Pondicherry is in a state of great excitement about the mysterious falling of brickbats in a house near Government House. Most of the local officials have made investigations but so far have failed to account
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Marylebone, London (1820)
[It’s quite hard to spot to where this refers as the road names have changed] Mysterious Case. Marlborough-Street. On Saturday an investigation which excited the greatest interest, and lasted till a very late hour,
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1912)
Bolts from the blue. Mysterious window-smashing in Bolton. (From our own correspondent). Bolton, Monday night. Mysterious window-smashing occurred at Bolton late last night and early this morning, and as no other explanation has been forthcoming
Continue ReadingUpper Gornal, West Midlands (1985)
Dr Spook goes a-haunting. Nick Parker. Brickies on a Black Country building site are getting the shakes… from a ghostly doctor! Workmen restoring an 18th century house in Upper Gornal are being plagued by a
Continue ReadingNedimala, Sri Lanka (1891)
Supernatural Phenomena. Considerable excitement is now prevailing at a village called Nedimala, near Dehiwala, owing to some supernatural phenomena taking place at a house there. The subject is being warmly discussed among the natives, and
Continue ReadingPontypool, Monmouthshire (1848)
A haunted house. IN my boyhood I used to see spirits, I suppose by a different kind of vision, for they moved and looked solid. About the year 1848, when I was sixteen years of
Continue ReadingWalscheid, Grand Est, France (1740)
[Near to Dabo, there is a place called Walscheid, and also Plaine-de-Walsch close by] Chapter XXX. Some other examples of Elves. On the 25th of August, 1746, I received a letter from a very worthy
Continue ReadingSmithfield, Dublin (1678)
A Dublin Instance, attested by Mr Daniel Williams, now in London. About the year 1678, I knew a young woman, who was niece to Alderman Arundel, in Dublin. In her said uncle’s house she was
Continue ReadingBrightling, East Sussex (c. 1690?)
X. I will next insert a late fact, not far off, which when a pious, credible person related to me, I desired him to send me the true narrative in writing when he came home,
Continue ReadingLutterworth, Leicestershire (1646)
VIII. In February, 1646, falling into great disability by bleeding, at the Lady Cook’s house at Milbourne in Darby-shire, I removed to Mr Noel’s house at Kirkby Malory in Leicestershire, where I lay weak three
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