‘Poltergeist’ riddle of boy’s hospital room. From Laurence Wilkinson: Rome. Doctors and students of the occult have been studying the strange goings-on in the sick room of a nine-year-old Sardinian boy. The trouble started in
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St Charles, Virginia, USA (1939)
“Ghost” makes bed bounce. Girl bewitched, thinks father. St. Charles, Virginia. All the farmers for miles around gathered in the wooden shack where Frank Sybert’s nine-year-old daughter is having trouble with a ghost or a
Continue ReadingRiverchapel, County Wexford (1905)
A Ghost Story. A real ghost story comes from near Riverchapel. A resident avers that he is nightly troubled with a ghost which is of the unseen, but outlandishly noisy description, its heavy footfalls resounding
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Four “haunted” people move to parish hall. A family of four moved their beds into a parish hall last night – because they did not want to spend another sleepless night in their three-bedroomed council
Continue ReadingRotherham, South Yorkshire (1986)
Riddle of a home that goes bump in the night. A phantom tapper is driving Albert and Ivy Cardwell up the wall. They say the drumming noise each night on their bedroom wall is causing
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Priest to bless a haunted house. Apparition in clerical garb. Family terrified. “It is my intention to go to the house to call God’s blessing upon it. I shall bless the house by sprinkling holy
Continue ReadingBrighouse, West Yorkshire (1985)
November 8. A medium has been called in to investigate a spirit haunting an old house in the centre of Brighouse. A series of mysterious, unexplained events have been happening at the house at 5
Continue ReadingMaughold, Isle of Man (1848)
Manx Belief in Ghosts. A Douglas paper states that the windows of the house of Mr Quayle of Maughold having been broken, and all means for discovering the parties having proved fruitless, nothing will convince
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In connection with this mysterious affair [the 1839 Dover case], the following statement will not be uninteresting:- About three years ago Mr Beal, a surgeon residing in Dover, heard a knocking against the partition of
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Ghost haunts humble home. Annoys family and mystifies policemen by mysterious rappings and outlandish noises. Chicago – There is a ghost in town. He has put part of Chicago’s police force to flight and he
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