Category: France

 Stone-throwing by spirits in Paris. Out of the hundred and one cases of stone-throwing by spirits, the following, which has lately taken place in Paris, may be worthy of attention, principally because the manner in

 Shy of the microphone? Ghosts failed to operate on broadcast night. An attempt has just been made to broadcast the strange noises which ghosts are said to have been making for some time past at

 Although the working classes of Paris have very little belief in religion, they occasionally show that they have a lively horror of the supernatural. During the last few days, the inhabitants of a populous quarter

 A Ghost. After noticing that for some time the Chalet or Swiss cottage of M. Guttinguor, at St. Gatien, on the skirts of the Forest of Pennedepie, had been disturbed by strange and unaccountable noises,

 … At page 105 of Mr Owen’s volume, we have a most interesting account of disturbances occurring at the parsonage of Cideville, in the department of Sein Inferieure, France, in the winter of 1850-51. The

 “Spirited blows” Free fight about existence of a spook. A judge, an inspector of police, and the chief of the Grenoble (France) detective force interviewed a mysterious spirit at Grenoble. The ghost is a rapping

 Ghosts milk cows. Terror-stricken villages. The village of Norroy-le-Veneur, between Nancy and Metz, is in a state of terror (says a Central News Paris telegram). Ghosts are abroad which milk cows during the night, lock

 The curse of a family. Quite recently in France in one of the outskirts of Paris a rumour went quickly from mouth to mouth that a particular family was haunted, and it was said that

 Paris Gossip. Comedy of a ‘haunted’ house. From our correspondent. Paris, Thursday. There is perhaps a moral for your Society for Psychical Research in the following story. For some time the inhabitants of a house

 Haunted house mystery. An expert in radiology has been asked by the French police to help them try to clear up a  baffling “haunted house” mystery in the town of Montfort-sur-Meu, near Rennes. A short