‘Come and stay a night’ challenge by Sandfields family. By Maggie Errington. In the fertile soil of our imaginations, ghost stories and legends find plenty of nourishment. Whether we believe in them or not, the
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Plymouth, Devon (1955)
A blessing ‘drove ghost away’. A priest blessed a Plymouth house because the tenant, the wife of a naval rating, complained of “ghostly hands which touched her shoulder and tugged at her skirt.” A friend
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Haunted? Now the Browns wonder. Strange happenings at their council house are puzzling Mr and Mrs Stewart Brown, of Alpass Avenue, Warrington. “We haven’t seen any ghosts around, but we are beginning to think that
Continue ReadingSwindon, Wiltshire (1985)
Help, my house is haunted. A young mother is pleading to be rehoused because she says a ghost is haunting her council home. Beverley Walsh, 22, said: “In the last two weeks my bed has
Continue ReadingKirkcaldy, Fife (1994)
Couple flee ghostly goings-on. Haunting forces tenant to quit Council flat. By Anna Steven. A spooked pet shop worker has fled his Kirkcaldy home claiming he’s suffered five months of ghostly bumps in the night.
Continue ReadingNunsthorpe, Grimsby, Lincolnshire (1959+)
Grimsby family quits house: It’s haunted, they say. By Marjorie Stephenson. No. 1, Newton-grove is a solidly built council house on the Nunsthorpe estate; a family house in a terrace of similar homes built almost
Continue ReadingArgoed, Blackwood, Caerphilly (1950)
Young mother must not return to ‘Ghost House’ say doctors. Committee promises a new home. Twenty-six-years old Mrs Violet Witts, miner’s wife, mother of four young children, of 8, Upper James-street, Argoed, near Blackwood, Monmouthshire,
Continue ReadingBarnby Crossing, Balderton, Nottinghamshire (1994)
High spirits rattle family. by Rachel Cutts. A couple have asked for a housing transfer because they claim ghosts have separated them from their four-year-old son. Mr and Mrs Brian Manterfield moved into their council
Continue ReadingHarleston, Norfolk (1983)
Haunted by a woman-hater. By Jane Oddy. When Mandy Franks moved into her new home in Harleston she jokingly asked the previous owners whether the 500-year-old building was haunted. Little did she realise the truth
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Family quits ‘haunted’ house. Shirley and Stephen Du-Val with baby Kevin in their bedroom at the flat they claim is haunted. A frightened young mother has quit her council flat, driven out, she claims, by
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