1874 PAR CROGLIN GRANGE CROGLIN GRANGE - ENGLAND'S FOUNDATIONAL VAMPIRE LEGEND 1874. Cumberland, England. Captain Fisher-Rowe tells writer Augustus Hare of a vampire attacking his family's tenant at Croglin Grange, predating Dracula by two decades. No independent source, folklore reference, or property record has ever confirmed the story, and a 2012 systematic search of contemporary Cumbrian folklore found no trace of it before Hare's own account. 1874. Cumberland, England. Captain Fisher-Rowe tells writer Augustus Hare of a vampire attacking his family's tenant at Croglin Grange, predating Dracula by two decades. No independent source, folklore reference, or property record has ever confirmed the story, and a 2012 systematic search of contemporary Cumbrian folklore found no trace of it before Hare's own account. 1992 PAR SALLIE HOUSE SALLIE HOUSE - THE NAMED GHOST WITH NO RECORD 1992 to 1994. Atchison, Kansas. Tony and Debra Pickman report escalating paranormal activity, including a fire caught on camera by a visiting TV crew. The house's legend centers on a girl named Sallie who died there. No birth, death, or medical record has ever confirmed she existed. The prior owner lived there three decades with no reported activity at all. 1992 to 1994. Atchison, Kansas. Tony and Debra Pickman report escalating paranormal activity, including a fire caught on camera by a visiting TV crew. The house's legend centers on a girl named Sallie who died there. No birth, death, or medical record has ever confirmed she existed. The prior owner lived there three decades with no reported activity at all. 1910 PAR WAVERLY HILLS SANATORIUM WAVERLY HILLS SANATORIUM - THE INFLATED DEATH TOLL 1910 to 1961. Louisville, Kentucky. A tuberculosis sanatorium widely marketed as having 63,000 deaths. Independent research using surviving physician records places the true figure closer to 5,000 to 8,000. The facility's later Woodhaven geriatric era, shut down by the state in 1982 for confirmed patient abuse, draws far less attention. 1910 to 1961. Louisville, Kentucky. A tuberculosis sanatorium widely marketed as having 63,000 deaths. Independent research using surviving physician records places the true figure closer to 5,000 to 8,000. The facility's later Woodhaven geriatric era, shut down by the state in 1982 for confirmed patient abuse, draws far less attention. 1946 PAR LALAURIE MANSION LALAURIE MANSION - DOCUMENTED CRUELTY AND A 1946 LEGEND April 1834. New Orleans. A fire at Delphine LaLaurie's Royal Street mansion reveals seven enslaved people bound and severely abused. LaLaurie flees before prosecution. The documented 1834 record establishes real, sustained cruelty; the surgical-experiment and mutilation claims that dominate modern tours trace to a single 1946 book, not to any contemporaneous source. April 1834. New Orleans. A fire at Delphine LaLaurie's Royal Street mansion reveals seven enslaved people bound and severely abused. LaLaurie flees before prosecution. The documented 1834 record establishes real, sustained cruelty; the surgical-experiment and mutilation claims that dominate modern tours trace to a single 1946 book, not to any contemporaneous source. 1949 PAR ST. LOUIS EXORCISM ST. LOUIS EXORCISM - THE REAL CASE BEHIND THE EXORCIST January to April 1949. Cottage City, Maryland and St. Louis, Missouri. A fourteen-year-old boy undergoes an estimated twenty to thirty Catholic exorcism rites, documented in a priest's contemporaneous diary. Identified in 2021 as Ronald Hunkeler, later a NASA engineer. The priest closest to the case never claimed certainty it was genuine. January to April 1949. Cottage City, Maryland and St. Louis, Missouri. A fourteen-year-old boy undergoes an estimated twenty to thirty Catholic exorcism rites, documented in a priest's contemporaneous diary. Identified in 2021 as Ronald Hunkeler, later a NASA engineer. The priest closest to the case never claimed certainty it was genuine. 1878 PAR WATSEKA WONDER WATSEKA WONDER - THE 1878 LURANCY VENNUM POSSESSION CASE July 1877 to May 1878. Watseka, Illinois. Thirteen-year-old Lurancy Vennum, facing asylum commitment for severe seizures, begins presenting consistently as Mary Roff, a young woman who died before Lurancy was born. An 1890 investigator confirmed the events occurred as described, while naming an early form of dissociative identity as the untested alternative. July 1877 to May 1878. Watseka, Illinois. Thirteen-year-old Lurancy Vennum, facing asylum commitment for severe seizures, begins presenting consistently as Mary Roff, a young woman who died before Lurancy was born. An 1890 investigator confirmed the events occurred as described, while naming an early form of dissociative identity as the untested alternative. 1883 PAR NIGHTMARCHERS NIGHTMARCHERS - HAWAIIAN COLUMN TEACHING WITH NO TRAILHEAD Nightmarchers. Hawaiian teaching: a column on the old roads that will not step aside for the living. Folklore first. No trailhead. No how-to. Same refusal as Wendigo, different ocean. No definitive map closes the route. No-map status still keeps the night procession on the teaching shelf without a tourist path. Nightmarchers. Hawaiian teaching: a column on the old roads that will not step aside for the living. Folklore first. No trailhead. No how-to. Same refusal as Wendigo, different ocean. No definitive map closes the route. No-map status still keeps the night procession on the teaching shelf without a tourist path. 1671 PAR PEEL CASTLE PEEL CASTLE - MANX MODDEY DHOO HOUND UNTYPED Peel Castle, Isle of Man. Moddey Dhoo, a black hound of the garrison passages and the fire. Folklore on real stone—the castle is the object. Black Shuck is the Suffolk cousin; this page is the Manx house. No hide. Hound-untyped legend still rides the fortress fabric without a specimen from the passages. Peel Castle, Isle of Man. Moddey Dhoo, a black hound of the garrison passages and the fire. Folklore on real stone—the castle is the object. Black Shuck is the Suffolk cousin; this page is the Manx house. No hide. Hound-untyped legend still rides the fortress fabric without a specimen from the passages. 1910 PAR SANDRINGHAM SANDRINGHAM - ROYAL HOUSE FENCE UP, PRIVATE FLOOR SHUT Sandringham, Norfolk. Royal working house. Staff stories of a corridor, a figure, a room someone would rather not lock alone. Guides hang names. Family issues no finding. Fence up. Private floor left shut. Unease at the end of a landing. File status is entered as fence up. Sandringham, Norfolk. Royal working house. Staff stories of a corridor, a figure, a room someone would rather not lock alone. Guides hang names. Family issues no finding. Fence up. Private floor left shut. Unease at the end of a landing. File status is entered as fence up. 1970 PAR ANNABELLE ANNABELLE - RAGGEDY ANN IN GLASS STILL RAG Raggedy Ann given to a nursing student in 1970. Warrens later take it to Monroe, Connecticut, and put it in glass. Notes and movement are the sold story. The museum doll is still a rag doll; the cinema face is later. Rag-in-glass exhibit still separates the cloth toy from the Hollywood mask on the Annabelle card. Raggedy Ann given to a nursing student in 1970. Warrens later take it to Monroe, Connecticut, and put it in glass. Notes and movement are the sold story. The museum doll is still a rag doll; the cinema face is later. Rag-in-glass exhibit still separates the cloth toy from the Hollywood mask on the Annabelle card. 1536 PAR TOWER OF LONDON TOWER OF LONDON - SCAFFOLD SITE, ANNE BOLEYN, RAVENS PAID Tower of London. Working fortress. Scaffold for Anne Boleyn was here on 19 May 1536, not at Blickling. Talk also gives the Princes, Lady Jane, and ravens kept so the Crown stays. Historic Royal Palaces runs the stones; ravens are paid. Scaffold-here geography still anchors the ghost walk in a real execution site. Tower of London. Working fortress. Scaffold for Anne Boleyn was here on 19 May 1536, not at Blickling. Talk also gives the Princes, Lady Jane, and ravens kept so the Crown stays. Historic Royal Palaces runs the stones; ravens are paid. Scaffold-here geography still anchors the ghost walk in a real execution site. 1904 PAR ROBERT THE DOLL ROBERT THE DOLL - KEY WEST CLOTH DOLL AND SORRY NOTES Key West. A sailor-suited doll made for Robert Eugene Otto, now in the East Martello museum. Guests write apology notes to cloth. Cameras said to misbehave. Doll is cloth; notes are paper. Case locked as folklore. Sorry-notes practice still defines Robert the Doll as museum ritual without a verified moving agent. Key West. A sailor-suited doll made for Robert Eugene Otto, now in the East Martello museum. Guests write apology notes to cloth. Cameras said to misbehave. Doll is cloth; notes are paper. Case locked as folklore. Sorry-notes practice still defines Robert the Doll as museum ritual without a verified moving agent. 1477 PAR CHATEAU DE BRISSAC CHATEAU DE BRISSAC - LOIRE GREEN DRESS HEARD MORE THAN SEEN Château de Brissac, Loire. Family still in residence. Tours keep La Dame Verte: Charlotte de Brézé, or a woman of that circle, killed in the fifteenth century, walks in green and is heard more than she is seen. No forensic file. Green-dress legend still rides the inhabited Loire house without a body or court paper. Château de Brissac, Loire. Family still in residence. Tours keep La Dame Verte: Charlotte de Brézé, or a woman of that circle, killed in the fifteenth century, walks in green and is heard more than she is seen. No forensic file. Green-dress legend still rides the inhabited Loire house without a body or court paper. 1960 PAR ANCIENT RAM INN ANCIENT RAM INN - WOTTON PUB HAUNT TRADE, BURIAL UNTAGGED Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. Stone pub claiming the twelfth century. Caroline Humphries from the 1960s sells a pagan burial, a priest's room, an incubus. Television and paid nights. Burial untagged. The pumps still had to work on a Tuesday. File status is entered as pumps tuesday. Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. Stone pub claiming the twelfth century. Caroline Humphries from the 1960s sells a pagan burial, a priest's room, an incubus. Television and paid nights. Burial untagged. The pumps still had to work on a Tuesday. File status is entered as pumps tuesday. 1936 PAR RAYNHAM HALL RAYNHAM HALL - 1936 BROWN LADY STAIR PLATE Raynham Hall, Norfolk. 1936: Country Life men Provand and Shira go to shoot a house and expose a plate on the oak stairs. It develops a pale woman in a gown, printed as the Brown Lady; Dorothy Walpole named later. Negative still argued. 1936 plate remains the Norfolk exhibit without a settled identification. Raynham Hall, Norfolk. 1936: Country Life men Provand and Shira go to shoot a house and expose a plate on the oak stairs. It develops a pale woman in a gown, printed as the Brown Lady; Dorothy Walpole named later. Negative still argued. 1936 plate remains the Norfolk exhibit without a settled identification. 1536 PAR BLICKLING HALL BLICKLING HALL - ANNE BOLEYN ANNIVERSARY WITH NO GRAVE HERE Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Present house from 1616 on older Boleyn ground. Anne dies in London 19 May 1536. Gate still circles the anniversary. Birthplace fought with Hever. No grave here. They will not open a grave for it. File status is entered as no grave here. Blickling Hall, Norfolk. Present house from 1616 on older Boleyn ground. Anne dies in London 19 May 1536. Gate still circles the anniversary. Birthplace fought with Hever. No grave here. They will not open a grave for it. File status is entered as no grave here. 1875 PAR CALVADOS CASTLE CALVADOS CASTLE - NOYERS GREEN ROOM COOK DIARY OF DISTURBANCES Chateau des Noyers, Calvados. From 12 October 1875 the house will not quiet: furniture, blows, stairs the cook will not call human. Cook's diary. Sale 1877. Fire 1984 leaves one room. No named spirit proved. These steps have nothing of the human step. File status is entered as green room. Chateau des Noyers, Calvados. From 12 October 1875 the house will not quiet: furniture, blows, stairs the cook will not call human. Cook's diary. Sale 1877. Fire 1984 leaves one room. No named spirit proved. These steps have nothing of the human step. File status is entered as green room. 1829 PAR HAMPTON COURT HAMPTON COURT - GALLERY TALK AND FIRE-DOOR CCTV STILL Hampton Court. Talk gives Catherine Howard on the Haunted Gallery, Jane Seymour, and Sybil Penn after 1829. 2003 fire-door CCTV still; papers name Skeletor. Palace puts none of them on a payroll. Gallery-pause folklore still needs names while the door only needed a frame for the camera event. Hampton Court. Talk gives Catherine Howard on the Haunted Gallery, Jane Seymour, and Sybil Penn after 1829. 2003 fire-door CCTV still; papers name Skeletor. Palace puts none of them on a payroll. Gallery-pause folklore still needs names while the door only needed a frame for the camera event. 1852 PAR WHALEY HOUSE WHALEY HOUSE - SCAFFOLD LOT THEN MUSEUM IN OLD TOWN Old Town San Diego. Yankee Jim Robinson hanged on the lot 18 September 1852. Thomas Whaley builds 1857 and names heavy second-floor steps for Jim. House later a museum. Scaffold is the fact under the parlour. The name they gave him that morning. File status is entered as lot first. Old Town San Diego. Yankee Jim Robinson hanged on the lot 18 September 1852. Thomas Whaley builds 1857 and names heavy second-floor steps for Jim. House later a museum. Scaffold is the fact under the parlour. The name they gave him that morning. File status is entered as lot first. 1884 PAR MONTE CRISTO MONTE CRISTO - JUNEE HOMESTEAD PUBLIC TOURS, GATE CLOSED Junee, New South Wales. Crawley builds Monte Cristo homestead 1884-85 and dies there 14 December 1910. Widow stays. Ryans buy in 1963 and sell it as Australia’s most haunted, claiming two occasions in twenty-three years. Public tickets end after January 2025. Gate-closed tourism still leaves the homestead’s haunt claims on older tour paper. Junee, New South Wales. Crawley builds Monte Cristo homestead 1884-85 and dies there 14 December 1910. Widow stays. Ryans buy in 1963 and sell it as Australia’s most haunted, claiming two occasions in twenty-three years. Public tickets end after January 2025. Gate-closed tourism still leaves the homestead’s haunt claims on older tour paper. 1298 PAR CHILLINGHAM CHILLINGHAM - CASTLE WALL BONES AND BLUE FABRIC SCRAP Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. Edward I lodges in 1298. Pink Room talk. 1920s works cut a passage and find small bones and a scrap of blue fabric; the churchyard takes them. Flash photography later. Blue-cloth fragment and wall bones still anchor the Northumberland ghost story in a real find. Chillingham Castle, Northumberland. Edward I lodges in 1298. Pink Room talk. 1920s works cut a passage and find small bones and a scrap of blue fabric; the churchyard takes them. Flash photography later. Blue-cloth fragment and wall bones still anchor the Northumberland ghost story in a real find. 1796 PAR MYRTLES PLANTATION MYRTLES PLANTATION - CHLOE BROCHURE NAME NOT IN CENSUS Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville. House 1796. Night trade sells Chloe, an enslaved woman not in the census. Woodruff yellow-fever deaths in the 1820s already sit in the paper; the brochure rarely starts there. Not-in-census haunting pitch still outruns the documented fever deaths on the Louisiana tour card. Myrtles Plantation, St. Francisville. House 1796. Night trade sells Chloe, an enslaved woman not in the census. Woodruff yellow-fever deaths in the 1820s already sit in the paper; the brochure rarely starts there. Not-in-census haunting pitch still outruns the documented fever deaths on the Louisiana tour card. 1612 PAR LITTLEDEAN HALL LITTLEDEAN HALL - CELLARS AND BAT ROOST IN FOREST OF DEAN Littledean Hall, Forest of Dean. Cellars read as late antique and Saxon. Jacobean skin 1612. Pyke story dated 1744. Official paper from 1986 names a greater horseshoe bat roost. Figures untyped. The only resident with a Latin name. File status is entered as bat roost. Littledean Hall, Forest of Dean. Cellars read as late antique and Saxon. Jacobean skin 1612. Pyke story dated 1744. Official paper from 1986 names a greater horseshoe bat roost. Figures untyped. The only resident with a Latin name. File status is entered as bat roost. 1716 PAR GLAMIS GLAMIS - CASTLE TOWEL HUNT, HIDDEN WINDOW CLOSED Glamis Castle, Angus. Seat of the Lyons, later Bowes-Lyon. Earl Beardie Saturday card-game talk. Nineteenth-century towel hunt for a hidden window; the family took the towels down. No opened suite. Towels-down end still leaves the secret-room legend without a chamber the public inventory can show. Glamis Castle, Angus. Seat of the Lyons, later Bowes-Lyon. Earl Beardie Saturday card-game talk. Nineteenth-century towel hunt for a hidden window; the family took the towels down. No opened suite. Towels-down end still leaves the secret-room legend without a chamber the public inventory can show. 1886 PAR BERRY POMEROY BERRY POMEROY - CASTLE RUIN WHITE AND BLUE LADY FOLKLORE Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon. Ruin of Pomeroy and Seymour stone; English Heritage keeps the masonry. Guidebooks sell a White Lady and a Blue Lady as folklore colour labels. No tagged bones underwrite either name. Two-ladies guidebook trade still rides the ruin while Heritage holds only stone on the inventory. Berry Pomeroy Castle, Devon. Ruin of Pomeroy and Seymour stone; English Heritage keeps the masonry. Guidebooks sell a White Lady and a Blue Lady as folklore colour labels. No tagged bones underwrite either name. Two-ladies guidebook trade still rides the ruin while Heritage holds only stone on the inventory. 1553 PAR SAWSTON HALL SAWSTON HALL - TUDOR PRIEST HOLES AND MARY TUDOR STAY Sawston Hall, Cambridgeshire. Tudor house with priest holes in the masonry. Mary Tudor said to have slept here in 1553. Woman on the stairs is a later report. No primary still this cabinet will hang. Priest holes are masonry fact; later stair reports stay softer. Sawston Hall, Cambridgeshire. Tudor house with priest holes in the masonry. Mary Tudor said to have slept here in 1553. Woman on the stairs is a later report. No primary still this cabinet will hang. Priest holes are masonry fact; later stair reports stay softer. 1930 PAR RESURRECTION MARY RESURRECTION MARY - WHITE HITCHHIKER GONE AT CEMETERY FENCE Archer Avenue past Resurrection Cemetery, Justice, Illinois. From the 1930s, a hitchhiker in white who asks out at the gates and is gone at the fence. Dance talk at the old Oh Henry. No tagged grave. Gone-at-fence vanishing still defines Resurrection Mary as roadside lore without a matched burial record. Archer Avenue past Resurrection Cemetery, Justice, Illinois. From the 1930s, a hitchhiker in white who asks out at the gates and is gone at the fence. Dance talk at the old Oh Henry. No tagged grave. Gone-at-fence vanishing still defines Resurrection Mary as roadside lore without a matched burial record. 1974 PAR SMURL HAUNTING SMURL HAUNTING - WEST PITTSTON, WARRENS, KURTZ CALLS HOAX West Pittston Smurl house from 1974. Warrens arrive in 1986. Diocesan investigator Kurtz calls it hoax, charade, ghost story. Family does not vacate on Kurtz’s timetable. Possession claims and the family’s refusal to leave still sit beside the official dismissive finding on the Pennsylvania card. West Pittston Smurl house from 1974. Warrens arrive in 1986. Diocesan investigator Kurtz calls it hoax, charade, ghost story. Family does not vacate on Kurtz’s timetable. Possession claims and the family’s refusal to leave still sit beside the official dismissive finding on the Pennsylvania card. 2014 PAR AMMONS HOUSE AMMONS HOUSE - GARY WALL MEMO HOUSE LATER DEMOLISHED Ammons house, Gary, Indiana. DCS caseworker wall memo records disturbances; local Star coverage in 2014. House later demolished. The caseworker does not recant the wall. Wall-memo paper still outlasts the structure, leaving the Indiana possession claim on social-services and press shelves. Ammons house, Gary, Indiana. DCS caseworker wall memo records disturbances; local Star coverage in 2014. House later demolished. The caseworker does not recant the wall. Wall-memo paper still outlasts the structure, leaving the Indiana possession claim on social-services and press shelves. 1882 PAR MORTON CASE MORTON CASE - DESPARD HANDKERCHIEF FIGURE IN CHELTENHAM Cheltenham, June 1882. Rosina Despard sees a tall woman with the face hidden in a handkerchief on the Morton house stairs. SPR publishes the case in 1892. Handkerchief-hidden face remains the visual constant of the Morton ghost; no identity beyond the household tradition was fixed. Cheltenham, June 1882. Rosina Despard sees a tall woman with the face hidden in a handkerchief on the Morton house stairs. SPR publishes the case in 1892. Handkerchief-hidden face remains the visual constant of the Morton ghost; no identity beyond the household tradition was fixed. 1956 PAR BATTERSEA POLTERGEIST BATTERSEA POLTERGEIST - KEY FITS NOTHING ON WYCLIFFE ROAD 63 Wycliffe Road, Battersea, from 27 January 1956. A key appears on the bed that fits nothing; Chibbett investigates; police attend an exorcism. He tried it in every lock in the house. Key-on-the-bed paper still opens the Battersea poltergeist without a lock that ever matched. 63 Wycliffe Road, Battersea, from 27 January 1956. A key appears on the bed that fits nothing; Chibbett investigates; police attend an exorcism. He tried it in every lock in the house. Key-on-the-bed paper still opens the Battersea poltergeist without a lock that ever matched. 1958 PAR SEAFORD POLTERGEIST SEAFORD POLTERGEIST - HERRMANN HOUSE WITH SIXTY-SEVEN BOTTLE EVENTS Herrmann house, Seaford, Long Island, 3 February 1958. Bottles blowing their tops across the rooms. Pratt and Roll count sixty-seven events. Sixty-seven bottle events remain the quantified spine of the Seaford poltergeist; no outside agent was ever held for the popping. Herrmann house, Seaford, Long Island, 3 February 1958. Bottles blowing their tops across the rooms. Pratt and Roll count sixty-seven events. Sixty-seven bottle events remain the quantified spine of the Seaford poltergeist; no outside agent was ever held for the popping. 1938 PAR THORNTON HEATH THORNTON HEATH - FODOR CROCKERY CASE ON BEVERSTONE ROAD Beverstone Road, Thornton Heath, 1938. Crockery in motion; Nandor Fodor investigates a laboratory that still had dishes in the air. Later colleagues condemn his methods. Fodor case logs aerial crockery on the Surrey card while the methodological dispute stays attached to his name. Beverstone Road, Thornton Heath, 1938. Crockery in motion; Nandor Fodor investigates a laboratory that still had dishes in the air. Later colleagues condemn his methods. Fodor case logs aerial crockery on the Surrey card while the methodological dispute stays attached to his name. 1974 PAR AMITYVILLE AMITYVILLE - DEFEO MURDERS AND LUTZ TWENTY-EIGHT DAYS Amityville. DeFeo murders on 13 November 1974 are proven in court. Lutz family lasts twenty-eight days in the house; Anson’s book follows. The murders stay proven; the twenty-eight-day haunting remains contested paper. Long Island file still separates homicide record from the later occult narrative. Amityville. DeFeo murders on 13 November 1974 are proven in court. Lutz family lasts twenty-eight days in the house; Anson’s book follows. The murders stay proven; the twenty-eight-day haunting remains contested paper. Long Island file still separates homicide record from the later occult narrative. 1840 PAR WILLINGTON MILL WILLINGTON MILL - PROCTER HOUSE CLEAN SOOT AND DRURY VIGIL Willington Mill on Tyneside. Procter house reports a nailed room that still fills with clean soot, as if not even a mouse had stirred the dust. Drury vigil on 3 July 1840. Family leaves. Clean-soot and nailed-room paper still define a mill haunting without an agent caught in the chamber. Willington Mill on Tyneside. Procter house reports a nailed room that still fills with clean soot, as if not even a mouse had stirred the dust. Drury vigil on 3 July 1840. Family leaves. Clean-soot and nailed-room paper still define a mill haunting without an agent caught in the chamber. 1913 PAR PATIENCE WORTH PATIENCE WORTH - CURRAN BOARD THEN NOVELS IN ST LOUIS Pearl Curran, St. Louis, 8 July 1913. Ouija board yields Patience Worth, who says she makes her bread at Curran’s hearth; novels follow. In 1918 Patience is listed among living authors. Board then books; authorship listed while the seventeenth-century source stayed unseen and unproven. Pearl Curran, St. Louis, 8 July 1913. Ouija board yields Patience Worth, who says she makes her bread at Curran’s hearth; novels follow. In 1918 Patience is listed among living authors. Board then books; authorship listed while the seventeenth-century source stayed unseen and unproven. 1765 PAR HINTON AMPNER HINTON AMPNER - RICKETTS HOUSE SLAMMING DOORS, LATER DEMOLISHED Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Mary Ricketts’s 1765 memoir records slamming doors and voices she could not quote, rather slapping doors with vehemence. Old house later demolished. Slamming-door memoir remains; the rooms themselves are gone, leaving the poltergeist on paper without a standing fabric. Hinton Ampner, Hampshire. Mary Ricketts’s 1765 memoir records slamming doors and voices she could not quote, rather slapping doors with vehemence. Old house later demolished. Slamming-door memoir remains; the rooms themselves are gone, leaving the poltergeist on paper without a standing fabric. 1716 PAR EPWORTH RECTORY EPWORTH RECTORY - WESLEY HOUSEHOLD AND OLD JEFFREY NOISES December 1716. Epworth Rectory. Wesley household disturbances; Susannah’s letter names Old Jeffrey. Bottles that were not broken; a candle taken into an empty hall. House still stands in Lincolnshire. Rectory night paper remains a Methodist family account without an identified maker in the rooms. December 1716. Epworth Rectory. Wesley household disturbances; Susannah’s letter names Old Jeffrey. Bottles that were not broken; a candle taken into an empty hall. House still stands in Lincolnshire. Rectory night paper remains a Methodist family account without an identified maker in the rooms. 1998 PAR MACKENZIE POLTERGEIST MACKENZIE POLTERGEIST - GREYFRIARS VAULT FLOOR FALL, DOOR LOCKED Greyfriars, Edinburgh. Bluidy Mackenzie’s vault. In 1998-99 a visitor falls through the vault floor after coming in from the cold; the council locks the section. Tours sell the lock afterward. Vault-floor incident and the closed aisle still carry the Mackenzie poltergeist as cemetery paper with a real injury. Greyfriars, Edinburgh. Bluidy Mackenzie’s vault. In 1998-99 a visitor falls through the vault floor after coming in from the cold; the council locks the section. Tours sell the lock afterward. Vault-floor incident and the closed aisle still carry the Mackenzie poltergeist as cemetery paper with a real injury. 1661 PAR DRUMMER OF TEDWORTH DRUMMER OF TEDWORTH - SEIZED DRUM AND HOUSE TATTOOS IN GLANVILL 1661-63. John Mompesson seizes William Drury’s drum at Tedworth; the house answers in military tattoos. Glanvill prints the case; Pepys reads it at Christmas. Drury’s line: he shall never have his quiet again, till I have my drum. Seized-drum paper still opens the early English poltergeist shelf. 1661-63. John Mompesson seizes William Drury’s drum at Tedworth; the house answers in military tattoos. Glanvill prints the case; Pepys reads it at Christmas. Drury’s line: he shall never have his quiet again, till I have my drum. Seized-drum paper still opens the early English poltergeist shelf. 1993 PAR SCOLE EXPERIMENT SCOLE EXPERIMENT - NORFOLK CELLAR LIGHTS IN COMPLETE DARKNESS Norfolk cellar at Scole, 1993-98. Lights and image effects in complete darkness, the condition the circle would not give up. SPR investigators visit; wristbands used. It stopped in 1998. Cellar lights in darkness are logged; the darkness condition was never surrendered for a lit control. Norfolk cellar at Scole, 1993-98. Lights and image effects in complete darkness, the condition the circle would not give up. SPR investigators visit; wristbands used. It stopped in 1998. Cellar lights in darkness are logged; the darkness condition was never surrendered for a lit control. 1984 PAR TINA RESCH TINA RESCH - COLUMBUS DISPATCH TELEPHONE FRAME SEQUENCE Columbus, March 1984. Tina Resch, fourteen, in a packed room. Columbus Dispatch telephone and lamp frames; a crew tape of objects moving while Shannon pretends attention elsewhere. Dispatch frames are on paper; the telephone sequence remains the main exhibit of the Ohio poltergeist week. Columbus, March 1984. Tina Resch, fourteen, in a packed room. Columbus Dispatch telephone and lamp frames; a crew tape of objects moving while Shannon pretends attention elsewhere. Dispatch frames are on paper; the telephone sequence remains the main exhibit of the Ohio poltergeist week. 1762 PAR COCK LANE COCK LANE - SCRATCHING FANNY AT GUILDHALL CLOSE, LONDON London 1762. Cock Lane scratching attributed to Fanny, a child medium, and a crowd at the house. Guildhall hearing closes it in a quarter hour with thou art a lying spirit. Parsons to the pillory on the same street. Guildhall close still ends the Cock Lane ghost as fraud on the city record. London 1762. Cock Lane scratching attributed to Fanny, a child medium, and a crowd at the house. Guildhall hearing closes it in a quarter hour with thou art a lying spirit. Parsons to the pillory on the same street. Guildhall close still ends the Cock Lane ghost as fraud on the city record. 1884 PAR WINCHESTER HOUSE WINCHESTER HOUSE - THIRTY-EIGHT-YEAR BUILD ENDS WITH SARAH Sarah Winchester’s San Jose house, 1884-1922. Stairs into plaster, rooms added for thirty-eight years. Work ended the morning she did. Medium and Winchester-rifle guilt stories arrive later in the tour script. Thirty-eight-year build ended with her death; the séance narrative was layered afterward. Sarah Winchester’s San Jose house, 1884-1922. Stairs into plaster, rooms added for thirty-eight years. Work ended the morning she did. Medium and Winchester-rifle guilt stories arrive later in the tour script. Thirty-eight-year build ended with her death; the séance narrative was layered afterward. 1972 PAR PHILIP EXPERIMENT PHILIP EXPERIMENT - TORONTO GROUP INVENTS THEN RAPS TABLE Toronto 1972. Owen group invents a fictional cavalier named Philip before any séance. Quiet failed. Parlour talk, then raps; the table moved. Book in 1976. Invented man, then physical effects under a controlled fiction, still cited as a psychokinesis experiment without a spirit that existed beforehand. Toronto 1972. Owen group invents a fictional cavalier named Philip before any séance. Quiet failed. Parlour talk, then raps; the table moved. Book in 1976. Invented man, then physical effects under a controlled fiction, still cited as a psychokinesis experiment without a spirit that existed beforehand. 1971 PAR BÉLMEZ FACES BÉLMEZ FACES - KITCHEN HEARTH FACES AND BONES UNDER FLOOR 23 August 1971. María Gómez Pereira’s kitchen hearth in Bélmez de la Moraleda shows a face; a pick, then cement, then the same place again. Bones later reported under the kitchen. Hearth faces and the underfloor finds remain on the Andalusian kitchen card without a settled maker. 23 August 1971. María Gómez Pereira’s kitchen hearth in Bélmez de la Moraleda shows a face; a pick, then cement, then the same place again. Bones later reported under the kitchen. Hearth faces and the underfloor finds remain on the Andalusian kitchen card without a settled maker. 1878 PAR ESTHER COX ESTHER COX - AMHERST PLASTER SENTENCE YOU ARE MINE Amherst, Nova Scotia, 1878-79. Plaster over Esther Cox’s bed reads you are mine to kill. Hubbell boards the house and writes it up. A barn fire and later quiet. Plaster sentence and boarding account remain the spine of the Amherst mystery; physical agency beyond the household was never proven. Amherst, Nova Scotia, 1878-79. Plaster over Esther Cox’s bed reads you are mine to kill. Hubbell boards the house and writes it up. A barn fire and later quiet. Plaster sentence and boarding account remain the spine of the Amherst mystery; physical agency beyond the household was never proven. 1967 PAR ROSENHEIM ROSENHEIM - LAW OFFICE INSTRUMENTS AND ANNEMARIE SCHABERL 1967. Sigmund Adam’s law office in Rosenheim. Speaking clock rung forty-six times in fifteen minutes, lights and instruments misbehaving faster than normal dialling. Quiet after clerk Annemarie Schaberl left. Office instrument anomalies are logged; quiet returned when the named clerk left the building. 1967. Sigmund Adam’s law office in Rosenheim. Speaking clock rung forty-six times in fifteen minutes, lights and instruments misbehaving faster than normal dialling. Quiet after clerk Annemarie Schaberl left. Office instrument anomalies are logged; quiet returned when the named clerk left the building. 1936 PAR BROWN LADY BROWN LADY - COUNTRY LIFE STAIRCASE PLATE AT RAYNHAM HALL 19 September 1936. Country Life plate of the Raynham Hall stairs. Indre Shira shouted for a shot; Provand’s head was under the cloth. The Brown Lady figure on the staircase plate remains in the cabinet; the woman herself was never held or identified beyond the photograph and the house tradition. 19 September 1936. Country Life plate of the Raynham Hall stairs. Indre Shira shouted for a shot; Provand’s head was under the cloth. The Brown Lady figure on the staircase plate remains in the cabinet; the woman herself was never held or identified beyond the photograph and the house tradition. 1848 PAR FOX SISTERS FOX SISTERS - HYDESVILLE RAPS BEGIN SPIRITUALISM 31 March 1848, Hydesville. Kate Fox says Mr Splitfoot, do as I do, and the raps answer. Spiritualism leaves the cottage into American and European practice. March raps open the spiritualism card; later confessions and exposés muddy the cottage start without erasing the movement that followed. 31 March 1848, Hydesville. Kate Fox says Mr Splitfoot, do as I do, and the raps answer. Spiritualism leaves the cottage into American and European practice. March raps open the spiritualism card; later confessions and exposés muddy the cottage start without erasing the movement that followed. 1966 PAR BLACK MONK BLACK MONK - PRITCHARD HOUSE AT 30 EAST DRIVE, PONTEFRACT 30 East Drive, Pontefract, from 1966. Pritchard household reports dust at head height and Diane dragged on the stairs. Later called the Black Monk. East Drive house file remains a West Yorkshire poltergeist card; later monastic naming did not settle what happened on those nights. 30 East Drive, Pontefract, from 1966. Pritchard household reports dust at head height and Diane dragged on the stairs. Later called the Black Monk. East Drive house file remains a West Yorkshire poltergeist card; later monastic naming did not settle what happened on those nights. 1817 PAR BELL WITCH BELL WITCH - FARM VOICE AND JOHN BELL DEATH IN TENNESSEE Adams, Tennessee, 1817-1821. Red River farm voice that the Bell family called a witch. John Bell dead 20 December 1820 after a vial and a cat vision in the house tradition. Ingram’s 1894 book fixes the story in print. Farm voice account remains; physical proof stays thin beside the death and the later narrative. Adams, Tennessee, 1817-1821. Red River farm voice that the Bell family called a witch. John Bell dead 20 December 1820 after a vial and a cat vision in the house tradition. Ingram’s 1894 book fixes the story in print. Farm voice account remains; physical proof stays thin beside the death and the later narrative. 1969 PAR HIGHGATE VAMPIRE HIGHGATE VAMPIRE - CEMETERY PANIC AND OPENED VAULTS IN NORTH LONDON Highgate Cemetery, 1969-70. Tall grey figure on Swain's Lane, opened graves and vaults, a man arrested with a stake, a television crew, a fox still warm. Police: trespass. North London cemetery panic paper still holds opened vaults and contradictory hunter claims without a body. Highgate Cemetery, 1969-70. Tall grey figure on Swain's Lane, opened graves and vaults, a man arrested with a stake, a television crew, a fox still warm. Police: trespass. North London cemetery panic paper still holds opened vaults and contradictory hunter claims without a body. 1845 PAR ÉMILIE SAGÉE ÉMILIE SAGÉE - TEACHER SEEN IN TWO PLACES AT NEUWELCKE 1845-46, Pensionnat of Neuwelcke. French teacher Émilie Sagée seen in two places at once by a classroom, once in the garden while still seated indoors. Dismissed after eighteen months. She said it was the nineteenth post. Memoir-chain accounts still carry the double figure without a physical second body. 1845-46, Pensionnat of Neuwelcke. French teacher Émilie Sagée seen in two places at once by a classroom, once in the garden while still seated indoors. Dismissed after eighteen months. She said it was the nineteenth post. Memoir-chain accounts still carry the double figure without a physical second body. 1939 PAR BORLEY RECTORY BORLEY RECTORY - PRICE MOST HAUNTED HOUSE BURNED AND DEMOLISHED Essex rectory Price named the most haunted house in England. Nun, bells, wall writing. Foyster years of thrown crockery. Price privately called those nights fraud. The house burned 27 February 1939 and came down in 1944. The house itself is gone; the paper file is what remains. Essex rectory Price named the most haunted house in England. Nun, bells, wall writing. Foyster years of thrown crockery. Price privately called those nights fraud. The house burned 27 February 1939 and came down in 1944. The house itself is gone; the paper file is what remains. 1852 PAR GEF THE MONGOOSE GEF THE MONGOOSE - TALKING MONGOOSE AT DOARLISH CASHEN, ISLE OF MAN Cashen’s Gap, Isle of Man, 1931. A voice in the wall panels names itself Gef, claims Delhi 1852, sings hymns, kills rabbits, and never sits for a photograph. Voirrey Irving never recanted. No body was ever shown to close the file. Doarlish Cashen panel talk remains a voice case without a specimen. Cashen’s Gap, Isle of Man, 1931. A voice in the wall panels names itself Gef, claims Delhi 1852, sings hymns, kills rabbits, and never sits for a photograph. Voirrey Irving never recanted. No body was ever shown to close the file. Doarlish Cashen panel talk remains a voice case without a specimen. 1812 PAR BARBADOS COFFINS BARBADOS COFFINS - MOVING LEAD COFFINS IN CHASE VAULT, OISTINS Christ Church, Oistins. Between 1812 and 1820 the sealed Chase Vault is opened for family burials and the lead coffins are found thrown about. Lord Combermere attends. In 1820 the vault is emptied and left. Combermere’s presence and the abandoned coral chamber still close the Barbados moving-coffin paper. Christ Church, Oistins. Between 1812 and 1820 the sealed Chase Vault is opened for family burials and the lead coffins are found thrown about. Lord Combermere attends. In 1820 the vault is emptied and left. Combermere’s presence and the abandoned coral chamber still close the Barbados moving-coffin paper. 1977 PAR ENFIELD POLTERGEIST ENFIELD POLTERGEIST - HODGSON COUNCIL HOUSE DISTURBANCES IN NORTH LONDON August 1977 to 1979. Sustained unexplained physical disturbances at a council house in Enfield, North London, centred on the Hodgson family and the two daughters. Furniture movement, knockings, thrown objects, and a deep male voice through one girl were logged by police, journalists, and SPR investigators. Several points remain contested. August 1977 to 1979. Sustained unexplained physical disturbances at a council house in Enfield, North London, centred on the Hodgson family and the two daughters. Furniture movement, knockings, thrown objects, and a deep male voice through one girl were logged by police, journalists, and SPR investigators. Several points remain contested.