Rockaway’s Ghost. It is addicted to smashing plate glass. A family terrified by threatening demonstrations in a lawyer’s country villa. The neighbours of the opinion that it is not a genuine spook. Most people consider
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Brooklyn, New York, USA (1879)
Trying to trap the ghost. Six days and nights of terror in a Brooklyn tenement. Listening to the profane and vulgar voice coming from the scuttle. Mrs Scott’s vain attempt at moral suasion – A
Continue ReadingChico, California, USA (1922)
Rock showers from sky mystify California town. Periodic downpour centres on warehouse, which is bombarded as investigators gaze. Chico, Calif., March 10. Showers of rock that fall “from the clouds” on a warehouse here have
Continue ReadingJonesville, Virginia, USA (1938)
Jonesville. Va., Dec. 23- ‘Bouncing Bed’ and Girl Who Continue to Quiver and Quake Despite Change in Quarters Baffle University Professors. A change in quarters for 9-year-old Bertha Marie Sybert, failed to interrupt or shed
Continue ReadingTrumann, Arkansas, USA (1941)
This is written rather like a story? Joking Ghost is Making Boy’s Life a Misery. From a New York Correspondent. A mysterious, unseen knocker has disrupted the home and school life of 11-year-old Loros Elledge.
Continue ReadingDallas, Texas, USA (1878)
An Inconsiderate Ghost. The trouble caused by the unpardonable interference of a ghost is thus described in a recent issue of the Dallas (Texas) Herald: “A strange domestic disturbance exists in a family whose place
Continue ReadingCairo, Illinois, U.S.A. (1880)
A mischievous ghost. A defunct railroad engineer’s pranks. The wild and mysterious run of an engine. Unpleasant experience of wipers in a pit, etc. Special Dispatch to the “Cincinnati Enquirer.” Vincennes, Ind., April 18. Your
Continue ReadingSt Louis, Missouri, USA (1889)
Haunted. The room in the Southern Hotel, St Louis, where Maxwell murdered Preller, and was afterwards arrested in Australia, brought home, tried and executed, is said to be haunted. The ‘Examiner’s’ St Louis dispatches of
Continue ReadingBrandy Station, Virginia, U.S.A. (1890)
The same journal [Golden Gate] gives an account of occurrences at Brady Station [sic] (Va.), U.S.A. On the plantation of John W. Brooks has taken place since last September that mysterious stone-throwing of which so
Continue ReadingEckhart Mines, Maryland, USA (1888)
Mysterious stone throwing. Cumberland, Md., special to the Baltimore Sun. For over a week past the family of Samuel Myers, at Eckhart, Alleghany county, have been annoyed by mysterious stone throwing, which took place at
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