Category: Jamaica

 The Reverend A.J.E. to whom repeated reference will be made was the Reverend Abraham J. Emerick, a Jesuit Missionary who took up work in Jamaica in 1895, at first in Kingston, and subsequently in the

 Chapter 6. Poltergeist. It was about three years ago that Lord Olivier, a former Governor of Jamaica, wrote to me: “The occasional outburst of this ‘poltergeist’ phenomenon in Jamaica is remarkable. I investigated with some

 In 1917, at Carisbrook, in Jamaica, a young woman named Agnes Brooke was the victim. Large stones fell on her from the kitchen ceiling, just as oil fell at the rectory, and sudden fires borke

 Spectre’s Agency – or hallucination? Weird happenings attributed to the Duppy, the Jamaican ghost, or spectre, made an audience “creepy” in London yesterday. Eerie accounts of stone throwing which could not be traced to any