the Drummer of Tedworth, 1662 — Britain's first proper poltergeist, started over a confiscated drum

Going way back for this one. Tedworth, Wiltshire (it's Tidworth now). 1661-62. Recorded by a clergyman called Joseph Glanvill in a book with the brilliant title Saducismus Triumphatus. So there's a magistrate, John Mompesson. He has this vagrant drummer, William Drury, done for begging with fake pa……