Mysterious knocking and ringing continued for three years – the police baffled. The correspondent of the Revue Spirite relates, that at Ulm, in Bavaria, spirits have persistently disturbed the town by loud rapping on one
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Komal, Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India (1872)
Another Hindu Stone-Shower Medium. By T. Vijiaraghava Charlu, Esq., F.T.S. I am able to add, from personal experience, some additional facts respecting the phenomena of possession – or, as the Western people call it –
Continue ReadingThe Hague, Netherlands (1871)
I will close by giving some particulars about a case which came under my own observation (M.A.J. Riko, of the Hague, a well-known gentleman of great education, whose name is familiar to many people in
Continue ReadingCumminsville, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (1870)
Stones thrown by spirits. Andrew Streit, says the Cincinnati Gazette, is the name of a moderately well-to-do farmer who resides near Cumminsville, on the western side of that limpid stream, Mill Creek, and who is
Continue ReadingBrooklyn, New York, USA (1879)
Trying to trap the ghost. Six days and nights of terror in a Brooklyn tenement. Listening to the profane and vulgar voice coming from the scuttle. Mrs Scott’s vain attempt at moral suasion – A
Continue ReadingThames, New Zealand (1872)
A Haunted House at the Thames. For some days past (says the Thames Evening Star) rumours have reached us that certain very strange occurrences, or manifestations (as the Spiritists call them), have been going on
Continue ReadingDallas, Texas, USA (1878)
An Inconsiderate Ghost. The trouble caused by the unpardonable interference of a ghost is thus described in a recent issue of the Dallas (Texas) Herald: “A strange domestic disturbance exists in a family whose place
Continue ReadingGenoa, Liguria, Italy (c. 1870s?)
Father Lucchesi’s second story has nothing directly to do with our present subject [poltergeists in the West Indies], but it is curious, and I trust that I may be excused for quoting his letter to
Continue ReadingJulia Creek, South Australia (1876)
This account is quoted from the Harbinger of Light, Melbourne. Stone-throwing by spirits in Australia. By A Mueller, M.D. Amongst the varied phenomena of Spiritualism, not the least interesting are those spontaneous “unimplored” tokens of
Continue ReadingTrinidad (1870s?)
That examples of poltergeist in the West Indies are not restricted to Jamaica is evidenced by the testimony of Sir Hesketh Bell, and we cannot better close the present chapter than by giving at length
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