“The Invisible Hand” Hyderabad, Nov. 30. – A man here has reported to the police, that stones and bricks are hurled into his house off and on through a ventilator, by an “invisible hand.” He
Continue ReadingCategory: 1950s
Askam, Cumbria (1954)
Queer happenings at a haunted house in Askam. “Happy” Harry Hodgson is searching for a spiritualist to rid his four-roomed 90-years-old home at Askam of the “ghosts” which have been plaguing his family for the
Continue ReadingNelson, Lancashire (1950s)
Letters to the Editor. The Strange Things Which Happened in Clayton St. Sir, – I was very interested in Geoffrey Mattock’s account of local ghosts, and I would like to give the readers of the
Continue ReadingKarachi, Pakistan (1951)
House Stoned. The Karachi Police are literally baffled at the 17-day long mysterious phenomenon of stone throwing on the corrugated tin sheet roofs of the residence of Mr Gulam Nabi, Administrative Officer in the Central
Continue ReadingTrento, Italy (1955)
Monkey business in bedroom. A circus monkey which has left a trail of disorder since it escaped in Trento, North Italy, last week, invaded a school-mistress’s Alpine home near Trento yesterday. It lined up all
Continue ReadingKirkcaldy, Fife (1958)
(This is next door to a case from 1972). The ‘ghost’ house children must stay. Seven children who scream with fright at the thought of sleeping in their own house were refused admission to a
Continue ReadingKirkcaldy, Fife (1972)
Family flees the choking terror. An Indian family of seven fled from their Kirkcaldy home in the early hours of Tuesday morning claiming that the house was haunted. The “presence of spirits” in their Corporation
Continue ReadingItapura, Sao Paulo, Brazil (1959)
Here is a story witnessed by authorities who wish that they did not have to admit to the truth of it! Poltergeist’s on the prowl. One of the most outstanding and sustained cases of poltergeistic
Continue ReadingKampong Tebok Mufrat, Malaysia (1954)
Grandma plagued by merry spook. Teluk Anson, Mon. A poltergeist that has plagued Grandmother Mor binte Ma’on of Kampong Tebok Mufarat in north-west Selangor for almost two months, is on the war path again, after
Continue ReadingSingapore (1951)
$100 to drive off a ghost. Fed up with the pranks of a poltergeist, a Chinese family living off Kim Keat Road in Singapore have spent more than $100 for the services of an exorcist
Continue Reading