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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Ghostly visitor at Padfield. We have been told this (Friday) morning, that a ghost – a veritable, bona fide ghost visited Padfield last night. They want something to waken them up over there, and it
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Driven out by ‘ghost’. By Amanda Doherty. A Coppull woman who has spent the past five weeks in a state of terror has fled her home despite calling on a medium to rid the flat
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Couple call in vicar over ‘spirit’. An Upper Gornal couple have called on a vicar to exorcise a “spirit” which they claim has haunted their 70-year-old home for nine months. Robin and Maureen Richards said
Continue ReadingCraigavon, County Armagh (1984)
The ghost of Moylinn. Family wants out of its ‘haunted house’. A Craigavon family wants out of its ‘haunted house’ in Moylinn. Mrs Evelyn Lewis has written to the Housing Executive telling how the family
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Caught during an affectionate moment at Oxford House Nursery on Grosvenor Road is four-year-old Jeremy Plested and three-year-old Stephanie Shaw getting into the spirit of things for Valentine’s Day. Midweek Visiter (Southport), 16th February 1990.
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Glasgow’s ‘Haunted House’. Girl Inmate’s Strange Story: “Sunday Post” Man’s Visit. That a house he owned in Queen’s Park, Glasgow, was regarded as haunted was the reason given by Mr Samuel Guest, when he asked
Continue ReadingMarbletown, New York, USA (1815)
Unprecedented phenomenon. We have conversed with several gentlemen, of undoubted veracity, from the county of Ulster, in this state, who all agreed in the following very extraordinary relation: That they have conversed with several credible
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A Ghost Story. A certain household in Runcorn has recently been disturbed by mysterious noises. For several midnights in succession they spoiled the harmony of the home, and there was some danger of broken health
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A Runcorn Ghost Story. Recently a family from Birkenhead took up their residence in a house in a street in a populous part of Runcorn, and leading off one of the principal thoroughfares. Their tenancy
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Laying a Ghost. Extraordinary explanation of Ilford mystery. For six weeks or more Ilford has been the scene of a mystery which at one time bade fair to rival that of the famous Cock-lane ghost.
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