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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Florence, Tuscany, Italy (1909)
Dante’s Haunted House. The papers of Florence are full of comments on the report that the house where the great Dante Alighieri lived is haunted by ghosts. The premises are occupied now by a blacksmith,
Continue ReadingChelsea, London (1925)
The Haunted Portrait Amazing happenings at art school Picture of a dead girl which refuses to remain in its frame From our own correspondent, London, Tuesday. A psychic manifestation is said to be the cause
Continue ReadingGaldares, Pyrenees-Orientales, France (1936)
Series of amazing happenings on a village farm. A terrorised populace. Rabbits and chicken disappear. House left in disorder. Boy’s good work with pitchfork. A series of amazing happenings on a farm in the village
Continue ReadingFarmborough, Somerset (1963)
Ghost who is making a splash. Herald Reporter. Plumber John Kemp does not usually believe in ghosts. But the spooky goings-on in a council house are making him suspicious. Something is making the water overflow
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Hand that rocks the cradle… A young Australian couple have claimed they are being terrorised by a poltergeist, which has sent crockery and kitchen utensils crashing about their home and even tried to tip their
Continue ReadingNorth Hykeham, Lincolnshire (1995)
Jolly Roger the ‘lodger’. Casper the friendly ghost has got nothing on a county family’s friendly phantom. The Johnsons from Constance Avenue, North Hykeham, have spent the last 17 years sharing their home with their
Continue ReadingRosenheim, Germany (1967)
The ghost that blew a fuse over television. Bristol BBC producer Anne Owen does not believe in ghosts, but she is convinced an electronic poltergeist is playing supernatural tricks with a programme she is compiling.
Continue ReadingBarnsley, South Yorkshire (1965)
Mystery sobbing sounds in a semi-detached Barnsley home. By Andrew MacKenzie. A week after he had moved into his house at Harbrough Hill Road, Barnsley, Yorkshire, in August 1965, Mr Michael White, aged 24, a
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A ghost in the city. With the exposure of the clever performances of the Davenport Brothers, that for a time caused such unparalleled sensation among all classes, we thought that spiritualism had received its death
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