Category: India

 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

 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 –

 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

 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

 One of those mysterious and uncomfortable stone-throwing phenomena, which the Spiritualists, if they were open to conviction, would angrily repudiate as the work of human spirits, has been occurring at Jalpaiguri, on the way to

 Three new poltergeist tales. The three following stories have all, I may say, come to me at first hand in the form in which they were written down by the eye-witnesses who describe the part

 “Kutti Sattan,” “little Sattan,” is a familiar spirit invoked in performing juggling tricks. The name is almost the same as the Hebrew word Satan, though there does not appear to be any philological connection between

Pondicherry is in a state of great excitement about the mysterious falling of brickbats in a house near Government House. Most of the local officials have made investigations but so far have failed to account