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Rsey.--Door opened as if struck by a mallet.--Great excitement.--Glass broken, &c.--Knockings heard in New…

Date of account: Published 1857
Source: The Spirit Land
Reference: The Spirit Land · selected passage 14
Rights: public_domain
Language: English
Record updated: 2026-08-24

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rsey.--Door opened as if struck by a mallet.--Great excitement.--Glass broken, &c.--Knockings heard in New Hackensack.--Pile of lumber shaken; tables, chairs, stand, and candlestick thrown about.--Bags of salt, tin ware, and cooking utensils thrown in a heap.--An English officer haunted by noises in the night.--Heavy marble top tables poising themselves on two legs.--Brass door knockers bewitched.--Commotion among crockery, tin ware, &c.--Firing a gun at noises in the walls. --Tearing up floor to get at the noises.--Suit brought for damages.--Bed of a sick girl raised.--Trembling of the house walls.--Singular pranks in a factory.--Jerking of the frames, and cylinder thrown at a distance.--Alarm and flight of the operatives.--A chest with three men, and a man on a tub, taken up by an invisible power.--A chair broken between two men's hands.--An image seated on a stool, clad in white.--Visions of beings like spirits.--Knockings on the walls, and noises in the air.--A lady suspended by the tips of the fingers, as a magnet suspends a piece of iron.--Electrical flashes from a lady's body.--Knockings made to be heard at a distance.--Quotation from a work by Rev. T.

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