I will close by giving some particulars about a case which came under my own observation (M.A.J. Riko, of the Hague, a well-known gentleman of great education, whose name is familiar to many people in
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Sidoardjo, East Java, Indonesia (1914?)
Sidoardjo = Sidoarjo one would imagine. Under the heading of “Psychic Phenomena in Java” the following curious incidents are related by J. B. T. Mulder, in “Het Teckomstig Leven.” They occurred during his stay in
Continue ReadingYucaipa, California, USA (1966)
House for sale, ghost included. Borderlanders in Southern California have been watching, via news items, the progress of a poltergeist phenomenon in the town of Yucaipa. We have lectured there several times on Flying Saucers,
Continue ReadingClopotiva, Romania (1880)
The March number of Psychische Studien contains a report of some extraordinary stone-throwing on the 17th of November last, at the house of a gentleman named Batternay, living at Klopotiva, Siebenburgena. The account is accompanied
Continue ReadingAmbon City, Maluku, Indonesia (1825)
In 1825 M. Mertins was Governor of the Moluccas Islands. Once, towards evening as he was at Amboyna, in Fort Victoria, he saw a shower of stones fall. The fort was situated in an open
Continue ReadingVienna, Austria (1906)
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
Continue ReadingJacarepagua, 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
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