Category: USA

 Haunted houses, or – more correctly speaking – houses  reported by superstitious people to be haunted, are to be heard of in  many parts of the world; but the manner in which the ghosts are

 Admission to see a ghost. To make a round sum in dollars out of an apparition which declines to appear is worthy of Yankee cuteness. Mr Crocheron, of Staten Island has done it – and

 John Beall, of Waukon, Iowa, a man about 40 years of age, committed suicide recently, by swallowing a dose of rat poison. The immediate cause was a charming young widow, at whose feet he had

 Remnants of bricks among the stones that mysteriously fell one night not long ago at a negro settlement in Greensborough, Alaska, have convinced an editor of that locality, who conducted an investigation on his own

 The American ghost is a new and quite up-to-date kind of a spook, very unlike the superior old crusted goblins on this side of the water. Instead of taking up its abode in a haunted

 A Ghost Among The Mormons. A Salt Lake correspondent of the New York World relates the following curious story under date of the 24th ult.:- A novelty in the line of spiritual manifestations occurred in

 A Girl of Strange Powers. Her mere presence causes a regular rumpus among furniture. There have been several remarkable stories of girls in America being the mysterious means of commotion around them, and now we

 An American Ghost Story. The Troy Press is responsible for the following ghost story: – There is a house standing on the old canal near Fort Ann, the family residing in which have frequently heard

 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

 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