‘Ghost’ Boy Has Quiet Weekend. Kuala Lumpur, Mon. – The 12-year-old “ghost” boy Chai Loong Kong has had his first peaceful weekend in three months. For days he had been pestered by a poltergeist who
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Kampung Seberang, Malaysia (1950)
Ghost follows girl. F.P. Malay Correspondent. A ghost which the medicine man of Kampong Ulu Seberang Perak, Alor Star, identified as a “jin tanah” or a “land genie” is terrorising the villagers there, Utusan Melayu
Continue ReadingMiri, Malaysia (1958)
A stone-throwing ‘ghost’ injures 20 people. Showers of ‘pebbles from heaven’ fall on workers. Priest called in to get rid of intruding spirit. Kuching, Thursday. A shower of stones believed to have been thrown by
Continue ReadingBanda Hilir, Malacca, Malaysia (1959)
Mystery incidents in a Malacca village. Poltergeist or pranksters? Malacca, Thurs. – Weird happenings were reported to have taken place last week at Kampong Bandar Hilir, in the heart of Malacca Town. Two adjoining houses
Continue ReadingHeidelberg, Melbourne, Australia (1950)
Boy is questioned on Melbourne mystery tappings. Melbourne: Police investigating the mysterious nightly tappings on the walls of a house at Heidelberg for the past three weeks and stone-throwing on the roofs of other houses
Continue ReadingSurabaya, Indonesia (1950)
The Surabaja Poltergeist. Instances of poltergeist phenomena, especially those which are carefully observed and reported, are relatively infrequent. (A poltergeist – literally a “noisy ghost” – is the term used to describe noises, the hurling
Continue ReadingGujar Khan, Punjab, Pakistan (1951)
Ghost fire scares Gujarkhan. Rawalpindi, Oct. 30 (App). What has been described by spiritualists as a diabolical work of some evil spirit, who have made a 12-year-old girl’s body as their repository, a ghost fire,
Continue ReadingTarbes, Hautes-Pyrenees, France (1958)
Le savon se desintegre chez un ancien gendarme. Tarbes, 28 fevrier. “En tant qu’homme de science, je ne puis rien car je ne comprends pas ce qui se produit,” a declare le docteur Carriere, qui
Continue ReadingNigel, South Africa (1957)
Nigel, Transvaal: Police in this small farming town, about 40 miles from Johannesburg, have arrested an African woman on charges of practising witchcraft, and have called in a witch-doctor to help with the case. The
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No solution found to mystery of west coast’s ‘haunted house’. Victoria, B.C. – (BUP) – The ghosts of Glamis Castle and the Tower of London would be hard-pressed to match the mysterious happenings at the
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