“Ghost” baffles police. Tappings in a wall. From our own correspondent. Geneva, Friday. Basle has been excited for days over a supposed haunted house in Utengasse, and crowds have kept watch before the building, in
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Wolverhampton, West Midlands (1987)
Woman flees ‘haunted’ flat. A Midlands woman has fled her tower block home in terror convinced that her flat is haunted. Michelle Bash claims that plates, pictures and clocks fly around the rooms, furniture rearranges
Continue ReadingChoctaw County, Alabama, USA (1895)
Halo about a child. Strange manifestations at a country house in South Alabama. Noise like that of a train. Approaching the house – The ticking on the roof – A child enveloped in a halo
Continue ReadingUdhagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, India (1897)
Spooks Pitch Rocks. They do in the champion ghost story from India. The police called in. They could do nothing and sent for a professional devil-driver to cure a ghost-a[…]ed girl. Madras, India, July 10.
Continue ReadingParis, France (1882)
Aspects of Life In Paris. […] I shall not attempt to describe the inhabitants of this zone: any one who has ever gone to Five Points can form a pretty accurate idea of its squalor,
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A Haunted House. Mysterious manifestations at the cottage home of Cooney Driebelbiss. Cooney Driebelbiss, of the fire department, and his wife, reside in a little cottage, in the rear of Rine Caps’ jewelry house, on
Continue ReadingWorthing, West Sussex (1964)
Promenade. With John Deighton. The festive season is the time for ghost stories… and strange things have been happening at the home of Mrs Beryl France, who lives with her 18-year-old daughter Wendy and her
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Who’s the thing of the castle? Spooked staff blame ghost for creepy happenings at Upnor. By John Plunkett. A ghost is being blamed for some alarming disturbances at Upnor Castle. Spooked security guards can find
Continue ReadingAchindarroch, Highland (1943)
The Haunted Farm-house. Written and illustrated by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. Few with any appreciable knowledge of Scotland have not heard of Glen Duror, that steep and comparatively short valley running inland from the roadside at
Continue ReadingDisley, Cheshire (19th century?)
From Glossop to Disley and Thereabout. By Oliver Fizzwig. … Farther on my companion pointed out to me a neat white farmhouse by the road side, and known as Hagg Bank. Here many years ago
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