We commend the following story to the notice of the National Association of Spiritualists. It may serve to revive their drooping spirits after the late disastrous exposure of the “disembodied” “Marie.” On Thursday night, January
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Truro, Cornwall (1880)
Truro. Alleged spirit-rapping at Truro. At the bottom of Fairmantle-street there resides a married couple named Prinn; the man works as a labourer at the smelting house, and was formerly a soldier. His wife has
Continue ReadingTrefeca, Powys (1888)
Disorderly Ghosts. Spiritual manifestations extraordinary. Strange story from Brecknockshire. A valued correspondent writes: I have just been informed by the Rev. W.J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist minister, of Lower House, near Trevecca, who was in a
Continue ReadingStaten Island, New York, USA (1881)
A Muscular Ghost. A painful feeling has been caused in Staten Island by a ghost which has been amusing itself every night by bombarding the houses of unoffending inhabitants with large stones. These mysterious attacks
Continue ReadingCooyal, New South Wales, Australia (1887)
Alleged Phenomenal Occurrences. From the Herald. Sydney, Wednesday. The Mudgee paper gives an account of a mysterious phenomenon in that locality. A farmer, named Large, residing in the vicinity of Cooyal, has reported to
Continue ReadingBethnal Green, London (1881)
Another “Cock-Lane Ghost.” At Worship-street police-court, London, Elizabeth Jeafferson, 16, a mulatto, described as a domestic servant in the employ of Mrs Susanah Jardine, has been charge with breaking a number of squares of glass,
Continue ReadingNew York, USA (1882)
A Circumstantial Ghost Story. A most circumstantial ghost story, which may interest the Psychical Society, is disturbing the mind of New York. The editor of the New York World vouches for the good faith of
Continue ReadingPlumstead, Greenwich, London (1880)
Mysterious Stone Throwing. A mysterious and diabolical case of stone-throwing occurred this week at the house of Mr Barber, 200, Maxey-road, Plumstead, where the whole of the windows in the rear of the house have
Continue ReadingArundel, West Sussex (1884)
Spiritualism at Arundel. Extraordinary proceedings are alleged to be happening in King-street, Arundel. In a cottage there resides a man named Clarke, a bricklayer in the service of the Duke of Norfolk, his wife and
Continue ReadingTiverton, Devon (1887)
A “ghost story” from Tiverton is to the effect that a family in the neighbourhood were alarmed by strange manifestations. Bells were unaccountably run in various parts of the house; the housemaid was summoned to
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