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 Watseka Wonder

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

The Watseka Wonder

THEN HEN the biography of the late Richard Hodgson is written one of its most interesting chapters will be the story of his investigation…

The Watseka Wonder: Vennum

Piper, led him to the enthusiastic indorsement of this hypothesis; but at the time of the Vennum affair, with the recollection of his…

The Watseka Wonder: Stevens

This physician, Dr. E. Winchester Stevens, paid his first visit to Lurancy in Mr. Roff's company on the afternoon of January 31. He found…

The Watseka Wonder: Lurancy

Now followed a strange dialogue. In reply to his queries she said that her name was not Lurancy Vennum but Katrina Hogan, that she was…

The Watseka Wonder: Roff

Come she did, as the greatly bewildered Mr. Vennum testified next morning during a hasty visit to Mr. Roff's office. "My girl," said he…

The Watseka Wonder: Mary

She removed there February 11, and on the way an event occurred that vastly strengthened belief in the reality of her claims. The Vennums…

The Watseka Wonder: Hodgson

Such was the situation at the time of Richard Hodgson's advent. Primarily, as will be remembered by all who have followed the work of the…

The Watseka Wonder: Hanna

Thomas C. Hanna, for knowledge of which the scientific world is indebted to Dr. Boris Sidis.* Following a fall from his carriage, Mr…

The Watseka Wonder: Twoey

Similarly with Dr. R. Osgood Mason's patient, Alma Z., in whom the secondary personality assumed the odd name of "Twoey," spoke, as Dr…

The Watseka Wonder: Tout

Charles H. Tout, of Vancouver, records that after attending a few séances with some friends he felt a strong impulse to turn medium…

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