Spooks take over after joke at club. By Janet Martin. A spooky practical joke at a Shropshire night club has sparked off a ghostly aftermath of hauntings and happenings. Now terrified staff are refusing to
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Mirabello Monferrato, Piedmont, Italy (1906)
Boy’s Joke Ascribed to Spooks. From our own correspondent. Rome, 11 Dec. The village of Mirabello, near Turin, has been in a ferment for several days over a shower of stones which was continually falling
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Peculiar Psychic Phenomena. The “Daily Mail” Milan correspondent says an extraordinary psychic phenomena reported in the newspapers concerns a little nine-year-old peasant girl endowed with prodigious powers. It is stated that when the girl entered
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Caithness Folk-Tales and Historical Incidents. Edited by John Mowat, F.S.A. Scot. 1 Folk-Tales on Clod-Throwing. At the beginning of the eighteenth century* there were stories of strange and mysterious happenings in Caithness, concerning which some
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Caithness Folk-Tales and Historical Incidents. Edited by John Mowat, F.S.A. Scot. 1 Folk-Tales on Clod-Throwing. At the beginning of the eighteenth century* there were stories of strange and mysterious happenings in Caithness, concerning which some
Continue ReadingCity of London (1871)
A Ghost in the City. The Peckham window-breaking “ghost” has apparently transferred itself to the City. About the beginning of last month, just when Peckham began to grow quiet, several of the shopkeepers in Lombard
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Young couple living in fear of poltergeiest. Priest blesses house. By Tony Pastor, Daily Post Staff. A couple who believe their house is haunted by a poltergeist have called on the help of a local
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Priest to ‘bless haunted house’. By Neal Keeling. A priest ghostbuster has been called in by a family convinced their home is spooked. Frank and Julie Owen believe they are dealing with a poltergeist. The
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Couple’s plea over ghostly home. Move us from this haunted house… By Jonathan Shorney. The house where things go bump in the night. Jobless Christopher George and his wife Jackie have had enough of their
Continue ReadingLivet-et-Gavet, France (1843)
The following strange account of a shower of aerolites appeared in the Courrier de l’Isere. Our contemporary must not be surprised if the statement should find the world incrdulous – credat Judaeus Appella: – “Towards
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