Spooked! Ghostly goings-on force terrified family to flee house. Story: Steve Dixon. Pictures: Robert Prosser. Haunted house: the council house that held terror for the Meredith family. A mother and her two children have been
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Luton (1938) and Dunstable (1960s), Bedfordshire
Street with a history of haunting happenings. Ghostly goings-on have been sending shivers down the spines of residents of one Luton street over the last 60 years. The Luton News recently reported how Eddie Herbert
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Couple are in fear of poltergeist. By John Hand. A young Luton couple are refusing to be driven out of their home by things that go bump in the night… and flying in the daytime.
Continue ReadingVoitsberg, Austria (1818)
The Munchshofe Saturnalia. M. Bizouard gives some further details from Gorres of the strange events at Munchshofe, situated a league from Voitsberg, and three leagues from Gratz. They occurred in the house of a Herr
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Troubles at Szegedin. In the third volume of Magikon, pp. 210 and 236, we have the detailed particulars of the haunting of a large old house at Szegedin, in Hungary. Dr. Von Stantzky, who attended
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John Eigenauer’s article on Bonjour Paris talks about the ‘Miracles’ of the title (and the consequent disapproval of them and the ‘Convulsionists’). Stone-throwing at the time of the Miracles at the Tomb of the Abbe
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An Ancient Cambridge Poltergeist. By H.O. Evennett, of Trinity College, Cambridge. Simon Ockley, 1678 -1720, was Professor of Arabic in the University of Cambridge from 1711 – 1720, under the Sir Thomas Adams foundation. The
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Strange Occurrences at Newry in Ireland. Frances and Elizabeth Dixon are two sisters (one about forty, the other thirty years of age) who have lived together in a little house of their own, ever since
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Perhaps the servants were having him on. But nevertheless it’s an interesting example of Bells, and the use of prayer to get rid of the problem. Mr Harlakenden, who lived at Coln-Priory in Essex, (where
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(much more of a cross-over example, with ‘fairies’, witchcraft, and Not Taking Things or you get bad luck (until you get rid of them). The writer seems to believe it all anyway) Dr Lamb, who
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