Rash of spooks. A pair of friendly poltergeists have inhabited two newly renovated historic Chester buildings – the cellar at Abbey Green Scene in Northgate Street and La Belle Femme in Lower Bridge Street. Steve
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Cambridge (1905)
A ‘Varsity Ghost which keeps rooms empty at Cambridge. Successful seance. A ghost face to face with the necessity of choosing a habitation might conceivably be torn with conflicting emotions when considering the pros and
Continue ReadingTallaght, County Dublin (2007)
Violent ghosts force family out of their home. Distraught mother, Martha Cousins, who appeared on RTE’s Seoige and O’Shea, has had to leave her family home of 12 years – because angry ghosts made the
Continue ReadingDinan, Brittany, France (1904)
A haunted chateau. Malicious injuries by the ghost. Paris, Wednesday. For the last fortnight there have been mysterious happenings at the Chateau de Taden, near Dinan, in Brittany. A large party had been invited there
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Villagers hunt for ‘ghost’. Solve farm mystery. Brasparts (Brittany), Tuesday. Two hundred villagers with shotguns and pitchforks helped the police last night to lay “ghosts” haunting farmer Henri Jeffre’s farmhouse. The “ghosts” turned out to
Continue ReadingGrantham, Lincolnshire (1985)
Charlie the singing ghost is playing havoc with landlady Harriet Weller. He changes her calendar dates, pinches ornaments and sends her cooker controls haywire. He even tacked lodger Jack Flood’s trousers to the ceiling. Now
Continue ReadingNetherfield, Nottinghamshire (1993)
Family flee from ‘house of frights’. A mother and her two young children are refusing to go back to their home after a Hallowe’en fright. Susan Bishop and the children fled from the house on
Continue ReadingMossbank, Shetland Islands (1862)
Mossbank – Jan. 9, 1862. A Ghost. In the usually quiet neighbourhood of Mossbank there rarely occurs anything to disturb the ordinary current of events. But within the last ten days not a little excitement
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Half a house haunted. Ghostly rappings. Half a house at Bow – the lower half – is reputed to be haunted in consequence of a nightly performance of ghostly rappings. In the top half of
Continue ReadingChatham, Kent (1923)
Ghostly Rappings. The inmates of the Medway Workhouse, Chatham, are being disturbed by ghostly rappings on the walls of the wards, and up to the present all efforts to lay the “spook” have failed. Westminster
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