Monkey business in bedroom. A circus monkey which has left a trail of disorder since it escaped in Trento, North Italy, last week, invaded a school-mistress’s Alpine home near Trento yesterday. It lined up all
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Dallington, Northamptonshire (1988)
‘Haunted house’ ghost spooks terrified pair. A terrified couple claim they are being haunted out of their new home by a noisy spirit. Glenn Pendleton says the ghostly goings on began only hours after he
Continue ReadingBerkhamsted, Hertfordshire (1980)
Family’s nightmare of ‘ghost’ house. Nick Wormley meets the victims of a poltergeist. A Berkhamsted family believe they are sharing their home with a poltergeist which hurls trays and cutlery across the kitchen, turns taps
Continue ReadingFulwell, Tyne and Wear (2004)
Spooked city bakery workers need… The Greggs-orcist. By Craig Thompson. Spooked staff have reported some “spectre-cular” goings-on behind the pie and pastie counter at a Sunderland bakery. Some of the city’s most historic and famous
Continue ReadingRuislip, Surrey (1988)
Ghostbusters! Official probe into bumps in the night. Weird, psychic events at the old Ruislip ambulance station, which have terrorised staff into believing the building is haunted, are being investigated by the London Ambulance Service.
Continue ReadingKecskemet, Hungary (1921)
Boy who burns. Spiritualistic mystery in Hungary. Much excitement has been caused in Hungarian spiritualistic circles by the mysterious agencies which apparently are at work with a 13-year old peasant boy named John Farkas, the
Continue ReadingBlackheath, London (1905)
Ghost rings a bell. Police puzzled by a spectre-haunted house at Blackheath. On Saturday night some malicious spirit disturbed the occupants of a little house in Blackheath by ringing the doorbell at intervals throughout the
Continue ReadingFlorence, Tuscany, Italy (1867)
During the last days of December, 1867, at No. 14 Ghibellina Street, in Florence, subterranean noises began to be heard, and sudden and startling blows in the table around which the family was seated. Dishes
Continue ReadingPreston Bissett, Buckinghamshire (c.1878)
Local ghost stories, and strange occurrences. “Mysterious” writes: – Speaking of strange occurrences in the neighbourhood recalls to mind a singular premonition of death, which happened about twenty years ago. It was summertime, and on
Continue ReadingKirkcaldy, Fife (1958)
(This is next door to a case from 1972). The ‘ghost’ house children must stay. Seven children who scream with fright at the thought of sleeping in their own house were refused admission to a
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