68 - The Dagg Poltergeist

In 1889, a lonely farmhouse in southern Quebec was afflicted by a series of ghostly manifestations, which seem to be centered on a Scottish orphan girl living in the home.

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SOURCES

“Dagg's demon.” Ottawa Journal, November 25, 1889.

“Dagg's dupes.” Ottawa Journal, November 29, 1889.

“Dinah a ventriloquist.” Ottawa Journal, November 29, 1889.

“Is it Beelzebub?” Vancouver Daily World, December 5, 1889.

“Mayor Geo. Dagg of Portage passes.” Ottawa Citizen, May 30, 1938.

“Mysterious noises in home had whole country on edge.” Ottawa Citizen, March 18, 1939.

“Outstanding personalities of the Ottawa district.” Ottawa Citizen, June 29, 1935.

“This beats them all.” Philadelphia Inquirer, January 13, 1890.

“Remarkable spontaneous manifestations.” Light: A Journal of Psychical, Occult, and Mystical Research (December 28, 1889).

Lackner, Chris. “The strange ghost that spooked Shawville.” Ottawa Citizen, November 18, 2014.

Playfair, Guy Lyon. This House Is Haunted. Guildford: White Crow Press, 2011.

Thormahlen, Judy. “Revived Shawville ghost mystery divides community into two camps.” Ottawa Citizen, April 9, 1959.

Wilson, Colin. Poltergeist: A Classic Study in Destructive Haunting. Llewellyn, 2009.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176738034/george-dagg

http://www.mysteriousbritain.co.uk/hauntings/dagg-poltergeist/

https://arlenestaffordwilson.wordpress.com/tag/dagg-ghost/