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
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Paris, France (1913)
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
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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
Continue ReadingParay-le-Monial, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (1927)
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
Continue ReadingSeyssuel, 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
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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
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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
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