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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Tag: Demonic & Paranormal Stories
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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