Jonesville. Va., Dec. 23- ‘Bouncing Bed’ and Girl Who Continue to Quiver and Quake Despite Change in Quarters Baffle University Professors. A change in quarters for 9-year-old Bertha Marie Sybert, failed to interrupt or shed
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Trumann, Arkansas, USA (1941)
This is written rather like a story? Joking Ghost is Making Boy’s Life a Misery. From a New York Correspondent. A mysterious, unseen knocker has disrupted the home and school life of 11-year-old Loros Elledge.
Continue ReadingDallas, Texas, USA (1878)
An Inconsiderate Ghost. The trouble caused by the unpardonable interference of a ghost is thus described in a recent issue of the Dallas (Texas) Herald: “A strange domestic disturbance exists in a family whose place
Continue ReadingStanmore, Sydney, NSW, Australia (1893)
Mysterious stone throwing. There appears to be what may be called an epidemic of stone throwing and producing noise in the mysterious manner which we have noted at late as prevalent at the Maclean, in
Continue ReadingBallarat East, Victoria, Australia (1901)
Mysteirous Stone-throwing. Some mysterious stone-throwing, similar to that reported from New South Wales a few months ago, and Yeppoon, has caused considerable annoyance to residents of Ballarat East (Victoria). The houses of several people living
Continue ReadingMalacca, Malaysia (1951)
Mr Wisdom meets a poltergeist. Sunday Times Correspondent, Malacca, Sat. A stone hurled supposedly by a poltergeist fell with tremendous force inches away from the Resident Commissioner, Malacca, Mr G.E.C. Wisdom, when he visited a
Continue ReadingCairo, Illinois, U.S.A. (1880)
A mischievous ghost. A defunct railroad engineer’s pranks. The wild and mysterious run of an engine. Unpleasant experience of wipers in a pit, etc. Special Dispatch to the “Cincinnati Enquirer.” Vincennes, Ind., April 18. Your
Continue ReadingChennai, Tamil Nadu, India (1872)
Three new poltergeist tales. The three following stories have all, I may say, come to me at first hand in the form in which they were written down by the eye-witnesses who describe the part
Continue ReadingGenoa, Liguria, Italy (c. 1870s?)
Father Lucchesi’s second story has nothing directly to do with our present subject [poltergeists in the West Indies], but it is curious, and I trust that I may be excused for quoting his letter to
Continue ReadingBastia, Corsica, France (1896)
One piece of first-hand evidence, however, of a somewhat similar stone-throwing phenomenon I can quote. I owe it to the great kindness of Father John L. Lucchesi, S.J., for many years missionary in Alaska. The
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