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
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Chennai, 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
Continue ReadingGrenada (1934)
A West Indian Poltergeist. Some few weeks since I received a kind letter from Father Aldhelm Bowring, O.P., telling me that he had read some of the articles published in these pages, and that he
Continue ReadingDalby, Isle of Man (1930s)
Weasel says it can talk. But people won’t believe it. Farm noises. From our own correspondent. Peel (Isle of Man), Sunday. Peel, Isle of Man, has been divided into two camps – by a 100
Continue ReadingJulia Creek, South Australia (1876)
This account is quoted from the Harbinger of Light, Melbourne. Stone-throwing by spirits in Australia. By A Mueller, M.D. Amongst the varied phenomena of Spiritualism, not the least interesting are those spontaneous “unimplored” tokens of
Continue ReadingBarcelona, Spain (1824)
Ignorance, and its inseparable attendant, Superstition, appear to pursue their march through Spain; and the impediments constantly thrown in the way of the development of light and instruction, have the effect of giving a deeper
Continue ReadingSt Louis, Missouri, USA (1889)
Haunted. The room in the Southern Hotel, St Louis, where Maxwell murdered Preller, and was afterwards arrested in Australia, brought home, tried and executed, is said to be haunted. The ‘Examiner’s’ St Louis dispatches of
Continue ReadingKermanshah, Iran (c.1880s)
Chapter 19. Kirmanshahan. […] Muhammad Agha begged to be admitted, and we had a cosey chat by the fireside. Later on, by invitation of the Agha, I went down to his majlis. He had a
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