Category: France

Police Hunt Ghost Stone-throwing at night From our own correspondent, Avignon, Sunday. Thirty men armed with rifles are helping the police to scour the countryside round the village of St. Victor for a stone-throwing ghost.

 Flying Coal and Iron. Police investigate at “Haunted House.” Despite police surveillance of a “haunted” house in Lyons, where strange happenings have been reported recently, the curious manifestations continue. No one – material or immaterial

 There is a ghost, and, what is more remakable, a noisy ghost, playing high jinks in a house in the Avenue de Saxe, at Lyons. It is not often that a rowdy specimen of the

 France. M. Raymond Duplantier, a barrister of Poitiers, has made a study of a haunted house at Yzeures, in Touraine. Properly speaking, it is not the house which is haunted, but the family which inhabits

Rivals to Ghost Lively Scenes at Haunted House Paris, Sunday. The haunted house of Versailles in the Rue Baillet is a popular success. The day before yesterday 200 visitors came between ten and midnight, and

Another French Ghost Story. Just as many Parisians are packing their boxes for a stay on the skirts of the health-giving forest of Fontainebleur the news came that Beelzebub, or a ghost of diabolical tendencies,

 Rustic Superstition. A queer haunted house story comes from the village of Agny, near Arras. In the commune lives a family of small peasant proprietors, named Caron, which is just now full of tragio-comic misery.

 Exorcising a Ghost. The following curious tale is from the Journal de Rouen of the 29th ult.: – “A quiet couple, named Lemoine, living in this neighbourhood, where they carried on the trade of basket-makers,

The Haunted House Curious affair reported from Ronquerolles. The special correspondent of “Le Journal,” writing from Clermont, says: – There is no doubt that the hamlet of Ronquerolles, near Clermont-de-l’Oise, is fast becoming a place