Ghostly Bombing. A nightly bombardment of stones on the roof of a house in Mysore (India) is terrifying numbers of the local residents, who attribute it to evil spirits. Every evening as soon as darkness
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Chesterfield, Derbyshire (1936)
Police vigil in “haunted” house. Tappings and dislodged ornaments. Chesterfield police have been called to assist in solving the mystery of strange occurrences in certain cottages in Spencer-street, off Newbold-road Chesterfield. For some time past
Continue ReadingGuadalajara, Mexico (1930s?)
This could be a tale, but it has a location and relative detail. And it happens in January! Mexican Ghost Stories. By Douglas Grahame. […] Guadalajara is the location of a queer house. The dwelling
Continue ReadingMilan, Lombardy, Italy (1932)
Mysterious hail of missiles. Occurrences in Milan. A Milan family named Canziani has been thrown into great alarm by mysterious attacks, attributed, locally, to the spirit world, says the Milan correspondent of the Irish Independent.
Continue ReadingJonesville, Virginia, USA (1938)
Jonesville. Va., Dec. 23- ‘Bouncing Bed’ and Girl Who Continue to Quiver and Quake Despite Change in Quarters Baffle University Professors. A change in quarters for 9-year-old Bertha Marie Sybert, failed to interrupt or shed
Continue ReadingChennai, Tamil Nadu, India (1872)
Three new poltergeist tales. The three following stories have all, I may say, come to me at first hand in the form in which they were written down by the eye-witnesses who describe the part
Continue ReadingGrenada (1934)
A West Indian Poltergeist. Some few weeks since I received a kind letter from Father Aldhelm Bowring, O.P., telling me that he had read some of the articles published in these pages, and that he
Continue ReadingDalby, Isle of Man (1930s)
Weasel says it can talk. But people won’t believe it. Farm noises. From our own correspondent. Peel (Isle of Man), Sunday. Peel, Isle of Man, has been divided into two camps – by a 100
Continue ReadingBloemfontein, South Africa (1930)
Stoned by a spirit. Followed him when he flitted. Nobody has seen thrower. Neither detectives nor a witch doctor have been able to solve the mystery of the stoning of a white man by a
Continue ReadingRoehampton, Jamaica (1931)
Chapter 6. Poltergeist. It was about three years ago that Lord Olivier, a former Governor of Jamaica, wrote to me: “The occasional outburst of this ‘poltergeist’ phenomenon in Jamaica is remarkable. I investigated with some
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