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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Tag: Demonic & Paranormal Stories
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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