Category: France

 Spooks and Bogies in Flanders. In the villages adjoining Dunkirk, and in the streets adjacent to the harour, where the sailors and their families reside, supernatural agencies and manifestations are firmly believed in. Certain old

 Four police try to catch noisy ghost. London, Sat. Four members of the French police force are trying to catch a poltergeist which is disturbing farmers in the war-damaged village of Solesmes, near Lille. A

 Troublesome ghosts. There is now reported to be a haunted house at Aubigny la Ronce, near Dijon. It is occupied by the Gerard family, who are kept awake regularly every night by most obstreperous ghosts,

 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

A Haunted House. A queer story of a haunted house comes from Grenoble. Every night, starting at ten o’clock, a loud knocking is heard in the flat occupied by Mme. Masson. At first the neighbours

 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