An American Ghost. About five weeks since, a family residing at the west end of Boston were very much annoyed by strange and disagreeable noises, which occurred at different hours of the night, but especially
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Montgomery County, Ohio, USA (1871)
The Spirits Again. The celebrated story of the Cock-lane ghost has recently been eclipsed by mysterious doings at a farm-house in Montgomery County, Ohio. The owner, named Benjamin Stiver, has suffered so much, pecuniarily, from
Continue ReadingWestminster, Maryland, USA (1879)
Possessed by a ghost. Miss Toops, age fourteen, of Westminster, Md., sees at intervals a full-sized ghost – a man with a red face and sandy whiskers. Early in the summer there were rappings and
Continue ReadingSan Jose, California, USA (1876)
A Yankee Ghost. Mr Patrick W Reardon, of San Jose, in the United States, has every right to consider himself an ill-used man. For no fault of his own, he has been subjected to most
Continue ReadingUtica, New York, USA (1921)
Mysterious Bombardment. Unsuccessful efforts to detect the source of stone missiles. During the seven weeks that Mr and Mrs William Ashley and their family have been in their new residence, the lonely Gulf Road near
Continue ReadingRichardton, North Dakota, USA (1944)
Haunted Coal. Something very queer seems to have been happening in the Wild Plum school-house, 20 miles from the town of Richardton, North Dakota. There was a bucket of coal near the stove. Before the
Continue ReadingBuchanan, Virginia, USA (1871)
A Virginia Ghost. A letter has been received at Richmond, which gives an account of the most extraordinary operations of a supposed “ghost” at Buchanan, in Botetourt County, which has caused considerable excitement and alarm
Continue ReadingEdgefield, South Carolina, USA (1829)
The Edgefield Ghost. The Edgefield Carolinian, a paper published in South Carolina, at a town of that name, contains in its number of the 11th of July last, the following statement of facts, in relation
Continue ReadingChili, Rochester, New York, USA (1873)
A Yankee Ghost. The Spiritualists of America have become challenged, says the Standard, to investigate some ghostly manifestations in the townland of Chili, near Rochester, U.S. Some six months ago the owner of a house,
Continue ReadingSt Croix County, Wisconsin, USA (1873)
Ghost of a pair of scissors. There is always a haunted house somewhere. Few believe in the recital of wonders that happen in it, yet everybody reads the story. The most prominent of the haunted
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