Liber Officiorum Spirituum
The Book of the Offices of Spirits belongs to the manuscript ancestry behind later demon catalogues, listing named beings, ranks,…
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Month: July 2026
Livre des Esperitz
Livre des Esperitz preserves an early French catalogue of spirits whose names, ranks and offices anticipate or parallel beings later…
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The Sallie House: The Little Girl Who May Never Have Existed
Atchison’s Sallie House is said to hold the spirit of a child who died during surgery, yet the most famous…
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The South Shields Poltergeist: Messages from the Unseen Intruder
A family in South Shields reported thrown objects, threatening messages, hostile toys and electronic contact from an entity investigators called…
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Borley Rectory: Footsteps Through England’s Most Haunted House
Borley Rectory became England’s most famous haunted house through bells, footsteps, wall writings, a phantom nun—and a controversy that outlived…
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Anna Ecklund: Twenty-Three Days in the Earling Convent
The 1928 Earling exorcism entered American demonology through a devotional pamphlet describing twenty-three days of voices, convulsions and resistance inside…
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The Zoccolara of Benevento: Footsteps Beside the Roman Theatre
Near Benevento’s Roman theatre, the Zoccolara is heard before she is seen: wooden clogs striking the street, a black figure…
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The Janara of Benevento: The Night Witch at the Bedroom Door
In Benevento tradition, the Janara slips beneath doors, presses upon sleepers and leaves horses braided before dawn—an intimate terror older…
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Azzurrina: The Child Beneath Montebello Castle
The legend says an albino child vanished into Montebello Castle’s ice chamber in 1375 and returns in ambiguous recordings every…
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Ca’ Dario: The Curse of Venice’s Fatal Palace
The beautiful Renaissance palace on Venice’s Grand Canal has been tied to murder, suicide, ruin and a curse built from…
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