Beds that walk. Remarkable occurrences in “haunted” house. Paris, Tuesday. Beds that walk about the house, vases that break themselves against the wall, keys that disappear and reappear, apples and bread that leap off their
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Seyssuel, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (1930)
Have you read the news about the latest French ghost? He is a mysterious thing operating on a farm in the [?]. The farm is situated at Roche[piquet?] in the Commune of Seyssuel. If the
Continue ReadingParis, France (1891)
Haunted houses are going out of fashion even in periodicals brought out especially for Christmas – a period of the years when stories of the kind used to be far more plentiful than they are
Continue ReadingApt, Avignon and Provence, France (1935)
She wanted a new house So she pretended it was haunted. The “ghost” of a haunted house at Apt, near Avignon, has been “laid,” but not before it had created a considerable sensation in the
Continue ReadingDinan, Brittany, France (1904)
A haunted chateau. Malicious injuries by the ghost. Paris, Wednesday. For the last fortnight there have been mysterious happenings at the Chateau de Taden, near Dinan, in Brittany. A large party had been invited there
Continue ReadingBrasparts, Britanny, France (1949)
Villagers hunt for ‘ghost’. Solve farm mystery. Brasparts (Brittany), Tuesday. Two hundred villagers with shotguns and pitchforks helped the police last night to lay “ghosts” haunting farmer Henri Jeffre’s farmhouse. The “ghosts” turned out to
Continue ReadingSaint-Michel-de-Maurienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (1912)
A Haunted House. Mysterious phenomena near Paris. (From our own correspondent). Paris, Feb. 11. I have already mentioned at different times the growing interest shown in spiritism and psychic phenomena. Today the growing number of
Continue ReadingPontivy, Brittany, France (1922)
Shepherd Girl “Ghost.” Pranks of child of fourteen annoy whole village. For some time the inhabitants of the little Brittany village of Pontivy have been annoyed by what were locally described as ghosts. These ghosts
Continue ReadingSaint-Martin-de-I’lf (?), Rouen, Normandy, France (1897)
“An alleged haunted house.” What the Paris correspondent of the “Morning Post” cautiously describes as “an alleged haunted house” is to be found just now in a village near Rouen, named St Martin-en-Campagne. The house
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In these days of modern incredulity accounts of haunted houses are usuallly treated with laughter and contempt, but the inhabitants living in the district round the Castle of Coudraie in France are still inclined to
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