Category: France

 “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

Furniture’s Mad Antics. Dancing plates and glasses that jumped. A strange story of a haunted house in Paris is told by the “Petit Parisien.” It is a flat in the Rue de Patay, in the

 Interviewing a Ghost. The announcement is gravely made that a ghost has been interviewed by a spiritualist ina  haunted house at Agen, in the Department of the Lot-et-Garonne, 73 miles from Bordeaux.  The phantom has

The ghostly season has been opened this year in the Rue de la Sourdiere, either by the same company of spirits who gave a series of performances in a different locality last winter or by

 A French Ghost. There is a ghost in Calais, or rank sorcery, or wicked powers of some sort working. In that town dwells a certain Topham, who keeps a factory. In front of the factory

 Strange Story of a Haunted House:  A peculiar ghost; blows from invisible hands. Some time ago Nice was in a ferment. A house in Le Port, at the foot of the quarries, in a terrace

 All Paris is at this moment astonished at a phenomenon in the streets – an inexplicable mystery exists that baffles the lynx-eyed police – all the populous quarter of St Genevieve, of the Sorbonne, and

A Haunted House. Since the curious affair of the Boulevard Voltaire we have heard little of haunted houses in Paris, but now comes a story from Arcueil, situated in the neighbourhood of the French capital,