Category: France

 Elusive ghost that throws stones! Family alarmed by nocturnal exploits. From a Gazette correspondent. Paris. Sunday. A family living in a house near St Etienne, in Southern France, has been awakened every night for a

 Bewitched Farm? Strange French Story of Black Magic. A beggar’s curse. Witches and wizards are particularly busy in France just now. Following on revelations connected with the thrashing of the Abbe Desnoyers comes a new

Morlaix. Plouneour-Menez. Une ferme hauntee. Au village de Karranborn habite la famille Croguennec. Cette famille habite une tres grosse ferme; sa fortune s’eleve a 16,000 francs de rentes. Or, depuis plusieurs mois, une veritable terreur,

 Family to quit “haunted” house. Prefer camping to “unseen hands.” A farmer’s family who have been living in a “haunted house” near Toulon since last March have now decided to abandon the premises and to

 Goblins In Paris. To the Editor of the Morning Post.  Paris, August 22. Sir, The following singular specimen of the mysterious has just occurred in this City. I need not mention to you that it

 Mystery Noises in Lonely House. Violent Crash Answers Spiritualist’s Call. Moulins, Tuesday. Mysterious nocturnal rappings for many successive nights have disturbed both the peace of mind and the kitchen utensils of Mme. Adela Chassagnette, a

 A Young Witch. For the last three weeks an entire quarter of the town of Bordeaux has been thrown into a state of excitement, in consequence of a series of occurrences which seemed traceable to

 “Ghost” Pranks at Farm. Two Breton farmers, of La Cornonailles, have been terrified by a  mysterious agency, which let loose their cattle in the stalls and stirs them up to a highly agitated state, says

Rat-traps Set For ‘Ghost’. From our own correspondent, Paris, Thursday. Rat-traps have now been set by the police to catch the guitar-playing ghost of a guillotined man, believed by terrified peasants to have returned to

Spiritual Guerillas. A most lamentable comedy of spiritual guerilla war is waging its mysterious course at Cherbourg, where, says the “Newcastle Chronicle” correspondent, the ghosts are wreaking upon the procurator of the Republic the wrongs