The Bengal Magazine and Indian Newspaper Reports of Haunted Houses

Record summary

Nineteenth-century Bengali and English periodicals, including publications based in Calcutta, carried stories about haunted houses, apparitions, spirit possession and unexplained deaths. Rather than treating this as one event, it is a discovery lead for named reports recoverable through newspaper archives, printed indexes and reprinted folklore collections. Such material can reveal hoaxes, neighborhood rumor, racialized colonial settings and conventional explanations. A researcher should identify a particular article, date, address and named witness before elevating any item to a case-level record.