A Poltergeist from Georgia. Thomas Hart Raines, M.D. The astonishing phenomena of the poltergeist variety that disturbed the little village of Llanarthney in South Wales, in December of 1909, have been repeated, to some extent,
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Lancaster, New Hampshire, USA (1818)
The Farrar House Mystery. The house in which the following remarkable event occurred, was situated on the spot where the Catholic parsonage now stands, and was known as the Farrar house. It is ony a
Continue ReadingHonolulu, Hawaii, USA (1908)
Punchbowl ghost excites wonder. Spiritualists declare girl is instrument of spirit. A ghost, a thirteen-year-old girl, and a large bunch of spiritualists are having the time of their lives on Punchbowl this morning. The ghost
Continue ReadingFar Rockaway, New York, USA (1892)
Rockaway’s Ghost. It is addicted to smashing plate glass. A family terrified by threatening demonstrations in a lawyer’s country villa. The neighbours of the opinion that it is not a genuine spook. Most people consider
Continue ReadingBrooklyn, New York, USA (1879)
Trying to trap the ghost. Six days and nights of terror in a Brooklyn tenement. Listening to the profane and vulgar voice coming from the scuttle. Mrs Scott’s vain attempt at moral suasion – A
Continue ReadingGröben, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (1718)
In the parsonage of Groben, says Hennings in Geister und Geisterschern, p. 802, the inhabitants were much disturbed in 1718 by the throwing of stones upon the roofs of the house and the outbuildings. The
Continue ReadingThames, New Zealand (1872)
A Haunted House at the Thames. For some days past (says the Thames Evening Star) rumours have reached us that certain very strange occurrences, or manifestations (as the Spiritists call them), have been going on
Continue ReadingHrabusice, Slovakia (1666)
[Upper Hungary is now mainly Slovakia. This page suggests Kabsdorff is what is now Hrabusice.] Persecution of the Pastor of Kabsdorff. The evangelical clergyman, Gunther, of Kabsdorff, in Upper Hungary, in 1666, was greatly persecuted
Continue ReadingKörösladány, Hungary (1911)
[I suggest that ‘Koeroesbanya’ could be the place in the title, as otherwise it doesn’t seem to exist. Korosladany is in the south of Hungary] The Vienna correspondent of ‘The Morning Leader’ reports that Hungarian
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Mr Podmore (Journal S.P.R., June, 1899) refers briefly to the stone-throwing case at Paris, reported in the Gazette des Tribunaux (February 2, 1854). The affair on February 2 had lasted for three weeks. There was
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