Case file · Haunting
Surrency poltergeist
In October 1872 crowds came by train to the home of Allen Powell Surrency in Surrency, Georgia, where crockery and books flew, clocks ran wild and objects fell from nowhere.
1872 CE · 31.72, -82.20 · status: account
The account
Newspapers across the country reported it. The disturbances lasted on and off until about 1877, the house burned in the 1920s, and a ghost light near the railway is still talked of.
The sceptical view
No investigation from the time survives; poltergeist cases are often traced to a member of the household.