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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Zang Zhongying of You Fufeng was a Shiyushi (Attendant Eunuch). When his family prepared food and set the table, some unclear dust or dirt fell onto it to defile it. Just as the rice was
Continue ReadingGreenfield, Tennessee, USA (1890)
History and Biography Ina Hayes The Cotton Girl A Wonderful Phenomenon Copyright 1891, by Marion Hayes. (Cairo, Illinois. Cairo Daily Telegram Print.) Introduction. In order to preserve the history of a wonderful case that has
Continue ReadingNicklheim, Germany (1968)
The Nicklheim Case of 1968-69. Our most recent case occurred in Nicklheim, a small Bavarian village ten miles distant from Rosenheim. Over a period of four months a small family, comprised of a working-man, his
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The Neudorf Case of 1952. This case occurred in the house of the mayor of Neudorf in Baden. We entered the case at the request of the Department of Public Health. I reported on this
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Three years after the Vachendorf Case, the Freiburg Institute was asked by a Catholic priest from the village of Neusatz in Baden to investigate a poltergeist case. An old mother lived with her 30-year-old, weak-minded
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The Vachendorf Case of 1948. In Vachendorf, a small mountain village in Bavaria, an old German couple, refugees from Bohemia, were poorly lodged with their 14-year-old daughter [sic] in one room of an old mansion
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The Pursruck Case 1970-71. The changed attitude towards poltergeist phenomena became symptomatically manifest in the behaviour of the catholic priest, Rev. Jakob Wolfsteiner, who is in charge of the pastoral duties in the small village
Continue ReadingWoodston, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (1908)
A Ghost Story. (From the Peterborough “Citizen.”) While the people in Woodstone district are still discussing the strange story of the “Lady in Black,” a most detailed and circumstantial account of a wraith which has
Continue ReadingPeacehaven, East Sussex (1993)
‘My poltergeist isn’t frightening, he’s just a nuisance sometimes.’ Ghost stories do not scare one Peacehaven resident who lives in a haunted house and is quite at home with her poltergeist. When the ornaments move
Continue ReadingGrape Bay, Bermuda (1944)
Mystery of Strange Noises in the Night was Never Solved. Was it a poltergeist? By Harry Rose. Sunday Royal Gazette reporter. “Poltergeist – spirit announcing its presence its presence by raps or other sound.” (Oxford
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