Category: USA

 That’s odd! An insurance company has refused to pay for damage alleged to have been caused by a poltergeist at a warehouse in Miami, Florida. The firm says it does not insure against ghosts. The

 The Californian Ghost. Not to be outdone by the old country San Francisco has had a reproduction of the Cock-lane Ghost mystery. A committee of investigation is sitting with closed doors endeavouring to sift the

 Another providence, no less remarkable than this last mentioned, happened at Portsmouth in New England, about the same time: concerning which I have received the following account from a worthy hand. “On June 11, 1682,

 I proceed to give an account of some other things lately happening in New England, which were undoubtedly praeternatural, and not without diabolical operation. The last year did afford several instances, not unlike unto those

 The New York Sun of October 14th quotes the following from the San Francisco Chronicle –  Mysterious manifestations of recent occurrence at the dwelling, 933 Howard-street, have created something of a sensation, and form the

 A haunted servant girl! Milwaukee was thrown into a high state of excitement a few days since by the discovery of a haunted house – or, to speak more correctly, a haunted woman, as it

 Flying pots terrify holiday hamlet. From John Sampson. New York, Sunday. Flying saucers – not to mention flying cups, glasses, pots and pans – were terrifying 300 residents of a summer resort called “Resthaven” today.

 Ghostly phenomena in a house. A special to the New York World, dated Brandy Station, Virginia, Jan. 11, says the people on the plantation of John W. Brooks, near Culpeper Courthouse, have been thrown into

 A ghost on the “rampage”. It seems that a widow named Mrs Green, living at Springfield, Kentucky, has for some time past been pestered by the attentions of a ghost, who, with singular bad taste,

A Chesapeake Bay Ghost. A.F. Hudgins, assistant keeper at Wolf-Trap Light, Chesapeake bay, has resigned. Mr Hudgins wrote to Captain Evans, light house inspector, several weeks ago that his family, living on shore opposite the