A Whiskey-Drinking Devil Visits Mr Guppy Samuel Guppy, husband to medium Agnes Nichol Guppy, was an ardent advocate of Spiritualism. When the famous American mediums Ira and William Davenport came to England to spread the truths of that religion, a session with Ira brought a naughty devil to Guppy’s door.
The Haunt-Hunter Haunted Psychic researcher Dr. Walter F. Prince, the man who studied the fire-spook of Antigonish and the multiple personalities of “Doris Fischer,” found that his own house was haunted and that the vector was again a young woman.
A Family Bewitched: The Hoffman Poltergeist In 1871 the David Hoffman family of Wooster was attacked by an entity they called “IT.” The poltergeist stole money, food, and seemed to have a special hatred for clothing, which it slashed and shredded. Here is the story of a family haunted and tortured by malignant spirits.
Who Hears a Horton? Froissart’s Helpful Spirit The classic story from Froissart about “Orton” or “Orthon,” a helpful spirit or demon who brought news from afar to the Lord de Corasse.
The Men in Black: Two 19th Century Accounts Well before Indrid Cold and John Keel’s Mothman encounters, we find visitations from mysterious men dressed in black, sometimes accompanied by the same bizarre, poltergeist-like events Keel and others experienced when the Men in Black came to call. Here are two strange 19th-century MIB cases.
Well before Indrid Cold and John Keel’s Mothman encounters, we find visitations from mysterious men dressed in black, sometimes accompanied by the same bizarre, poltergeist-like events Keel and others experienced when the Men in Black came to call. Here are two strange 19th-century MIB cases.
The Little Match Girls: Incendiary Poltergeists Hellish blue flames and mysterious outbreaks of fire: the fire-spook has struck again. Is it a concoction of combustible chemicals? a poltergeist girl? Or a ghost playing with matches?
