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Official reports, hearing transcripts, case files and releases: the paper behind the cases. 2,872 documents, 2,610 mirrored with their text, 53,529 pages indexed, so a search reads inside them and lands on the page.
New in the library The PURSUE files The Department of War's UAP release, mirrored in full: the videos, recordings and images, each beside its case file.Scans matching “Wood”196 scans · page 1
The Mowing - Devil: Or, Strange NEWS out of Hartford - Shire. Blinding Time Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaintims with a Poor Awerer, about the Cutting down Three Half Acres of Oats, upon the Mower's asking too much, the Farmer wrote, That the Devil should Mow it, rather than He. And so it fell out,…
The Mowing-Devil: Or, Strange NEWS out of Hartford-shire. Being a True Relation of a Farmer, who Bargaining with a Poor Mower, about the Cutting down Three Half Acres of Oats; upon the Mower's asking too much, the Far- mer fwore, That the Devil should Mow it, rather than He: And so it fell out, that…
Scratch'd by one, two, three and'one More. Plan of the Room, and the Ghost's Representations, with References. N. B. None but true Believers can make out the identical figure of the Apparition in this Picture. Infidels see it as a confused affair, signifying Nothing.…
John Graham, the Hammersmith Ghost, 1804 print of the self-confessed hoaxer in costume (LDORL 01822) Scan
Bell Witch Cave ScanThe entrance to the cave is marked by a wooden handrail. The cave walls are made of rock, and there is a small stream flowing through it.…
The entrance to the cave is marked by a wooden handrail. The cave's interior is dark, with a metal grid that appears to be a staircase leading up to the entrance. The rocky walls of the cave are covered in moss and lichen, indicating a moist environment.…
THE GREAT SEA-SERPENT. 44 Strange things come up to look at us— Strange things come up to look as us- The masters of the doop."—Song, "The Return of the Admiral." A NEW attestation of the existence of the Great Sea Serpent has just been placed upon official record ; and has very naturally resuscitat…
The Old Fox Cottage, Hydesville, NY, "The cradle of modern Spiritualism", photographed before 1916 ScanThe Old Fox Cottage, Hydesville, N. D. "The Cradle of Modern Spiritualism" On a lonely country road, about one mile from the station of Newark, N. Y., U. S. A., on the New York Central Railroad, and about thirty miles from Rochester, is situated a modest wooden cottage, which has become one of the m…
THE LEGEND OF DIAMOND ROCK SINCE the first Dutch settlers came, children playing Indian on Diamond Rock have wondered at the glittering stones that gave the huge rock its name. To a geologist these stones are quartzose crystals imbedded in calciferous sandy rock. But the Mohawk Indians have their ow…
An Awkward Encounter. SAYS the Braidwood Dispatch : Mr. Arthur Martin, cordial manufacturer, met with a rather awkward reception as he was going in to Captain's Flat on Friday last with a load of cordials. Shortly after getting upon the turn off road from the Cooma road, within two or three miles of…
CONNECTICUT'S WILD MAN SENTENCED. He Lived In a Hut and Stole, and Now He Will Go to Prison. [BY TELEGRAPH TO THE HERALD.] WINSTED, Conn., Oct. 10, 1895.-The wild man was to-day sentenced to two years in State Prison by Judge Milton Shumway, of the Superior Court. He gave his name as Dennis Rppitt. …
A WILD MAN. He Appears to Selectman Smith of Winsted and Scares His Bull Dog. Selectman Riley W. Smith of Winsted, was picking berries in Colebrook Saturday, when his bull dog, which is noted for its pluck, ran with a whine to him and stationed itself between his legs. A second afterwards a large ma…
WINSTED'S MYSTERY SOLVED. The "Wild Man" Now Beltoved to be an Escaped Gorilla. Winsted, Conn., Aug. 30.—The Con necticut wifd man, that has divided honors with the sea serpent, is a full grown gorilla. John G. Hall runs a stage line between here and Sandisfield, Mass. While he was passing through C…
WINSTED WOODS SCOURED SUNDAY. Two Hundred Armed Men Participate in the Search—No Trace of the Terrible Creature Discovered—His Existence Confidently Believed in. However—Features of the Novel Round-up. Yesterday some 200 men tramped through the Winsted woods on an unsuccessful hunt for the wild man …
Recorded under table. | Host in Room. | Witness. | Description of event. Feb. 18 | No. VIII. | Mine Moore | Counsel of an animal movement in the room in daylight. The Ole | Mine Laughton | Video in conversation 19 | The Ole | Mine Laughton | Video in conversation The Ole | Mine Moore | Video in conv…
CONSPECTUS OF AUDILE PHENOMENA AT B——HOUSE RECORDED IN JOURNAL Recorded under data | Hearn in Room | Winnie | Description of sound. Feb. 4 | No. L | Mim Poor | Loud sound, as sound of metal starch with wood pulp | No. III | Mim More | Footsteps, things moving 5 | Atties | Two housemates | Continuous…
FIFTEEN LOUISVILLE OFFICIALS. INDATED FOR CORRUPTION. The Arkansas Gazette. SEVENTY-EIGHTH YEAR LITTLE ROCK, SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1897.—SIXTEEN PAGES. SOUTHWESTERN TELEGRAPH & TELEPHONE COMPANY. many of the principal towns and cities of Arkansas. Coll stations at the Central Office, Hotels and other …
THE GREEN GOWROW, KILLED IN SEARCY COUNTY. - From Photograph by Wm. Miller. Mr. William Miller, the well-known business man of this city, came a day from Seaway county. Mr. Miller tells a marvelous story of the life of a bitherto unknown man in the town of Blanco, in Calf Creek county. "For some tim…
THE HAUNTED POLICE STATIONS OF CHICAGO STOCKYARDSPOLICE STATION WHERE SERGEANT PRINDIVILLE SEES GHOSTS NEW CITY POLICE STATION WHERE A GHOST FILES IRON BARS GRAND GROSSING POLICE STATION 'WHERE A GHOST TOOK THE HARNESS FROM THE HORSES' ENGLEWOOD POLICE STATION.WHERE GHOST THROWS BRICKBATS CELL NO3 I…
OF ARIZONA. Many strange stories have been told of the wild man of the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, and, while some persons have believed these weird tales, they have for the most part been regarded as the ingenious inventions of imaginative travelers and have passed into tradition as such. But, ac…
WHAT AILS SOUTH JERSEY? Strange Conduct Even Though This Is the Hot Apple Toddy Season. PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 20. All south Jersey had posses out to-day hunting the "Loeds level," the strange monstrosity, according to all accounts, which has been leaping, flying, running and hopping over the towns in t…
JERSEY ROOTS 105 years ago, something terrorized South Jersey An artist's rendering of the legendary Jersey Devil, depicted as a demonic creature that has haunted the Pine Barrens since at least colonial times, first published in the Asbury Park Press in November 1978. ASBURY PARK PRESS FILE ART By …
QUEER CREATURE CAUSES ALARM these reports, but none has yet offered an explanation that will meet the situation. Then comes Nelson Evans, a paper hanger of Gloucester City, with the declaration that he and his wife saw the "devil" early in the morning as he sat on the roof of their back shed. Wince-…
Precursor to anthrax hysteria: the Mad Gasser of Roanoke In early '30s, public's imagination ran wild in Virginia By MATT CHITTUM ASSOCIATED PRESS FINCASTLE, Va. — Men sat awake with shotguns across their laps. Women stuffed rags into keyholes and the cracks around windows. Police chased shadows. Th…
FINCASTLE, Va. — Men sat awake with shotguns across their laps. Women stuffed rags into keyholes and the cracks around windows. Police chased up the hysteria with dozens of news stories. Local politicians offered a reward. When and where would the fiend strike next? There was a mad gasser on the loo…
The New York Times. BURGESSEN BURGES ACTOR TO BURGES BUDGET BILLIONS Lanier National Ballet Theater Symphony Theatre in Montreal 100% Dear Sir, Sir, I am writing to propose that the date be modified to May 11. The 8th letter is a Bilbo Baggins Aragorn II and King Uraga Wearing a crown. 10.1.1.1.1.1 …