Priests fail to dispell fears. Evil spirits give family bumps in the night. By Graeme Smith. A terrified family called in the Church of England to rid their home of evil spirits. Two clergymen exorcised
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Meoble, Arisaig, Highlands (1867)
Has the bruit and fame of the Meoble ghost, or “goblin damned” rather, yet reached you at Inverness. An ill-natured, uncompanionable rogue, and very strong and substantial withal, is this the same monster apparition, that
Continue ReadingTruro, Cornwall (1999)
Sweet shop ghost hunt. By Carolyn Thomas. Sinister goings-on involving spooky shrimps at a Truro sweet shop could be linked to the store’s grizzly past. Wendy and Don Brown who run Sweet Inspirations are becoming
Continue ReadingThatcham, Berkshire (1984)
John, 18, gets a spirited welcome. Police have been called in to investigate a series of strange goings on at a Berkshire home. There have been bumps in the night, doors open when they should
Continue ReadingAynho, Northamptonshire (1953)
“Queeky” haunts this house at Aynho. A poltergeist investigated. Pursuing the recent correspondence on local ghosts “Guardian” reporter J. Cashman accepted an invitation to spend a night in a house at Aynho which is reputed
Continue ReadingSt Ouen, Jersey, Channel Islands (1907)
Vinchelez Manor said to be haunted. Bells ringing and uncanny rapping. (Special to “Jersey Times.”) That an old manor-house should be haunted is, in our matter-of-fact days, considered as only historical romance. Though superstition dies
Continue ReadingNottingham (1921)
Mischievous Spooks. Pranks in Nottingham Tinsmith’s Shop. The Clutching Hand. King Charles’ Officers’ Mess Revisited. In view of the Nottingham Castle ghost story (exclusively given in Saturday’s Evening Post) and the consequent renewed interest in
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I wonder if this is just a story. The Llanblethian Ghost. Llanblethian House is a large roomy old place, at that time occupied by a family named Donne, or, more properly, “Dwn,” of thoroughly
Continue ReadingClonoulty, County Tipperary (1880)
Latter Day Supernatural Pranks. Shakespeare says that “there are more things in Heaven and Earth than are dreamt of in our philosophy,” and that speculative assertion of the immortal Bard receives about an equal amount
Continue ReadingWoodstock, New York, USA (1887)
Haunted houses, or – more correctly speaking – houses reported by superstitious people to be haunted, are to be heard of in many parts of the world; but the manner in which the ghosts are
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