An Italian Poltergeist.
It is not surprising to hear of a “poltergeist” in South Italy, where everybody believes in the occult. A shopkeeper at Palagoria named Ansorio has been troubled for a long time past by dancing chairs, tables playing leap-frog, and mysterious voices emerging from cupboards.
The family first suspected practical jokers, then burglars, but the police could find no trace of either, and a couple of detectives were finally sent to keep watch. For two nights nothing happened, but at one o’clock on the third morning the whole hubbub started with redoubled violence, and all the panes leaped out of the windows at the feet of the astounded sleuths. They sapiently diagnosed a slight local earthquake, but the seismological instruments gave no confirmation, so now it has been decided to ask the parish priest to come round and exorcise the evil spirits.
Truth, 20th April 1927.