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med, 'Oh, it must be the master's old aunt Betty,'--an old lady who had lived for many years in the upper part of the house, occupying two rooms, and had died over fifty years ago, at a great age
Read record →"My first impulse was to look around for the origin of this strange force; my second to rush to the looking-glass to make sure of myself
Read record →Kings and queens are not exempt from visitations of the supernatural; indeed, a large number of royal dignitaries have seen "ghosts," and have been haunted by specters in as unpleasant a manner as any ordinary mortal
Read record →"Towards one o'clock, the young man's mother, lying awake, saw his apparition come to the foot of the bed, clad in white, and she screamed with fright, and told her husband what she had seen, and that J
Read record →"We went upstairs together, I being perhaps a couple of steps behind my friend, when, on reaching the topmost step, I felt something suddenly slip behind me from an unoccupied room on the left of the stairs
Read record →"'I am habitually a good sleeper and a stranger to fear, but do what I would, the idea still haunted me that someone was in the room
Read record →"What I have thus tried to describe in many words, I saw at a glance
Read record →On the chair sat G----, looking calmly at me!
Read record →I begged from him some convincing sign or proof so that when the morning came I might rely upon it, and that it was not the phantom of my imagination
Read record →Quick as a flash I turned, and distinctly saw the form of my dead sister, and for a brief second or two looked her squarely in the face; and so sure was I that it was she, that I sprang forward in delight, calling her by name, and, as I did so, the apparition
Read record →It seemed to me that a restraining hand was laid upon mine; I withdrew it quickly, and gazed around me in the darkness
Read record →mphasize the fact that I am speculating, not dogmatizing--that I am speaking from internal evidence, with no possibility of corroboration, and that I am perfectly aware that each reader must take this for what it seems to him worth
Read record →"She was staying in 1893 with her two children at 6 Blake St., a house belonging to Mrs
Read record →That she would lodge with a woman who would tell her that she had a child (drowned) buried in the same churchyard
Read record →When "phantasms of the dead" constantly appear in one house, and there only, that house is said to be "haunted" and, in such a case, the phantasms seem to be attracted to the locality more than to the individuals living in it
Read record →"The figure became much less substantial on its later appearances
Read record →This is one of the most remarkable cases on record
Read record →plant in full bloom, was taken from among Jennie's flowers on the stand near the window; and in a second, a tin pail, with a handle, was brought half-filled with water from the kitchen and placed beside the plant on the floor, both in the center of the parlor,
Read record →During the entire day, I was busy pulling pins out of Esther; they came out of the air from all quarters, and were stuck into all the exposed portions of her person, even the head, and inside of her ears
Read record →"A trumpet was heard in the house all day
Read record →flung the window as wide open as it would go, and before leaving set the door open, with a heavy chair against it; but previous to this (I omitted to mention) as we were looking up at the window after the appearance of the hands, we saw a horrible object come
Read record →"After remaining in the same attitude for what seemed to me an incalculably long time, it gradually receded, and assuming all of a sudden a horizontal attitude, passed head first through the wall opposite to where I sat
Read record →I tried to shriek to my servants; I could not ejaculate a syllable
Read record →"In the spring of the year 1891, great excitement was occasioned by a disembodied spirit in a haunted house in LePort, at Nice
Read record →Hundreds from all over this county and adjacent ones have visited the place, but few have had the courage to pass the night in the haunted house
Read record →the wailing that broke forth from every direction was something terrific, and an unearthly rattle and banging as of china or tin pans being flung to the ground floor from the upper story added to the deafening noise
Read record →"The haunted house in question is near Wandsworth common
Read record →Still I retained pride, if not courage; and in my own mind I said: 'This is horror, but it is not fear; unless I fear I cannot be harmed; my reason rejects this thing; it is an illusion--I do not fear.' With a violent effort I succeeded at last in stretching o
Read record →tly unsubstantial, impalpable, simulacra, phantasms), and there was something incongruous, grotesque, yet fearful in the contrast between the elaborate finery, the courtly precision of that old-fashioned garb, with its ruffles and lace and buckles, and the cor
Read record →"For some time a great knocking having been heard in the night, at the officiating parish clerk's of St
Read record →History abounds in cases showing the apparent intrusion of spiritual help in time of trouble, and in the annals of military history, these accounts are not lacking
Read record →The name 'Babylon' carries with it the sound of a deep, mysterious spell, such a conjuration as might be uttered in the recesses of secret temples
Read record →Among the conquests of this great monarch, whose splendour shines through the shadows of antiquity like the distant flash of arms on a misty day, was the fair island of Cyprus
Read record →It was probably in the reign of this monarch that the queen known in legend as Semiramis lived
Read record →ereof; but the King said that if they were wise men in truth they would know the dream without requiring to be told it, and upon some of the astrologers of the court replying that the request was unreasonable, he was greatly incensed and ordered all of them to
Read record →In his time happened the great deluge; the history of which is given in this manner
Read record →This perhaps related how the earth and its inhabitants were not to the liking of the Creator, and how he resolved to recreate the whole
Read record →of Abram into a fiery furnace at Babylon by order of Nimrod, which seems to be a corrupted story of the deliverance of the three Hebrews recorded by Daniel--Nimrod merely substituted for Nebuchadrezzar, as no evidence exists that Abram ever was at Babylon
Read record →Their relentless search was not the lovers' only anxiety, for in seeking refuge with some shepherds in a meadow, they encountered a demon--a satyr, which in the shape of a goat haunted that part of the country
Read record →Here Sinonis' wound was healed, and afterward they sought refuge with a cottager, whose daughter consented to dispose of some trinkets belonging to Sinonis
Read record →This indicated to him the possibility that their contents were similar
Read record →It was developed from picture-writing, and indeed some of the more highly significant of the pictorial signs can still be faintly traced in their cuneiform equivalents
Read record →They learned of her plot, and great was their wrath
Read record →Soon he came to Tiawath's retreat, but at sight of the monster he halted, and with reason, for there crouched the great dragon, her scaly body still gleaming with the waters of the abyss, flame darting from her eyes and nostrils, and such terrific sounds issui
Read record →We shall probably not be far in error if we regard the myth of the combat between Merodach and Tiawath as an explanation of the primal strife between light and darkness
Read record →The Sumerian incantation, which is provided with a Semitic translation, adds somewhat to our knowledge of this cosmogony
Read record →They did so, and "a great fish" swallowed him
Read record →The picturesque legend of Bel and the Dragon which appears in the Apocrypha, and which was at one time appended to the Book of Daniel, shows us the manner in which Bel was worshipped at Babylon, and how he was supposed to take human shape, devour food, and beh
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