Ellore has produced a phenomenon which, on its occurrence in a house in Hydeville, New York State, 92 years ago, led to the formation of scientific societies in the United States and Great Britain for
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Udhagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, India (1897)
Spooks Pitch Rocks. They do in the champion ghost story from India. The police called in. They could do nothing and sent for a professional devil-driver to cure a ghost-a[…]ed girl. Madras, India, July 10.
Continue ReadingOngole, Andhra Pradesh, India (1870s)
Chapter 22. In School at Ongole. … A few years ago, when the missionaries returned home from a preaching-tour, they found all the young men and women in the normal and girls’ schools in great
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Superstition at Goa. The Ultromar devotes two columns of its space to narrate the exploits of a supposed devil, who threw stones over the roof and inside the building, and painted ugly figures on the
Continue ReadingShad Bagh, Lahore, India (1960)
Troubled house draws crowds. A local bank employee’s troubled house in Shad Bagh here has become a place of attraction for scores of spectators, who turn up in batches to witness the ‘magic doings’ of
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George Town, Chennai, India (1916)
We have received from a reader in India (Lt.-Col. S.T. Avetoom) a cutting from the “Madras Mail” giving an account of some poltergeist phenomena which a few weeks ago greatly disturbed the inmates of a
Continue ReadingMysuru, Karnataka, India (1936)
Ghostly Bombing. A nightly bombardment of stones on the roof of a house in Mysore (India) is terrifying numbers of the local residents, who attribute it to evil spirits. Every evening as soon as darkness
Continue ReadingKomal, Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India (1872)
Another Hindu Stone-Shower Medium. By T. Vijiaraghava Charlu, Esq., F.T.S. I am able to add, from personal experience, some additional facts respecting the phenomena of possession – or, as the Western people call it –
Continue ReadingDeoghar, Jharkhand, India (1897)
Pelting of stones by ghosts. Mahatma Sisir Kumar describes the following sensational incident in the ‘Hindu Spiritual Magazine’ of March, 1906: “Popular notion in India is that ghosts pelt stones and I had an ocular
Continue ReadingBhagalpur, India (1908)
Spiritual manifestation in a hospital. The following account of spontaneous spiritual manifestation going on that time in the Hanuman-nagar Hospital, Bhagalpur District, sent by the medical officer in charge of the hospital, a graduate of
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