Police Hunt Ghost Stone-throwing at night From our own correspondent, Avignon, Sunday. Thirty men armed with rifles are helping the police to scour the countryside round the village of St. Victor for a stone-throwing ghost.
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Canvey Island, Essex (1709)
An Exact Narrative of many Surprizing Matters of Fact Uncontestably wrought by an Evil Spirit or Spirits, in the House of Master Jan Smagge, Farmer, in Canvy-Island, near Leigh in Essex, upon the 10th, 13th,
Continue ReadingPerak, Malaysia (1910s)
Hunting a Hantu. Ghostly manifestations tend to follow the same types everywhere. In particular there is a world-wide resemblance among those unruly and exuberant spirits which are best called by their German name – Poltergeist.
Continue ReadingWestmorland, Cumbria (1860s or 70s)
The ghostly stone-throwing at the haunted house of Upholland, which has been going on with such unabated spiritual vigour, reminds a correspondent of an even more mysterious case of a quarter of a century ago.
Continue ReadingHull, East Yorkshire (1897)
Strange Affair in Hull. Wholesale Window-Smashing. The Hull police are at present engaged in investigating a curious circumstance in Linnaeus-street. Commencing on Monday, the windows at the back of a house in that street have
Continue ReadingMonikie, Angus (1893)
Mysterious Affair at Monikie. Stone Throwing by Invisible Hands. There is great excitement at and in the neighbourhood of the farm of Downiebank, Monikie, occupied by Mr Laird. For about a week past Mr Laird’s
Continue ReadingPlumstead, Greenwich, London (1880)
Mysterious Stone Throwing. A mysterious and diabolical case of stone-throwing occurred this week at the house of Mr Barber, 200, Maxey-road, Plumstead, where the whole of the windows in the rear of the house have
Continue ReadingShanghai, China (1921)
“Ghost” That Rang Bells. “Spirit” laid by five arrests. London, Saturday. A “ghost” that rang electric bells, moved crockery, and was responsible for the theft of a bangle, and the starting of a fire was
Continue ReadingBishop Burton, Beverley, East Yorkshire (1903)
The farm is also marked as ‘Burton Rakes’ on the current map. Ghostly Visitors at Bishop Burton? Mysterious Occurrence. Continual vigilance fails to detect the origin. The residents of the vicinity of Bishop Burton have
Continue ReadingChorley, Lancashire (1876)
A Ghost-haunted Railway Station. A Chorley correspondent writes:- For the past week or ten days considerable alarm has been created among the railway employes of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, at Chorley, in consequence of
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