‘Angry poltergeist’ brings terror to council house. Bizarre events forcing family to leave. By Brian Macdonald. Things that go bump in the night have forced a family out of their Galway City home. A series
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Swindon, Wiltshire (1966)
‘Ghost’ drives family out of council house. A family of four have been moved to another council house because they claimed their house was haunted. The trouble began a few months ago when Mrs Gladys
Continue ReadingGreensboro, Alaska, USA (1886)
Remnants of bricks among the stones that mysteriously fell one night not long ago at a negro settlement in Greensborough, Alaska, have convinced an editor of that locality, who conducted an investigation on his own
Continue ReadingNewtown, Powys (1965)
Lively spirit keeps house awake. Birmingham Post Welshpool Correspondent. Life has not been the same for the Owen family of Garth Owen Estate, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, since the mysterious spirit arrived some months ago. No one
Continue ReadingAberavon, Neath Port Talbot (1760)
Of Apparitions &c. In Glamorganshire. I am now to give an account of the most wonderful actings of a disembodied Spirit that ever I have heard of in this Century, which came to pass in
Continue ReadingNewgate, London (1820)
Extraordinary Circumstance. The Newgate Ghost. It appears that various spectral appearances took place in Newgate on Thursday night. Several of the criminals were on that night locked up under sentence of death, while the watchmen
Continue ReadingBalham, London (1911)
Alleged haunted house in Cathles Road. Amusing letters at Wandsworth County Court. Considerable merriment was caused at the Wandsworth County Court on Monday, during the hearing by his Honour Judge Harlington of a claim brought
Continue ReadingPortadown, County Armagh (1896)
Haunted House in Portadown. Incredible Superstition. The belief in ghosts dies hard. Even toward the close of the nineteenth century a portion of our local community seems to be under the influence of these silly
Continue ReadingGreat Harwood, Lancashire (1926)
Eerie Incident at Death-bed. Picture responds to a call. A remarkable death-bed incident has occurred in the Great Harwood district of Lancashire. An aged woman was lying on her death-bed, and had been frequently calling
Continue ReadingLoughborough, Leicestershire (1845)
The neighbourhood of Rushes-street, Loughborough, says the Leicestershire Mercury, was thrown into a state of alarm at midnight, about a week ago, by two females running out in their night-clothes, when the rain was falling
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