A Karachi Poltergeist. Showers of stones at a funeral. From our correspondent, Karachi, July 6th. A midnight Hindu religious ceremonial feast in a Karachi building on Saturday, in mourning for a child drowned in a
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Genoa, Liguria, Italy (1930)
Girl Hoaxes a Town. Wall pulled down in ghost hunt. From our own correspondent, Rome, Monday. A 17-year-old girl servant started a ghost hunt in Genoa which lasted for five days and hoaxed: squads of
Continue ReadingTay Valley?, Ontario, Canada (1935)
Mounties can’t get their ghost. Flat irons that ‘walked’ down stairs. Windows smashed. Such curious things have been happening in the little farmhouse of Mr John Quinn, at Burgess Township (Ontario) that the Canadian Mounted
Continue ReadingPetersfield, Hampshire (1930)
A Petersfield Mystery. Much ghostly tapping. Vicar and police chief hear it. Hidden money theory. What is presumed to be a tapping spirit is haunting a house at 22, Chapel Street, Petersfield, occupied by Mr.
Continue ReadingSaint-Auvent, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France (1937)
Rat-traps Set For ‘Ghost’. From our own correspondent, Paris, Thursday. Rat-traps have now been set by the police to catch the guitar-playing ghost of a guillotined man, believed by terrified peasants to have returned to
Continue ReadingHull, East Yorkshire (1939)
“Haunted House” Mystery Terrifies Hull Children. Hull has a “haunted” house. In it, during the past month, there have been, night after night, mysterious knockings, tappings, scratchings – and even mattress bouncing – until the
Continue ReadingGalle, Sri Lanka (1932)
Shower of Stones. Eerie Midnight Experience for Indian Hotel Guests. A mysterious rain of stones falls on the roof of a little hotel in Galle, Ceylon, for an hour each night. Exactly at midnight the
Continue ReadingFleetwood, Lancashire (1933)
The Mystery of No. 13. Uncanny House at Fleetwood. Woman’s Appeal to Council. This is the mystery of No. 13, which is believed to be an unlucky number, according to a Fleetwood family. Uncanny noises
Continue ReadingBirkenhead, Merseyside (1931)
Household Haunted By Demons. Terrified Occupants. Phantom Whisperings. Birkenhead is bewildered by amazing happenings in a house said to be haunted by demons. According to stories told by members of the family in this house
Continue ReadingGolders Green, Barnet, London (1938)
London Ghost Plays Piano (Organ Effects). A ghost which has already driven out the lodgers is now driving a widow and her 23-year-old daughter from their home in Golders Green, N.W. For three months they
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