The “Haunted” Mangle. Some perturbation has lately been caused a Castle Street family by the extra-ordinary nocturnal performance of a washing mangle. Every night, at the same time – shortly after two o’clock – the
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Port of Spain, Trinidad (1905)
The Queen St Mystery Sensational activity of a “jumbie” in a boarding house. Furniture and crockery locomotes, and potatoes jump. Mesmerist called in to lay the spook. Port-of-Spain in general, and Queen street in particular,
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The ghosts of Rockingham. Mystery spirit and a pretty lady. Midnight searches. Which is the most haunted village in Leicestershire, or on its borders? A remarkable story has just come to light from Rockingham where,
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Maid’s night of terror. Another story of haunted house “Shapeless mass” Things flung about the bedroom. The experiences of a Liverpool family in a supposedly “haunted” house have prompted a Liverpool woman to tell a
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A haunting at the Beeb. Post People with Rebecca Gooch. Alec Reid has been keeping a rather unusual diary of late. And its contents have led more than a few Beebsters to wonder whether the
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Psychic Twins Puzzle. Potatoes made to dance. Furniture moves. Scientists baffled by strange powers. New York, Tuesday. When the “psychic twins” are together a motor stops, and in a room the furniture starts dancing about,
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Mystery Fires at Farm. A series of sudden inexplicable fires in the house of a farmer at Dinteloord, Holland, has given rise to a suggestion that the house is haunted by “incendiary ghosts”. One day
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Objects “Flying Through Air.” Kentucky “ghost” report. Louisville, Kentucky, Jan. 3. (A.A.P.) Police and neighbours have been trying since Sunday to lay a “ghost” in the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Thacker, in Louisville.
Continue ReadingIsola, La Spezia, Liguria, Italy (1908)
Psychic phenomena in Italy. (By “Echo” private wire). For some time past it is declared (says the Rome correspondent of the “Globe”) strange phenomena have been observed in the village of Isola, not far from
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Furniture Dances. Police baffled by eerie occurrences. Rome, Saturday. Eerier than a story by De Maupassant have been the experiences of an Italian family in their new home. The building is situated in a highly-respectable
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