The Mysterious Knockings. Raleigh, N.C., April 6. – There is the greatest sensation at Tarboro ever known in the history of that town, or in that part of the State. A few nights past strange
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Plainview, Minnesota, USA (1895)
Unusual Physical Phenomena. By Jane R Griffing. The following record is by a lady who was well known to Dr Richard Hodgson and whom he regarded as a competent witness. He reported from her several
Continue ReadingMorrow, Ohio, USA (1890)
Exorcising a Ghost with Holy Water. For some time there has been a great deal of talk regarding a haunted house which stands on the Oregonia and Harveysburg pike, about eight miles from Morrow, O.
Continue ReadingSan Francisco, California, USA (1897)
Occult forces seem to throw the soap bars. The startling and mysterious manifestations continue in evidence at the Mission-Street factory. Detectives are all puzzled. Sleuths admit that it is beyond their comprehension. Queer gyrations of
Continue ReadingValley Furnace, West Virginia, USA (1893)
Strength of a Sandow. [*Sandow was a famous strongman] Athletic pranks of a West Virginian spook. It haunts a grist mill and plays with ponderous tools and missiles. “Capable as the Devil.” From the St
Continue ReadingChoctaw County, Alabama, USA (1895)
Halo about a child. Strange manifestations at a country house in South Alabama. Noise like that of a train. Approaching the house – The ticking on the roof – A child enveloped in a halo
Continue ReadingUdhagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, India (1897)
Spooks Pitch Rocks. They do in the champion ghost story from India. The police called in. They could do nothing and sent for a professional devil-driver to cure a ghost-a[…]ed girl. Madras, India, July 10.
Continue ReadingSlaithwaite, West Yorkshire (1898)
Slaithwaite’s latest mystery And its solution. There have, in the past, been manifold mysteries in the domain of Slaithwaite, but the one of the past week has broken all records, for the magician has not
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Scandicci, Florence, Italy (1898)
Spiritualism in the Daily Papers. It is very certain that, as regards the attitude of the Press towards Spiritualism and the publicity willingly given to all matters connected with it, foreign journalism is far ahead
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Laroche-en-Brenil, Cote-d’Or, France (1898)
‘L’Echo du Merveilleux’ reprints from the ‘Bien Public,’ a Dijon paper, the detailed account of another ‘Poltergeist’ case. From the 19th to the 27th of March, manifestations of a violent and destructive character have taken
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