Category: USA

 Webster City, Iowa, Dec. 5  All Webster city, Iowa, is absorbed in a haunted house mystery. The house is No. 710 Boone street and is occupied by Mr and Mrs Jesse Black, their two children

 An American Ghost Story. About a year ago, says the Detroit Free Press, a house in the western part of the city was haunted by strange noises, and three or four families vacated, one after

 Witchcraft in Wisconsin. Sworn testimony of a farmer against an old German woman. Milwaukee,  July 26. A strange case has recenly occupied the attention of the Police Court in the village of Princeton, in this

 Raps of Spirits. We give the following account of doings in the United States, in a slight degree resembling those of our Cock-lane ghost, from F. Douglass’s North Star: –  Some time since, I do

 A Mystery! Some time back (says the Weekly News) we quoted from an American paper a statement regarding mysterious noises, sometimes like those of the Cock-lane ghost, heard by many persons, and produced without any

 That’s odd! An insurance company has refused to pay for damage alleged to have been caused by a poltergeist at a warehouse in Miami, Florida. The firm says it does not insure against ghosts. The

 The Californian Ghost. Not to be outdone by the old country San Francisco has had a reproduction of the Cock-lane Ghost mystery. A committee of investigation is sitting with closed doors endeavouring to sift the

 Another providence, no less remarkable than this last mentioned, happened at Portsmouth in New England, about the same time: concerning which I have received the following account from a worthy hand. “On June 11, 1682,

 I proceed to give an account of some other things lately happening in New England, which were undoubtedly praeternatural, and not without diabolical operation. The last year did afford several instances, not unlike unto those

 Haunted Houses. Formerly every village in New England could boast of one or more of these favoured tenements. I have, nevertheless, seen several of a most unchristian reputation in this respect, old, black, and unseemly,