Ghost Attracts Hundreds. Gives out spirit messages through medium of girl. Essex, Conn., Jan. 25. – A noisy ghost and a girl whom it evidently uses to communicate a wonderful assortment of spirit messages to
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Salford, Manchester (1960)
Knocking ghost disappears. Evening News Reporter. Mysterious bumping noises which were claimed to be spirit messages from a man dead, have disappeared from a Salford house after a service of exorcism by two Anglican priests.
Continue ReadingRochester, New York, USA (1886)
A Strange Affliction. The American papers report a strange story of the “unaccountable affliction of a Rochester boy,” the son of Leonard Westveer, a paper-hanger, who resides at 11, Huntington-street. Five weeks ago the boy
Continue ReadingNewark, New Jersey, USA (1887)
Spooks in Jersey. Newark Ghosts Draw Bigger Houses Than Hamlet’s Father. Invisible sledge hammers – bullet proof spirits – determined ghost hunters. Newark has a ghost story which is exciting the people of the lower
Continue ReadingAlbemarle County, Virginia, USA (1867)
Quite squatchy? (From the Scottsville Register) The Mysterious Affair at the House of Mr J. S. Moon. The following authentic, detailed and thrillingly interesting account of the mysterious affair at the residence of Mr John
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (1866)
A Haunted House. Readers of newspapers are seldom called upon to peruse detailed accounts of supernatural occurrences. Superstition went out as the printing press came in, and yet we have a plain, circumstantial account of
Continue ReadingNew York, USA (1887)
Mysterious flights of bottles. A despatch in the New York World on the 24th of June says – An old brick house on Four-and-a-Half street and Missouri avenue is said to be haunted. The building,
Continue ReadingCincinnati, Ohio, USA (1880)
Vexatious Spirits. About three miles northwest of town, there is a farm, known as the Zahller place, one of the oldest in the State, and owned by the heirs, one of whom occupies it. On
Continue ReadingGalena, Illinois, USA (1856)
Mysterious “rockings.” For some ten or twelve succeeding nights past, says the Galena ‘Advertiser’, the dwelling house of a respectable gentleman in this city has been assaulted with rocks and other missiles in a most
Continue ReadingMilo, Illinois, USA (1865)
Excitement at Milo, Ill. Some of the good people of Milo township have been greatly excited, during the past ten or twelve days, over some alleged “spiritual manifestations.” The scene of these disturbances is in
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