Power of Fairies. (By arrangement with London “Express.”) Rome, Saturday. – An attack of influenza left a girl of sixteen, named Emma Sharaglia, of Ortona, the possessor of psychic powers. She often falls into trances,
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Edinburgh (1890)
“Shadows around us.” To the Editor of the “People”. Sir, – Pardon me for taking the liberty of writing you, but as you have for some weeks past being amusing your readers with some very
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A Ghostly Story. A story of ghosts and ghostly manifestations is given to the world by an American paper, the Des Moines (Iowa) Register: “Ever since the Third-street spook raised such a rumpus, ghostly visitors
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A ghost which is fond of children has taken possession of a farm in the Potchefstroom district of the Transvaal. It throws about the furniture, shakes and pinches the adult members of the family and
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Ghost, Burglar or Mischievous Fun. It may not be generally known that in part of Penzance yclept Bread-street, better known, perhaps, as Back-lane, for a year or more a series of meetings have been held
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Staff spooked by ‘Ghost of Gold Street’. Spooky happenings at a Northampton store are giving staff the shivers. Workers at Staks in Gold Street believe they have a resident ghost who takes delight in giving
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A ghost! Between the villages of Kirkby Malzeard and Galphay, and about equi-distant from each, is a lonely cottage, which, till within a week or two, has been the quiet retreat of an aged man
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Malacca Police Chief’s Vigil: Poltergeist Scare. From our own reporter. Malacca, Sept. 15. – What appeared to be midnight invaders at 155, Heeren Street in Malacca, finally turned out to be a poltergeist playing his
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Ghost throws stones in hut. Sunday Times correspondent, Ipoh, Saturday. For the past three days a poltergeist has been throwing stones and pebbles from the attap roof of a hut in Kampong Kepayang, near Ipoh,
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Mysterious noises. The common people of this district remain to this day so credulous, as to think that fairies do exist; that an inferior species of witchcraft is still practised, and that houses have been
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