The Hopfgarten Poltergeist Case. (Der Spuk in Hopfgarten. We have used the word Poltergeist in the title given because the case is of the type we usually classify under that name). The report which we
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Stronsay, Orkney (1791)
Mysterious noises. The common people of this district remain to this day so credulous, as to think that fairies do exist; that an inferior species of witchcraft is still practised, and that houses have been
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A recent Irish poltergeist. In connexion with the article in our last number on “A City of London Poltergeist”, we venture to submit, for what it is worth, the evidence of another case. It is
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A Convent Ghost. Haunted house of the Domininican Sisters. About a quarter of a mile east of the San Leandro railroad depot stands a convent conducted by the Dominican Sisters. The building is ancient, or,
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Drogheda, it seems, is possessed of a ghost, and the gentleman, for it takes the form of a man comfortably clad in a suit of pilot blue such as that favoured by the sailors, has
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Ghostbuster plea follows city ‘contact’. Jayne Williams is convinced her Swansea home is haunted after ‘making contact’ with the ghost of a girl who was thought to have been found dead in a cupboard at
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A ‘Haunted’ Cottage May Be Exorcised. From our Derby Correspondent. For more than a quarter of a century “ghosts” are said to have haunted a lonely cottage in the Derbyshire village of Longnor. But now
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Family blames high electricity bill on a ghost. By Ian Taylor. A family haunted by bumper electricity bills are refusing to pay up – claiming the huge charges are down to ghostly goings-on. Artist Bill
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