The same journal [Golden Gate] gives an account of occurrences at Brady Station [sic] (Va.), U.S.A. On the plantation of John W. Brooks has taken place since last September that mysterious stone-throwing of which so
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Alva, Jamaica (1890s)
The Reverend A.J.E. to whom repeated reference will be made was the Reverend Abraham J. Emerick, a Jesuit Missionary who took up work in Jamaica in 1895, at first in Kingston, and subsequently in the
Continue ReadingNedimala, Sri Lanka (1891)
Supernatural Phenomena. Considerable excitement is now prevailing at a village called Nedimala, near Dehiwala, owing to some supernatural phenomena taking place at a house there. The subject is being warmly discussed among the natives, and
Continue ReadingSan Jose, California, USA (1891)
Another Ghost. A rival to the South End sensation. The Bachelors’ Club visited. Mysterious and unexplainable occurrences – a door opened and a bed moved. The South-End is not destined to hold a monopoly on
Continue ReadingFresno, California, USA (1891)
Haunted Jail. Strange and unexplained phenomena. Experience of Sheriff Hensley and the Jailer. Theosophy may throw some light on the subject of midnight ghosts. At this age of scientific investigation, when all the phenomena of
Continue ReadingEdinburgh (1890)
“Shadows around us.” To the Editor of the “People”. Sir, – Pardon me for taking the liberty of writing you, but as you have for some weeks past being amusing your readers with some very
Continue ReadingDrogheda, County Louth (1890)
Drogheda, it seems, is possessed of a ghost, and the gentleman, for it takes the form of a man comfortably clad in a suit of pilot blue such as that favoured by the sailors, has
Continue ReadingSevenhampton, Wiltshire (1891)
Sevenhampton. Rural superstition: A haunted house. If credence may be given to the reports which have recently emanated from Sevenhampton, public schools, penny libraries, and the like have not yet destroyed the belief in supernatural
Continue ReadingYnyshir, Rhondda Cynon Taf (1893)
A ghostly visitant at Ynyshir. Extraordinary story. An Ynyshir correspondent writes: – The inhabitants of Ynyshir in general, and of 12, Whitting street, in particular, have been very much perturbed of late by the ghostly
Continue ReadingBirkhill, Angus (1899)
Alarmed by a ghost. An extraordinary story was current in Bo’ness on Saturday. A signalman at Birkhill, three and a half miles from the main line of the North British system to Edinburgh, on the
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