In the Journal of the Society for May, 1907, there is a report of a typical poltergeist occurring in a Vienna suburb. The report is sent by an eye-witness of some of the disturbances, Mr
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Jacarepagua, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1893)
In 1893 the household of Senor Eduardo Leandro Ballard, the Government inspector of forests in the Sierra of Jacarepagua, near Rio, was subject to continuous annoyance by the fall of stones, and other strange incidents,
Continue ReadingCumminsville, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (1870)
Stones thrown by spirits. Andrew Streit, says the Cincinnati Gazette, is the name of a moderately well-to-do farmer who resides near Cumminsville, on the western side of that limpid stream, Mill Creek, and who is
Continue ReadingBarjac, Gard, France (1882)
The journals of Gard report also that in the vicinity of Barjac, an honest cultivator and his wife have for some time past been troubled at nights, not only with noises, but with upsetting of
Continue ReadingTours, Centre-Val de Loire, France (1882)
Missiles thrown by unseen agency. The Revue Spirite of this month quotes from the Union Liberale de Tours and the Journal d’Indre-et-Loire some facts which have caused excitement in their locality. At a farm situate
Continue ReadingMaulbronn, Germany (1659)
From ‘Throwing of stones and other substances by spirits’ by William Howitt. … The disturbance of the monastery of Maulbronn took place in the year 1659-60. It began with the throwing of different things from
Continue ReadingBad Bergzabern, Germany (1850s)
[Another account is of] Phillipine Senger, the magnetic girl of Bergzabern, in the Pfalz, whom Hornung visited in the hospital at Frankenthal. Her story was published by Baron Du Potet in the Journal of Magnetism,
Continue ReadingSalamanca, Spain (1500s)
(From ‘Throwing of stones and other substances by spirits’ by William Howitt, citing Professor Perty of Berne and his ‘Mystiche Erscheinungen’.) In the 16th century, according to Torquemada, a great throwing of stones took place
Continue ReadingBlantyre, South Lanarkshire (1663)
The haunting of Blantyre Craig. There is a remarkable and well-authenticated tale of ghostly perambulations attached to the old buildings. The story dates from the time of the 4th Lord Blantyre and his good
Continue ReadingJalpaiguri, West Bengal, India (1895)
One of those mysterious and uncomfortable stone-throwing phenomena, which the Spiritualists, if they were open to conviction, would angrily repudiate as the work of human spirits, has been occurring at Jalpaiguri, on the way to
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