The Tower of London’s Glowing ‘Tube’ Ghost (1817)
In October 1817, the Keeper of the Crown Jewels said a glowing, tube-shaped apparition hovered over his wife at dinner in the Tower of London. She reportedly cried out, ‘It has seized me!’
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The Bell Witch: Tennessee’s Poltergeist Legend (1817–1821)
America’s most famous ghost story is set on a Tennessee farm. An invisible voice that talked, sang and promised to kill farmer John Bell. Here’s what the 1820 journal, the 1856 newspaper letter and the 1894 book actually say, and how the legend kept growing.
