The Great Pulaski spirit case in twentieth-century occult literature

Record summary

The Pulaski spirit case, associated with the nineteenth-century manifestations around the Bell family, was repeatedly reprinted and reinterpreted in early twentieth-century ghost, occult and psychical-research literature. Accounts describe disturbances, a purported communicating presence and family testimony, though the historical record is entangled with local legend and later literary shaping. It matters for comparing how a regional haunting becomes a standardized case file. Researchers should distinguish documented nineteenth-century publications from 1900–1946 compilations that may have normalized or embellished the narrative.