The Trinity Poltergiest: Edinburgh's Lost Poltergiest Case

In 1835, Captain Molesworth and his family moved into a house in Trinity, Edinburgh.

Not long afterwards, strange noises began to be heard around the property. Knocks, footsteps and other disturbances were reported, and before long the case had drawn in neighbours, military officers and the landlord himself.

At the centre of it all was Molesworth’s daughter Jane, who was already seriously ill. Her sister Matilda had died only a short time before the disturbances began, and some came to believe there might be a connection.

What followed became one of Edinburgh’s strangest and now largely forgotten supernatural cases.

In this episode, I look at the original account, the later additions to the story, and what we can still piece together about the family at its centre.