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One can only surmise the identity of such phantasms, after becoming acquainted with the history of the locality in which such manifestations appear
Read record →He would sometimes throw a boot at it, and always with the same result--the boot would go right through it." She then told me that a former tenant of the house, who had borne an evil reputation in the village--the peasants unanimously declaring she was a witch
Read record →Fortunately for my informant, the manifestation was brief
Read record →Dyer, in his Ghost World, a man who hanged himself at Broomfield, near Salisbury, manifested himself in the guise of a huge black dog; whilst the Lady Howard of James I.'s reign, for her many misdeeds, not the least of which was getting rid of her husbands, wa
Read record →nd "trash": the latter name being given it on account of its heavy, slopping walk; and the former appellation from its curious screech, which is a sure indication of some approaching death or calamity
Read record →Intuitively I recognise the superphysical; it is the same species of cold which invariably heralds its approach
Read record →ugh they have been abnormally large and alarming, only once--and I am anxious to forget that time--were they anything like as offensive as many of the ghostly dogs that have manifested themselves to me
Read record →"A hideous stupor now began to assert itself, and as I strained to keep my lids from closing, I watched with a thrill of terror a fiendish look of expectancy creep into the white, gleaming face of the stranger
Read record →Had he advanced with a war-whoop it would have made little or no difference--the man and his atmosphere paralysed me--I was held in the chair by iron bonds that swathed themselves round hands, and feet, and tongue
Read record →Ennemoser, entitled The Phantom World, Hungary was at one time full of vampires
Read record →but my not having been thus fortunate, or rather unfortunate, does not make me so discourteous as to disbelieve those who tell me that they have seen a vampire--that peculiar, indefinably peculiar shape that, wriggling along the ground from one tombstone to an
Read record →Closely allied to the vampire is the were-wolf, which, however, instead of devouring the intellect of human beings, feeds only on their flesh
Read record →He sought her eyes, and all but fainted again--the expression in them appalled him
Read record →Thinking that the animal was ill, and delighted at the prospect of lending it aid, for silver foxes are regarded as of good omen in China, Ching Kang approached it, and was about to examine it carefully, when to his astonishment he found he could not move--he
Read record →An occult manifestation of sorts has invariably followed
Read record →According to the account of the Rev
Read record →I love ravens--they have the greatest fascination for me
Read record →Who would not, if they could, believe in mermaids?
Read record →No story fascinated me more when I was a boy than that of Ahasuerus, the Wandering Jew
Read record →at are antagonistic to man's spiritual progress, whose function it is to lead us into all sorts of mental, moral, and spiritual evil, and also to bring about our path some bodily harm
Read record →Some say their attachment to a family is due to some crime perpetrated by a member of that family in the far dim past, whilst others attribute it to the fact that certain classes and races in bygone times dabbled in sorcery, thus attracting the elementals, whi
Read record →The Airlie family, whose headquarters are at Cortachy Castle, is haunted by the phantasm of a drummer that beats a tattoo before the death of one of the members of the clan
Read record →In addition to corpse-candles and blue lights, the Welsh, according to Mr Wirt Sykes, in his work, British Goblins, pp
Read record →Indeed, the latter is far from rare, and there are instances of women having filled other women with the blindest infatuation for them--an infatuation surpassing that of the most doting lovers, and, without doubt, generated by undue influence, or, in other wor
Read record →I do not base this statement on any experience I have ever had, for it is a rather singular fact that, although I have seen many spontaneous phenomena in haunted houses, I have never seen anything resembling, in the slightest degree, a genuine spirit form, at
Read record →ld scarcely make out anything owing to a blaze of light, but as soon as his eyes grew accustomed to the illumination, he perceived that he was standing near a huge faggot fire, around which squatted a score or so of the most hideous hags he had ever conceived
Read record →I have, as I have previously stated in my work, The Haunted Houses of London, succeeded, on one occasion, in separating at will, my immaterial from my material body
Read record →Though telepathy between two very wakeful minds is an established fact, I do not think it is generally known that it can also take place between two minds when asleep, or between one person awake and another asleep, and yet I have proved this to be the case
Read record →There is still a belief in certain parts of the Hebrides that second sight was once obtained there through a practice called "The Taigheirm." This rite, which is said to have been last performed about the middle of the seventeenth century, consisted in roastin
Read record →I am of the opinion that all this is due to animal magnetism, and to the unconscious efforts of the audience, who are ever anxious for the ghost to come and something startling to happen
Read record →But since ghosts can and do show themselves spontaneously in haunted houses, why the necessity of musical instruments, professional medium, and sitting round a table with fingers linked?
Read record →rather than otherwise, because the custom is innate in me, and is, perhaps, with various other customs, the heritage of all my race from ages past; but I cannot say it always or even often answers, for ghosts frequently manifest themselves to me in spite of it
Read record →Again according to Mr Dyer, when a spot was haunted by the spirit of a murderer or suicide who lay buried there, a magic circle was made just over the grave, and he who was daring enough to venture there, at midnight, preferably when the elements were at their
Read record →In China the method of expelling ghosts from haunted houses has been described as follows:--An altar containing tapers and incense sticks is erected in the spot where the manifestations are most frequent
Read record →From time to time, one still hears of a phantom ship being seen, in various parts of the world
Read record →A fisherman of the same town--the town to which the lifeboat that had gone to the rescue of the phantom ship belonged--told me, when I was out with him one evening in his boat, that one of the oldest inhabitants of the place had on one occasion, when the phant
Read record →I very often sound sailors as to whether they have ever come across this ominous vessel, and sometimes hear very enthralling accounts of it
Read record →Never shall I forget the horror of those grins
Read record →"For some seconds no one stirred; and then, as if under the influence of some hypnotic spell, one by one, each of the crew, with the exception of the cabin-boy, got up, and, marching in Indian file to the spot where the apparition had vanished, flung themselve
Read record →Along the coast of Brittany are many haunted spots, none more so than the "Bay of the Departed," where, in the dead of night, wails and cries, presumably uttered by the phantasms of drowned sailors, are distinctly heard by the terrified peasantry on shore
Read record →In China there is a strong belief that spots in rivers, creeks, and ponds where people have been drowned are haunted by devils that, concealing themselves either in the water itself or on the banks, spring out upon the unwary and drown them
Read record →t girls, I could not help being struck with this one, whilst Hans, who was several years older than I, was simply spellbound
Read record →"To my immeasurable relief, however, this did not happen
Read record →Being naturally greatly astonished and perturbed, I made careful inquiries, and, at length--for the North Country rustic is most reticent and difficult to "draw"--succeeded in extracting from three of them the reason for the general exodus
Read record →The stones of the circle opposite were ghoulish, hump-backed things that crouched and squatted in all kinds of fantastic attitudes and tried to read my thoughts
Read record →I had wanted to see him; I had wanted to meet the Kirlbys; but a ghost--no!
Read record →"One o'clock struck, and ere the hollow-sounding vibrations had ceased, the vague form once again appeared behind the chair, and the malignant, evil eyes met mine in a diabolical stare; whilst, as before, on trying to speak or move, I found myself tongue-tied
Read record →"I did not tell Achrow what I had experienced, but expressed, instead, the greatest astonishment that anyone should have thought the room was haunted
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