Apparitions, Hauntings & Poltergeists Text Resources Thread

[Laird]

A report apt for wordplay from the same blogger:

The Spirit Who Made a Man Give up Spirits

By TheresaHPIR for Theresa's Haunted History of the Tri-State blog on July 7, 2025.

On one particularly clear night, the man was walking back home with his sack of whisky when he heard what he described as a woman's voice coming from the clouds. Curious, he stopped to listen. Suddenly, from right over his head he heard the voice say, 'Drop that liquor!' At the same time, a loud thud, almost like a lightning bolt, hit the ground near him. 

The man dropped his sack of whisky and ran home. He got down on his knees and told his wife the whole story before swearing off liquor for good. And, according to the source telling this tale, that promise was kept and the man stayed sober for the rest of his days.

[Laird]

Yet More Apparitions Seen by Multiple Witnesses

By Mark Mahin on his Future and Cosmos blog on July 18, 2025.

This is a collection of news reports conforming to the blog post's title, as images of newspaper articles, except for one which is text. An extract from that one:

The distinguished scientist noticed this much before he decided that since there were absolutely, positively and definitely no ghosts he had probably seen nothing at all. But the next night, there was the little luminous man again, plodding heavily up the stairs ahead of him. This happened several more times but the scientist still said nothing at all to his wife. Until one night going upstairs to bed first she saw the luminous man just ahead of her. She uttered an exclamation and the figure looked around. She noticed deep-set eyes and that, although the feet were not touching the steps, his knees were bending as though it required an effort for him to ascend. The next morning she mentioned the apparition to her husband and he confessed for the first time that he had been seeing it as well.

[Laird]

Ghostly Tales from the Ohio Valley Electric Railway

By TheresaHPIR for Theresa's Haunted History of the Tri-State blog on July 19, 2025.

The Winchester incident occurred in May of 1923. Passengers were minding their own business as the car traveled down Winchester Avenue. Suddenly, a PHANTOM COAT floated in through a rear window, and drifted up the aisle before vanishing before shocked eyes. The car was stopped and the motorman, along with several passengers, got out to investigate. No sign of the coat or anything that could be mistaken as a phantom coat was ever found. The article made sure to mention that none of the witnesses had been drinking, and it appeared as if only one or two people of color, were frightened by the unexplained incident.