Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters

Eleven famous hauntings examined by a man who believed the question deserved evidence — Loudun, Tedworth, the Wesleys' parsonage, the Cock Lane ghost — and then the investigators who went after them.

The Seeress of Prevorst

5 pages in this part of Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters.

The Seeress of Prevorst

ODERN spiritism, as every student of that fascinating if elusive subject is aware, dates from the closing years of the first half of the…

The Seeress of Prevorst: Frederica

One night, shortly after retiring to the room which they shared in common, Frederica, her sister, and a maid servant saw a lighted candle…

The Seeress of Prevorst: Kerner

Kerner, who is better known to the present generation as mystic and poet than as physician, was justly accounted one of the celebrities of…

The Seeress of Prevorst: Weinsberg

And so, with the ardor of the enthusiast and the sympathy of the true physician, he welcomed to Weinsberg the sufferer of whom he had heard…

The Seeress of Prevorst: Oberstenfeld

Then ensued greater marvels than had ever bewitched the family at Oberstenfeld. Invisible hands threw articles of furniture at the…

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