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
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Chennai, 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
Continue ReadingHollingbourne, Kent (1930)
Hollingbourne Ghost. Unseen hand that flung coal and potatoes. Bangs at night. Following the sensation caused by the announcement that a Shoreham girl, Vera Obbard, was the object of attack of some ghost or spirit
Continue ReadingCoventry, West Midlands (1930)
Phantom Night Visitor. Tale of Haunted House in Midlands. Strange tappings and a phantom figure stated to have been seen in the middle of the night, have terrified a family occupying an old Coventry house
Continue ReadingSrbobran, Serbia (1934)
Town of Broken Windows. Yugoslav Mystery. For many months, night after night the citizens of Srbobran, a Yugoslav town, have been mystified by the vast number of windows smashed. The police have been unable to
Continue ReadingBeijing, China (1934)
Peiping Suspicions Aroused. Brick-tossing Ghost. Peiping, Oct. 1. Following a ten-night exhibition of supernatural skill, a brick-tossing ghost has quietly ceased his work and Peiping police and detectives are again pursuing their duties peacefully. At
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