Ghosts. I don’t know what the average American’s reaction to the mention of Wigan is, but quite a few thousand readers of occult magazines in the USA will be seeing the name of the “loyal
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Witton, Birmingham (1993)
Fire station opens without the ghosts. Perry Barr. Perry Barr’s new fire station was officially opened on Tuesday – a builind which the firefighters hope will not plague them with as many supernatural experiences as
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Eerie experiences – but is Dawn’s flat haunted? Things that go bump in the night are putting the shivers up a young Lynn couple, who reckon their new home is haunted! Dawn Powley (20) and
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Paris Gossip. Comedy of a ‘haunted’ house. From our correspondent. Paris, Thursday. There is perhaps a moral for your Society for Psychical Research in the following story. For some time the inhabitants of a house
Continue ReadingMaybole, South Ayrshire (1992)
Haunting question for Maybole library staff. By Jim Brough. The haunting question among staff at Maybole’s Carnegie Library this week was whether the resident ghost would move when the library closed on Monday. For there
Continue ReadingKnaresborough, North Yorkshire (1905)
Ghost Story. An old house at Knaresborough. A puzzle of the so-called “ghostly” order awaits solution at Knaresborough. There (writes a correspondent), on the banks of the Nidd, is a charming old dwelling, parts of
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Torquay woman hopes she has laid a chair ghost – with her axe. Two Torquay houses are having “ghost trouble” and the occupiers are wondering if the chopping up of a “haunted” chair will bring
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Have YOU the guts to live in this house? By Derek Agnew. To let: Pleasant three-bedroom house. Older type but newly and tastefully decorated. All mod. con. Ample storage room incl. cellar. In quiet road
Continue ReadingChorley, Lancashire (1954)
Dog goes mad. Chorley couple “now believe in ghosts.” Since moving into a Standish street house 17 months ago, a Chorley couple, Mr Allan Mather and his 21-year-old wife, have been troubled by peculiar noises
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‘Morose Italian’ driving three families from their homes. Three families at the Welsh border village of Chirk are appealing to the council to rehouse them because they claim that a “morose Italian” haunts their wooden
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