The Hopfgarten Poltergeist Case. (Der Spuk in Hopfgarten. We have used the word Poltergeist in the title given because the case is of the type we usually classify under that name). The report which we
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Resau, Brandenburg, Germany (1889)
Laying a ghost. The uneasy spirit that exercised itself within a veritable haunted house in Germany has just been very effectively “laid,” and that not by any canonical or uncanonical form of exorcism, but by
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Prince Bismarck’s estate of Friedrichsruhe, in Lauenburg, Northern Prussia, is, says the Graphic, troubled by ghosts. Most mysterious noises and visions haunt one of the chief foresters’ lodges, flaming swords strangely appear, and spirits rap
Continue ReadingMunich, Germany (1897)
Strange case at Munich. The following case, which seems scarcely possible at the end of the nineteenth century, occurred on Tuesday at Munich. In a house in the Parkstrasse the parish priest of St Benno
Continue ReadingRosenheim, Germany (1967)
The Rosenheim Case 1967-68. At the end of November, 1967, inexplicable events were reported in the German press to be taking place in a lawyer’s office in the Bavarian town of Rosenheim. Electric bulbs exploded,
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Family Ghosts. Interesting German Case. Australian Press Association. Berlin, November 21. The interesting question whether a tenant has the right to keep family ghosts at present is before the Civil Court. The ghost of an
Continue ReadingOppenheim, Germany (1620)
Chapter XLII. On the apparitions of spirits who imprint their hands on clothes or on wood. Within a short time, a work composed by a Father Premontre, of the Abbey of Toussaints, in the Black
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Exorcising the ghost of Treves. After the Holy Coat comes the ghost – in Treves, at any rate. Last autumn a rumour gained currency that a house in that city was haunted. Every evening the
Continue ReadingKonstanz, Germany (1820)
Caution to Journeymen Printers. The following curious story is gravely stated in a French paper: – Towards the close of the last year loud groans and sighs were repeatedly heard to issue from a corner
Continue ReadingBerlin, Germany (1950)
“Ghost” does overtime on Sundays. Berlin, Thursday. British troops in Berlin have lent the German police a special amplifier to help pin down a “knocking ghost” which has terrified the inhabitants of a tenement in
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