They will face cold, but not the ghost. A young couple and the wife’s mother yesterday left the 10-roomed house to wander the streets in the cold and sleep in railway station waiting rooms because,
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Lichfield, Staffordshire (1994)
Antique setting for ‘ghost’. A Lichfield antiques shop is getting ready to do battle with real ghosts and ghouls as Hallowe’en approaches. The Cathedral Antique Centre in Dam Street has been pestered by a spectre
Continue ReadingAuldgirth, Dumfries and Galloway (1993 and some decades)
Farmhouse haunting horror. Most people will have fun this weekend celebrating Hallowe’en but ghosts have a far more sinister influence on the lives of one Dumfriesshire family… The McNay family – who live in an
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1910)
Noisy “Ghost” in Bow-st. Strange knockings and moving lights. Hand through a man-hole. The residents at a shop and house in Bow-st. are becoming very much excited and distressed by what they believe to be
Continue ReadingPreston Bissett, Buckinghamshire (1840)
A farmer of Preston Bissett, named Heley, has for some time been much annoyed and terrified by his house being haunted. After retiring to rest (his daughter sleeping in the same room), they were, at
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A Ghost Story. A Brigg correspondent says that some of the inhabitants of Change Alley, Wrawby-street, Brigg, have lately complained of nocturnal noises, and one night they called in a policeman, stating that there were
Continue ReadingChiswick, London (1956)
The penny poltergeist – and the boy. By Sunday Dispatch Reporter. In an attempt to rid his 12-year-old son of the poltergeist he believes is following him, Joe Pearcey last night tried to sell four
Continue ReadingNorth Shields, Tyne and Wear (1960)
The extra viewer is a ghost. A ghost is haunting the Leek family – a ghost with modern tastes. For the home it has chosen to haunt is a three-year-old council flat in Redburn-view, North
Continue ReadingCheshunt, Hertfordshire (1850s?)
I dare say that a good many of your readers have read Dickens’s “Haunted House.” There is a Defoe-like truthfulness about soem of the tales which must have struck most readers, and the thought must
Continue ReadingBirmingham (1974)
‘Sense of evil’ in a baby’s bedroom. Footsteps and noises in night. Four priests and a psychic research team have been called in to lay the ghost of Hagley Road. A series of inexplicable events
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