For several days past the family of Signor Pasquali, living in the Calle Goldoni, Venice, has been much upset by a series of mysterious happenings. Violent blows, repeated at long intervals, have made the walls
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Trento, Italy (1955)
Monkey business in bedroom. A circus monkey which has left a trail of disorder since it escaped in Trento, North Italy, last week, invaded a school-mistress’s Alpine home near Trento yesterday. It lined up all
Continue ReadingFlorence, Tuscany, Italy (1867)
During the last days of December, 1867, at No. 14 Ghibellina Street, in Florence, subterranean noises began to be heard, and sudden and startling blows in the table around which the family was seated. Dishes
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Five Haunted Children. A strange case of the supernatural in which four children who were separated were still pursued by “phantoms” is occupying the attention of spiritualist circles (says a Rome message). A man living
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Scandicci, Florence, Italy (1898)
Spiritualism in the Daily Papers. It is very certain that, as regards the attitude of the Press towards Spiritualism and the publicity willingly given to all matters connected with it, foreign journalism is far ahead
Continue ReadingMelito Irpino, Campania, Italy (1966)
Village brand girl, 9, as ‘witch’. Little Nicolina and ‘evil spirit’ start a panic. From Llyn Lewis, Rome, Saturday. Police have been sent to a tiny hamlet in Southern Italy to protect a girl of
Continue ReadingNaples, Italy (1905)
Ghostly Mysteries. The two Neapolitan villages of Arenella and Due Porte, in the Vomero region, have for some days been in a state of great superstitious excitement. The house, occupied by a widow, named Morea,
Continue ReadingMilan, Lombardy, Italy (1932)
Mysterious hail of missiles. Occurrences in Milan. A Milan family named Canziani has been thrown into great alarm by mysterious attacks, attributed, locally, to the spirit world, says the Milan correspondent of the Irish Independent.
Continue ReadingGenoa, Liguria, Italy (c. 1870s?)
Father Lucchesi’s second story has nothing directly to do with our present subject [poltergeists in the West Indies], but it is curious, and I trust that I may be excused for quoting his letter to
Continue ReadingTurin, Piedmont, Italy (1900)
Chapter VIII. Haunted Houses. The following case of a haunted house is of special interest, as it was observed by Professor Lombroso, whom no one would suspect an excess of credulity, or of being a
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