A haunted house. IN my boyhood I used to see spirits, I suppose by a different kind of vision, for they moved and looked solid. About the year 1848, when I was sixteen years of
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Walscheid, Grand Est, France (1740)
[Near to Dabo, there is a place called Walscheid, and also Plaine-de-Walsch close by] Chapter XXX. Some other examples of Elves. On the 25th of August, 1746, I received a letter from a very worthy
Continue ReadingSmithfield, Dublin (1678)
A Dublin Instance, attested by Mr Daniel Williams, now in London. About the year 1678, I knew a young woman, who was niece to Alderman Arundel, in Dublin. In her said uncle’s house she was
Continue ReadingBrightling, East Sussex (c. 1690?)
X. I will next insert a late fact, not far off, which when a pious, credible person related to me, I desired him to send me the true narrative in writing when he came home,
Continue ReadingLutterworth, Leicestershire (1646)
VIII. In February, 1646, falling into great disability by bleeding, at the Lady Cook’s house at Milbourne in Darby-shire, I removed to Mr Noel’s house at Kirkby Malory in Leicestershire, where I lay weak three
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XIV. There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one of my hearers, who hath an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable rank, who having formerly seemed pious, of late years doth
Continue ReadingLeasingham, Lincolnshire (1679)
Relation IV. A true account, how Alice, the daughter of William Medcalfe, Yeoman, in the parish of Lessingham in Lincolnshire, was disturbed by an Apparition, with other feats of witchcraft practised upon that family, sent
Continue ReadingMianwali, Pakistan (1957)
Heavenly Pranksters. From our own correspondent. Mianwali, May 31. A supernatural phenomenon here is taxing the brains of the wise and holy men of Mianwali. Three houses in the main bazar are being bombarded day
Continue ReadingRushton, Northamptonshire (c.1584)
Sixteenth Century Knockings. A recently issued volume bearing principally upon the household events of an old English Catholic family, and principally recording their troubles in the difficult days of the Reformation period, is hardly the
Continue ReadingClacton-on-Sea, Essex (1928)
Ghostly links with past. Grim discovery in old house. While restoring an old house, Treasure Holt, on the outskirts of Clacton-on-Sea, Mr and Mrs P. S. Hayward, the owners, found under the floor of a
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