Town Council Meets in “Haunted House.” Members flee from a ghost. Prague, Friday. When the Commissioner of Police in the town of Dvur Kralove was awakened one night recently by ghostly knocking on his beddroom
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Townshend, Cornwall (1934)
Rappings on the wall. Cornish village’s ghostly story. “Spirit of Mrs Peggy Taylor”. Sounds heard by reporter. Is there a ghost in the little village of Townshend near Penzance? Happenings there have been so strange
Continue ReadingDerry / Londonderry (1908)
Derry’s Haunted House. Mysterious nocturnal noises and ghostly visitants. Inmates make a hurried flit. Popular excitement: police on watch. An extensive section of a thickly-populated district in Derry City has been thrown into a state
Continue ReadingManchester (1929)
Haunted House. Weird experience of tenants. Cats vanish in thin air. Stories of weird happenings in a Manchester house were told to a “Press and Journal” representative last night. Amazing happenings which the tenants allege
Continue ReadingShepherd’s Bush, London (1909)
Mystery of Bells. Uncanny ringing puzzles a London household. Police search futile. From the tenants of a house in Shepherd’s Bush (West London), The Weekly Dispatch received a narration of [illegible] ringing of bells, which
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Shoes that walk alone. A shop of odd fear. In a very ordinary street in Kilburn, London, is a shoemaker’s shop where shoes walk – without feet in them. That’s not the only strange thing
Continue ReadingCowes, Isle of Wight (1996)
Ghost story leaves power chief in dark. British power chiefs were investigating spooky claims that a radio-loving ghost ran up a huge electricity bill in a haunted terrace house. The big spending spirit turned on
Continue ReadingBraintree, Essex (1971)
Boy ‘Haunted by Evil Spirit’ taken away from home. A boy who was said to have started a £70,000 school blaze while he was possessed by an evil spirit was taken from his home by
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1962)
It’s time this ghost went west! ‘Kill Croaky off before he wrecks this house completely’ says Brian Northman. If there are such things as timid people in a down-to-earth place like the Lancashire mill town
Continue ReadingEbbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent (1913)
Eerie Visitor. An old-fashioned, but prosaic-looking, house in Victoria-road, Ebbw Vale, is the centre of considerable excitement in the town just at present by reason of talk of mysterious knockings and ghostly visitations. Mrs Williams,
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