Spooks go on strike after a 3-day revel. Quit throwing household furnishings and pulling hairpins from woman’s head. Newark, N.J. – Mr and Mrs Stanislaus Lysaj are getting weary of being haunted. After a three-day
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Morrow, Ohio, USA (1890)
Exorcising a Ghost with Holy Water. For some time there has been a great deal of talk regarding a haunted house which stands on the Oregonia and Harveysburg pike, about eight miles from Morrow, O.
Continue ReadingMilford, Delaware, USA (1877)
Another Big Ghost Yarn. A Big Scare Near Milford. The Milford News of Friday publishes this statement: A family living on the road between Milford and Farmington, has been the centre of a great neighbourhood
Continue ReadingSan Francisco, California, USA (1897)
Occult forces seem to throw the soap bars. The startling and mysterious manifestations continue in evidence at the Mission-Street factory. Detectives are all puzzled. Sleuths admit that it is beyond their comprehension. Queer gyrations of
Continue ReadingValley Furnace, West Virginia, USA (1893)
Strength of a Sandow. [*Sandow was a famous strongman] Athletic pranks of a West Virginian spook. It haunts a grist mill and plays with ponderous tools and missiles. “Capable as the Devil.” From the St
Continue ReadingMiddletown, New York, USA (1901)
Ghost abhors onion smell. Strange events at a farmhouse attributed to spirits. Middletown, N.Y., March 1. A strenuous ghost that abhors the smell of onions is in full possession of a house in a little
Continue ReadingBowling Green, Ohio, USA (1902)
Strange disturbances in village attributed to spirits. Republic special. Bowling Green, O., Dec. 19. The family of Eugene Sly, residing on a farm west of this city, are greatly exercised over repeated but unaccountable demonstrations
Continue ReadingSt. Louis, Missouri, USA (1876)
does rather smack of a story as is told like that with no names? A haunted house. (From the “St Louis Globe-Democrat.” [a Missouri paper]) In one of the most pleasant and aristocratic localities of
Continue ReadingMill Creek, Illinois, USA (1871)
Strange Phenomena. At this age of the world the public is not expected to give credence to every ghost story and haunted house report in circulation; but we have just received from a reliable source
Continue ReadingLewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA (1889)
We had our doubts as to the truth of the article published in last week’s ‘Post’ from a Union county paper describing the strange manifestations at the funeral of Mrs Wm. Searls of Lewisburg, but
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