Duppy is a Jamaican term commonly applied to an order of supernatural beings whose activities appear identical to those of the Islamic djinn or Western…

A stone throwing poltergeist is terrorising the residents of Sohatu, a small village around forty kilometres south-east of Bucharest. Romania has a long tradition of…

Stone-throwing poltergeists fascinate me. In late 2017 I visited Zimbabwe to investigate two active stone-throwing poltergeist cases: one in Chinhoyi and another in Buhera. Africa…

Something strange is starting fires in a small village in the Gurpinar district of far eastern Turkey leaving the neighbourhood terrified, according to a report…

Another outbreak of mysterious fires was taking place in the Indira Nagar, an upmarket residential area of the city of Lucknow in late May. The…

As I observed in an earlier post, fire poltergeist cases appear to be relatively common in Africa, Asia and India but relatively rare (or rarely…

Bikita is rapidly becoming poltergeist central. Either that or credulity is running rampant in that small rural corner of Zimbabwe. In an earlier post I…

In early 2012, I visited Ho Chi Minh City to investigate the curious case of the ‘Supernatural Girl’. A Tan Binh district family told me…

In southern Africa, when strange things happen, it’s often the tokoloshe who gets the blame. The tokoloshe is said to be a brown, hairy dwarf-like…

Some early poltergeist reports contain an impressive amount of rich detail. This Indian case, from the Hindu Spiritualist magazine in 1906 and reprinted in full in the…