Category: Italy

 In March, 1864, the attention of the Genevese public was attracted to the case of a young girl residing in Hospital Street, who for several weeks was followed by the phenomena of loud poundings and

 An Italian Poltergeist. It is not surprising to hear of a “poltergeist” in South Italy, where everybody believes in the occult. A shopkeeper at Palagoria named Ansorio has been troubled for a long time past

 Psychic phenomena in Italy. (By “Echo” private wire). For some time past it is declared (says the Rome correspondent of the “Globe”) strange phenomena have been observed in the village of Isola, not far from

 Furniture Dances. Police baffled by eerie occurrences. Rome, Saturday. Eerier than a story by De Maupassant have been the experiences of an Italian family in their new home. The building is situated in a highly-respectable

 Dante’s Haunted House. The papers of Florence are full of comments on the report that the house where the great Dante Alighieri lived is haunted by ghosts. The premises are occupied now by a blacksmith,

 Genoa’s Affluent Ghost. Mysterious shedding of copper and silver. From our own correspondent. Genoa, Wednesday. – Genoa has its ghost, with this peculiarity – that people run after it instead of fleeing for their lives.

Rome. From our own correspondent. Rome, March 28th. Our latest novelty is a “haunted-house,” a house possessed with a legion of spirits, that knock about in all directions, and make the walls and ceilings shake,

 City nanny held on cot death bid. By Bob Dow. A young Aberdeen nanny is being held in an Italian jail accused of attempting to murder a three-year-old girl. And the mother of 20-year-old Carol

 Ghosts in a Castle. At a manorial castle near Castelnuovo, says a correspondent of the Daily News in Lodi, there has taken place since August a series of spiritualistic phenomena which has frightened the superstitious