Boy is questioned on Melbourne mystery tappings. Melbourne: Police investigating the mysterious nightly tappings on the walls of a house at Heidelberg for the past three weeks and stone-throwing on the roofs of other houses
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Port Louis, Mauritius (1937)
At 7 am on Monday, 21 September 1937, a stone fell on the roof of a bungalow in the rue Touraine, a street in Port Louis, a capital of the crowded little sub-tropical island of
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
Continue ReadingWorcester (1848)
A ghost in the nineteenth century! Serious gossip and old-womanish alarm appears to have existed for some time past in the regions of Carden-street, in this city, and at length to have established in the
Continue ReadingMagherintendry, Bushmills, County Antrim (1919)
“The talk of the town and district” – to use a familiar phrase – is about certain strange happenings of late at the residence and premises of Mr Thomas Elliott, joiner, Magherintendry. Within the past
Continue ReadingOrtona, Chieti, Italy (1925)
Power of Fairies. (By arrangement with London “Express.”) Rome, Saturday. – An attack of influenza left a girl of sixteen, named Emma Sharaglia, of Ortona, the possessor of psychic powers. She often falls into trances,
Continue ReadingEdinburgh (1890)
“Shadows around us.” To the Editor of the “People”. Sir, – Pardon me for taking the liberty of writing you, but as you have for some weeks past being amusing your readers with some very
Continue ReadingDes Moines, Iowa, USA (1874)
A Ghostly Story. A story of ghosts and ghostly manifestations is given to the world by an American paper, the Des Moines (Iowa) Register: “Ever since the Third-street spook raised such a rumpus, ghostly visitors
Continue ReadingPotchefstroom, South Africa (1906)
A ghost which is fond of children has taken possession of a farm in the Potchefstroom district of the Transvaal. It throws about the furniture, shakes and pinches the adult members of the family and
Continue ReadingPenzance, Cornwall (1888)
Ghost, Burglar or Mischievous Fun. It may not be generally known that in part of Penzance yclept Bread-street, better known, perhaps, as Back-lane, for a year or more a series of meetings have been held
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