The Baldoon Mystery: The Witch’s Curse on a Canadian Farm
Fires, falling stones, shattered windows and dying livestock drove a family from its Ontario farm—until a dream pointed toward a…
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Demonic & Paranormal Stories
Accounts of possession, hauntings, forbidden encounters and phenomena that remain beyond explanation.
The Cideville Presbytery: The Invisible Hand That Attacked Two Boys
In 1850 a Normandy presbytery became the centre of raps, flying objects, wounds and a black hand—disturbances later carried into…
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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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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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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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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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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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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 Black Monk of Pontefract: Violence at 30 East Drive
At 30 East Drive, the Pritchard family reported moving furniture, attacks on their daughter and a hooded figure whose historical…
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Clara Germana Cele: The Possession Behind the Mission Record
The famous possession story survives through delayed clerical versions from the Mariannhill mission world, not one contemporary and uncontested record.
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The San Pedro Poltergeist: The Man in the Attic
Jackie Hernandez reported apparitions, moving objects and liquid from the walls before investigators said an attic cord tightened around a…
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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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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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The Epworth Rectory and the Spirit Called Old Jeffrey
In the winter of 1716–1717, the Wesley household recorded footsteps, groans, violent knocks and answering sounds that moved through locked…
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Elizabeth Knapp and the Voice That Spoke from Groton
In 1671, a sixteen-year-old servant in Groton passed from shrieks and convulsions into a prolonged affliction documented almost day by…
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Marthe Brossier and the Demon Before the Court of France
Marthe Brossier’s alleged possession moved from provincial churches to Paris, where priests, physicians and royal authority fought over the meaning…
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Gottliebin Dittus and the Two-Year Battle at Möttlingen
Between 1841 and 1843, Gottliebin Dittus became the centre of a prolonged conflict of noises, apparitions, convulsions and commanding voices…
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The Possessed Brothers of Illfurth and the Burnkirch Exorcism
In the 1860s, two brothers in the Alsatian village of Illfurth became the subjects of medical observation, episcopal inquiry and…
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The Rosenheim Poltergeist and the Office That Turned Against Itself
In 1967, a Bavarian law office became the scene of exploding bulbs, rotating fixtures, telephone anomalies and instrumented electrical disturbances.
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Gef the Talking Mongoose and the Haunting of Cashen’s Gap
At an isolated Isle of Man farm, the Irving family said a hidden animal learned speech, carried gossip, sang songs…
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The Greenbrier Ghost and the Murder Revealed from the Grave
After Zona Heaster Shue’s sudden death in 1897, her mother said the dead woman returned four nights in succession and…
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The Hammersmith Ghost and the Killing in Black Lion Lane
A ghost panic in Hammersmith ended on 3 January 1804 when an armed vigilante mistook a plasterer’s white clothes for…
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Michael Taylor and the Exorcism That Ended in Blood
In October 1974, a prolonged deliverance rite was followed by the killing of Christine Taylor, forcing church, court and inquest…
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Nicole Aubrey and the Exorcism Wars of France
In 1566, a teenage woman called Nicole Aubrey was carried into Laon Cathedral, where Beelzebub spoke before crowds and the…
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The Aix-en-Provence Possessions and Louis Gaufridy
In 1611, the possession of two Ursuline women drew exorcists, demonic voices and the Parlement of Provence toward the priest…
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The Possessed Nuns of Louviers and Madeleine Bavent
Behind the walls of a Louviers convent, accusations of possession, nocturnal rites and corrupted clergy led to exorcisms, trials and…
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Morzine and the Village Overtaken by Possession
Beginning in 1857, convulsions, blasphemous voices and possession reports spread through the Alpine village of Morzine and resisted years of…
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George Lukins and the Seven Devils of Yatton
For years George Lukins was said to bark, sing in altered voices and answer as seven spirits before clergy confronted…
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Esther Cox and the Fires of the Great Amherst Mystery
In a crowded Nova Scotia house, thunderous blows, moving objects, written threats and sudden fires gathered around a young woman…
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The Watseka Wonder and the Spirit of Mary Roff
In 1878, Lurancy Vennum reportedly set aside her own identity and entered the Roff household speaking and remembering as their…
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Willington Mill and the Footsteps Above the Empty Room
At an isolated Northumberland mill house, the Procter family recorded footsteps, falling bodies, shaking beds and figures appearing where no…
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The Drummer of Tedworth and the Curse That Beat at Night
After John Mompesson confiscated a wandering drummer’s instrument, nocturnal beating, scratching and violent movement invaded his Wiltshire home.
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The 1949 St. Louis Exorcism Behind The Exorcist
A Jesuit diary records weeks of prayers, restraints, wounds and apparent responses to sacred objects during the 1949 exorcism that…
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The Earling Exorcism and the Demons of Emma Schmidt
In 1928, Father Theophilus Riesinger entered an Iowa convent to conduct three prolonged exorcism sessions over the woman remembered as…
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The Bell Witch and the Spirit That Hated John Bell
On a Tennessee farm, an invisible presence scratched the walls, spoke to visitors and vowed to kill John Bell. The…
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The Devil of Glenluce and the Voice in the Weaver’s House
In 1654, stones, severed threads and a speaking presence invaded the home of Scottish weaver Gilbert Campbell. The Devil of…
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The Cock Lane Ghost and the Knocks That Accused a Murderer
In 1762 London, a knocking spirit answered questions from a child's bed and accused William Kent of poisoning the dead…
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Poveglia Island and the Silence of the Venetian Dead
Beyond Venice lies Poveglia, an abandoned quarantine island of sealed wards, a silent bell tower and stories that the dead…
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Demonic Apparitions in the Records of the Witch Trials
Witch-trial records preserve a dark procession of black men, spectral animals and midnight visitors said to demand names, blood and…
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The Loudun Possessions and the Devils in the Convent
In 1630s France, a convent erupted in visions, convulsions and demonic names—drawing priests, magistrates and thousands into the Loudun possessions.
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Anneliese Michel and the Last Exorcisms of Klingenberg
Between 1975 and 1976, Anneliese Michel endured 67 rites of exorcism in Klingenberg, leaving recordings, testimony and a tragedy that…
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The Enfield Poltergeist and the Voice of Bill Wilkins
Knocks moved through the walls, furniture crossed the floor and a dead man's voice emerged from a child in the…
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Borley Rectory and England’s Most Haunted House
A spectral nun, phantom coaches, writing on walls and stones thrown from empty rooms made Borley Rectory England's most famous…
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