Ghosts

Profiles of four Virginia witches in the late nineteenth century.

The conclusion to the story, but perhaps not the final word, on the mysterious red spook light seen at Columbus Grove.

A look at some strange incidents at presidential tombs: the skull of Washington, a guard driven mad by standing watch at Garfield’s grave, shots fired and intruders at McKinley’s tomb, and poltergeist-like activities at the Harding holding vault.

Beautiful, royal, martyred, misunderstood: Mary, Queen of Scots was perfectly cast to be a spiritualist icon. Let us look at some of her manifestations in and out of the séance room.

A cavalcade of curious coffins and bizarre burials: standing, sitting, on horseback, in a whiskey barrel, or a brick…

To celebrate the Chinese Year of the Horse, a story about a pale horse and pale rider in an unnamed Canadian city.

A Washington physician, said to be Abraham Lincoln’s doctor, name-drops about his collection of celebrity spirit-photos and autographs.

John Wesley, founder of Methodism, gives an account of the exorcism of a young woman physically tormented by the devil.

As he lay awake at night, a young boy at boarding school heard a strange sound. Out of the deep stillness that surrounded him, he would hear a small faint sound, arising far off in the long corridors outside the dormitory, and gradually approaching the door (which remained open all night) till he could distinguish a tripping, tapping step, like that of some small-hoofed animal….