Category: USA

 A Genuine American Ghost Story. Newburg, N.Y., February 11th.  Sarah Maria Williams, six months ago died suddenly in the place known as Williamsburg and Pochuck, two miles south-west of this city. Her husband, Noah Williams,

 A Californian Ghost. There has been much excitement at Valetto about a noisy ghost which haunts a house there. A number of armed men have watched night after night for the supposed humbugger, but have

 The Vagaries of a Ghost. Harry Smith and his wife have moved from the Foy homestead, in Church Street, Mount Holly, New Jersey. They say they were forced to move because a ghost objected to

 Haunted houses, or – more correctly speaking – houses  reported by superstitious people to be haunted, are to be heard of in  many parts of the world; but the manner in which the ghosts are

 Admission to see a ghost. To make a round sum in dollars out of an apparition which declines to appear is worthy of Yankee cuteness. Mr Crocheron, of Staten Island has done it – and

 John Beall, of Waukon, Iowa, a man about 40 years of age, committed suicide recently, by swallowing a dose of rat poison. The immediate cause was a charming young widow, at whose feet he had

 Remnants of bricks among the stones that mysteriously fell one night not long ago at a negro settlement in Greensborough, Alaska, have convinced an editor of that locality, who conducted an investigation on his own

 A Ghost Among The Mormons. A Salt Lake correspondent of the New York World relates the following curious story under date of the 24th ult.:- A novelty in the line of spiritual manifestations occurred in

 A Girl of Strange Powers. Her mere presence causes a regular rumpus among furniture. There have been several remarkable stories of girls in America being the mysterious means of commotion around them, and now we

 An American Ghost Story. The Troy Press is responsible for the following ghost story: – There is a house standing on the old canal near Fort Ann, the family residing in which have frequently heard