Sportive Spooks. (Atlanta Constitution) Mr John Bauskett of Columbia is a good lawyer of long practice. He was United States commissioner here during the Cleveland administration. He is sedate, quiet and serious, and is one
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Gray’s Inn, London (1894)
Ghosts in Gray’s Inn. Some weeks ago strange pranks began to be played in certain houses of Field Court – it was when workmen commenced to busy themselves with the wall of an old house
Continue ReadingGreenfield, Tennessee, USA (1890)
History and Biography Ina Hayes The Cotton Girl A Wonderful Phenomenon Copyright 1891, by Marion Hayes. (Cairo, Illinois. Cairo Daily Telegram Print.) Introduction. In order to preserve the history of a wonderful case that has
Continue ReadingTarboro, North Carolina, USA (1890)
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
Continue ReadingPlainview, 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.
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