Ghostly Bombing. A nightly bombardment of stones on the roof of a house in Mysore (India) is terrifying numbers of the local residents, who attribute it to evil spirits. Every evening as soon as darkness
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Nanjing, China (1877)
Nanking. The correspondent of the Shanghai Courier writes: – The surviving victims of the powder explosion last month have received from the Viceroy Tls. 4 each; while Tls. 12 have been given to the friends
Continue ReadingMontelimar, France (1885)
Disorderly Manifestations. At a farm-house at Montelimart, occupied by Mouton-Florent, his wife, and a daughter ten years of age, for the past four weeks there have been stones thrown through the windows and doorways. The
Continue ReadingKendal, Cumbria (1861)
A Murder Revealed By A Ghost. The Kendal Mercury relates the following strange story:- At the high end of Stramongate, in Kitty Gibson’s yard, stand some very old buildings, and in one of these, a
Continue ReadingUlm, Germany (1870s)
Mysterious knocking and ringing continued for three years – the police baffled. The correspondent of the Revue Spirite relates, that at Ulm, in Bavaria, spirits have persistently disturbed the town by loud rapping on one
Continue ReadingPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (1866)
A Haunted House. Readers of newspapers are seldom called upon to peruse detailed accounts of supernatural occurrences. Superstition went out as the printing press came in, and yet we have a plain, circumstantial account of
Continue ReadingRye, East Sussex (1853)
Extraordinary Affair – Rye. (From the Sussex Express) About a month since Mr Kingsland, cabinet-maker, of this town, and his wife, were greatly annoyed day after day, by having panes of glass broken in their
Continue ReadingKomal, Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu, India (1872)
Another Hindu Stone-Shower Medium. By T. Vijiaraghava Charlu, Esq., F.T.S. I am able to add, from personal experience, some additional facts respecting the phenomena of possession – or, as the Western people call it –
Continue ReadingHovingham, North Yorkshire (1707)
In the parish of Hovingham, North Yorkshire, in March 1707, something was amiss. The household of John Fawcet was suffering a haunting that was causing a ‘great disturbance’ to the family, disrupting their sleep and
Continue ReadingGrosserlach, Germany (1916)
The apparition in Gross-Erlach (Wurttemberg), described in detail by Johannes Illig in his treatise “Der Spuk von Gross Erlach, Juni 1916” (Goppinger Tagblate, also Psychische Studien, Leipzig), began with untying of cattle-chains in a locked
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