From ‘Throwing of stones and other substances by spirits’ by William Howitt. … The disturbance of the monastery of Maulbronn took place in the year 1659-60. It began with the throwing of different things from
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Bad Bergzabern, Germany (1850s)
[Another account is of] Phillipine Senger, the magnetic girl of Bergzabern, in the Pfalz, whom Hornung visited in the hospital at Frankenthal. Her story was published by Baron Du Potet in the Journal of Magnetism,
Continue ReadingSalamanca, Spain (1500s)
(From ‘Throwing of stones and other substances by spirits’ by William Howitt, citing Professor Perty of Berne and his ‘Mystiche Erscheinungen’.) In the 16th century, according to Torquemada, a great throwing of stones took place
Continue ReadingBlantyre, South Lanarkshire (1663)
The haunting of Blantyre Craig. There is a remarkable and well-authenticated tale of ghostly perambulations attached to the old buildings. The story dates from the time of the 4th Lord Blantyre and his good
Continue ReadingJalpaiguri, West Bengal, India (1895)
One of those mysterious and uncomfortable stone-throwing phenomena, which the Spiritualists, if they were open to conviction, would angrily repudiate as the work of human spirits, has been occurring at Jalpaiguri, on the way to
Continue ReadingGuadalajara, Mexico (1930s?)
This could be a tale, but it has a location and relative detail. And it happens in January! Mexican Ghost Stories. By Douglas Grahame. […] Guadalajara is the location of a queer house. The dwelling
Continue ReadingPalembang, Sumatra, Indonesia (1903)
After an interval for tea, Mr Feilding read the account of the case of “Poltergeist” phenomena witnessed by Mr Grottendieck, which is printed below, and a discussion followed. Mr F. Podmore pointed out that it
Continue ReadingGawler, Southern Australia (1918)
“Spooks” at Gawler. Our Gawler correspondent writes: – Mysterious occurrences have caused much curiosity here, and are almost the sole topic of local conversation. Near to midnight on one occasion recently, a certain parent sat
Continue ReadingAdelaide, Southern Australia (1868)
Spooks and spirit-rapping in Adelaide. Under the pen name of “Prospect,” a well-known citizen writes: – In The Register of February 9 appeared a paragraph referring to spooks and spirit-rapping at Gawler. In 1868 I
Continue ReadingMilan, Lombardy, Italy (1932)
Mysterious hail of missiles. Occurrences in Milan. A Milan family named Canziani has been thrown into great alarm by mysterious attacks, attributed, locally, to the spirit world, says the Milan correspondent of the Irish Independent.
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