Stones fall near a remote farm but the activity soon transfers inside the house. Many objects are moved and hidden and the occurrences seem to focus on the Fishers’ eleven-year-old daughter. A large knife balances on her shoulder and is seen by many people.
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Gustavia, Saint-Barthelemy Island, Leeward Islands (1850)
The Simmons family experience stone throwing and the movement of various items in their house, and are seemingly attacked by something unseen.
A coin appears in response to a policeman’s request.
Scandicci, Florence, Italy (1898)
Spiritualism in the Daily Papers. It is very certain that, as regards the attitude of the Press towards Spiritualism and the publicity willingly given to all matters connected with it, foreign journalism is far ahead
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Bellechasse, Quebec, Canada (1861)
Missiles thrown by Unseen Hands. To the Editor of ‘Light’. Sir, – In connection with the numerous instances of stone-throwing, &c., chronicled in the pages of the Press in various parts of the globe, I
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Kermarc, Plouguernevel, Brittany, France (1876)
France appears to be the favorite country for spirits who like to throw stones, though such phenomena as stone-throwing have occasionally appeared in other lands. Perhaps it pleasingly recalls to the perpetrators of the mischief
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Laroche-en-Brenil, Cote-d’Or, France (1898)
‘L’Echo du Merveilleux’ reprints from the ‘Bien Public,’ a Dijon paper, the detailed account of another ‘Poltergeist’ case. From the 19th to the 27th of March, manifestations of a violent and destructive character have taken
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Nienadowka, Poland (1898)
Notes from German spiritualistic papers. The lonely little village of Niedanowka, in Austria, has become of late the scene of some remarkable manifestations presenting all the well-known features of the ‘Poltergeist’ type. The medium, Johanna
Continue ReadingNimes, Occitania, France (1890)
Missile Throwing by Unseen Hands. V. Flamen, a correspondent of La Lumiere, quotes the following from the Journal de Nimes, under the heading of “Une Maison Mysterieuse”: Mme Hilair, Laitiere, who lives in Rue Turenne
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Great Wheal Alfred, Cornwall (1856)
Thimble Rigging Extraordinary. A Ghost Story and its Denouement. Not very long ago the locality of Great Wheal Alfred was a very fitting one for a Ghost Story. Its untenanted, ruinous engine houses, through which
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George Town, Chennai, India (1916)
We have received from a reader in India (Lt.-Col. S.T. Avetoom) a cutting from the “Madras Mail” giving an account of some poltergeist phenomena which a few weeks ago greatly disturbed the inmates of a
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Bedminster, Bristol (1865 and previously)
A short note of rapping in Bedminster.
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Holyhead, Anglesey (1957)
House of Mystery. Strange steps, whistling, knocks. By a “Daily Post” reporter. Yesterday morning thirty-four-year-old Mrs Helen Painter, of 3 Cybi Street, Holyhead, lost her ninth lodger since September. And Mrs Painter confirms what the
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Perth (1895)
A Perth Mystery. Alleged Spirit-Rapping Investigation by the Police For some time back a rather mysterious affair has been troubling the minds of the inhabitants of Market Street, Perth, and is exciting considerable interest, not
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Baldarroch, Aberdeenshire (1838)
The latest instance of the popular panic occasioned by a house supposed to be haunted, occurred in Scotland, in the winter of the year 1838. On the 5th of December, the inmates of the farm-house
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Halo about a child. Strange manifestations at a country house in South Alabama. Noise like that of a train. Approaching the house – The ticking on the roof – A child enveloped in a halo
Continue ReadingUdhagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, India (1897)
Spooks Pitch Rocks. They do in the champion ghost story from India. The police called in. They could do nothing and sent for a professional devil-driver to cure a ghost-a[…]ed girl. Madras, India, July 10.
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Aspects of Life In Paris. […] I shall not attempt to describe the inhabitants of this zone: any one who has ever gone to Five Points can form a pretty accurate idea of its squalor,
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A Haunted House. Mysterious manifestations at the cottage home of Cooney Driebelbiss. Cooney Driebelbiss, of the fire department, and his wife, reside in a little cottage, in the rear of Rine Caps’ jewelry house, on
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Promenade. With John Deighton. The festive season is the time for ghost stories… and strange things have been happening at the home of Mrs Beryl France, who lives with her 18-year-old daughter Wendy and her
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Who’s the thing of the castle? Spooked staff blame ghost for creepy happenings at Upnor. By John Plunkett. A ghost is being blamed for some alarming disturbances at Upnor Castle. Spooked security guards can find
Continue ReadingAchindarroch, Highland (1943)
The Haunted Farm-house. Written and illustrated by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. Few with any appreciable knowledge of Scotland have not heard of Glen Duror, that steep and comparatively short valley running inland from the roadside at
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From Glossop to Disley and Thereabout. By Oliver Fizzwig. … Farther on my companion pointed out to me a neat white farmhouse by the road side, and known as Hagg Bank. Here many years ago
Continue ReadingSlaithwaite, West Yorkshire (1898)
Slaithwaite’s latest mystery And its solution. There have, in the past, been manifold mysteries in the domain of Slaithwaite, but the one of the past week has broken all records, for the magician has not
Continue ReadingKulutara, Sri Lanka (1928)
The ghost train of Ceylon. Phantoms on line at scene of smash. Incredible stories are told of weird happenings on the scene of the recent railway disaster at Kalutara, about 25 miles from Colombo, when
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