The ‘ghost’ haunting a family. A Speke family is refusing to sleep in their four bedroomed council home – because they say it is haunted. Mr Thomas Wright, his wife, Elizabeth, and their six children
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Abingdon, Oxfordshire (1879 and 1891)
A Ghost Story. The attention of the superstitious has been attracted to the phenomena which are declared ever and anon to manifest themselves in one of the Abingdon Alms houses, not indeed in “questionable shape,”
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Mysterious knocking sounds keep family awake. Vicar prays in house of strange noises. A vicar has said prayers in the house of a Scotswood family of five who are being troubled by mysterious knockings in
Continue ReadingLeeds, West Yorkshire (1930)
Mystery at Hospital. Tappings in the night. Women patients at Seacroft Isolation Hospital have been alarmed recently by mysterious tappings in one of the wards, the origin of which could not be readily discovered. So
Continue ReadingRoydon, Diss, Norfolk (1822)
A case of a singular kind was brought before George Lee, Esq., the Rev. W. Manning, and the Rev. Temple Frere, at the Petty Sessions, at Diss, on Monday last. A girl, named Charlotte Bird,
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To Psychical Researchers. To the Editor. Dear Sir, – In the midst of the heated discussion on the subjects of granite cubes, wood blocks, sewage treatement, and rescued nuns, it is refreshing to be able
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Extraordinary Affair. Practical joking. The borough of Bolton has been started from its propriety, in consequence of the general spread of a story, that some unearthly visitant had taken up its abode in a lawyer’s
Continue ReadingDrumaran, County Down (1780)
Disturbances in the County of Down. Elizabeth and Margaret Mathers, with Isabella Mitchell, sister-in-law to Margaret Mathers, are three elderly women of unblemished character, and exemplary behaviour. They have lived together for many years at
Continue ReadingLufton, Yeovil, Somerset (1904)
The Ghost at Lufton. A visit to the haunted house. “An old lady in black.” Also “A sort of dog”. One of our Reporters has been to “see the ghost;” and he describes his experience
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Another Norwich Ghost Story. A woman in black. With the advent of dark nights and the near approach of Christmas, it is only fitting that ghost stories should once again come to the fore, and
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