Spooks go on strike after a 3-day revel. Quit throwing household furnishings and pulling hairpins from woman’s head. Newark, N.J. – Mr and Mrs Stanislaus Lysaj are getting weary of being haunted. After a three-day
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Venice, Italy (1910)
For several days past the family of Signor Pasquali, living in the Calle Goldoni, Venice, has been much upset by a series of mysterious happenings. Violent blows, repeated at long intervals, have made the walls
Continue ReadingJauja, Peru (1916)
This was the finest job I ever had, a roving commission to travel all over Peru and examine everything that looked like a mine… I was twenty-seven years old when I got this promotion, and
Continue ReadingAlbouystown, Georgetown, Guyana (1913)
Haunted House Nightly Fusillade of Bricks and Bottles Detectives baffled. Pelted at by some unknown person or persons with jugs and bottles as the residents at lot 23 Hogg Street, Albouytown [sic] have been for
Continue ReadingPort of Spain, Trinidad (1919)
A Mysterious Affair. Mysterious Stoning. The police at fault. Considerable excitement prevailed in Dundonald Street on Tuesday evening when it became known that a house was being pelted with stones and nobody was able to
Continue ReadingSpalding, Lincolnshire (1919 and previously)
Haunted House in Spalding District. Singular manifestations. Clock jumps from the mantelpiece. By “Hathart”. In these days when so much talk of spiritualistic manifestations makes the hair stand on end, and the thoughtful reader is
Continue ReadingCoaltown of Balgonie, Fife (1917)
“Ghost in Balgonie.” Quite a sensation has been caused during the last week in the village by what is now known locally as the “knocker”. It appears that in one of the houses in Lady
Continue ReadingDublin (1912)
Some very remarkable manifestations that agree in many points with the curious happenings in a house in Court street, Enniscorthy, some little time ago, are causing considerable comment in one of the Dublin residential districts.
Continue ReadingKingston Deverill, Wiltshire (c1915)
A ghost returns to his old haunt. Western Daily Press Reporter. Things have been going bump in the night down Warminster way lately – and it now seems that a ghost is working overtime on
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George Town, Chennai, India (1916)
We have received from a reader in India (Lt.-Col. S.T. Avetoom) a cutting from the “Madras Mail” giving an account of some poltergeist phenomena which a few weeks ago greatly disturbed the inmates of a
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