The ghost train of Ceylon. Phantoms on line at scene of smash. Incredible stories are told of weird happenings on the scene of the recent railway disaster at Kalutara, about 25 miles from Colombo, when
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Nedimala, Sri Lanka (1891)
Supernatural Phenomena. Considerable excitement is now prevailing at a village called Nedimala, near Dehiwala, owing to some supernatural phenomena taking place at a house there. The subject is being warmly discussed among the natives, and
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Comedy of a ghost. Family terrorised by bottle-throwing spook. Baby lost and recovered. Eye-witnesses story of events in a haunted house. The story of what may be fittingly styled a ghost comedy comes from sunny
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Family “Haunted” From Home. Shower of stones fall on the roof. Colombo. A poor family have been compelled to leave their house in a small village near Puttalam, because they said, supernatural manifestations worried them
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Ghost Story – that arrived on the heels of the Saxon sergeant -major (this page yesterday) came from Colombo, Ceylon. Inmates of a house in Nugegoday, Colombo suburb, have fled, shut the place up, because,
Continue ReadingGalle, Sri Lanka (1932)
Shower of Stones. Eerie Midnight Experience for Indian Hotel Guests. A mysterious rain of stones falls on the roof of a little hotel in Galle, Ceylon, for an hour each night. Exactly at midnight the
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