A Haunted House. The Pittsburg Leader (United States) tells the following story of a haunted house: – “Some few weeks since a popular undertaker, doing business on Smithfield Street, moved into a house on Clark
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Danville, County Kilkenny (1857)
A True Ghost Story. An evil spirit, which for some time past has been indulging in very strange antics and exciting no small terror and annoyance amongst her Majesty’s lieges in a locality closely neighbouring
Continue ReadingDordon, Warwickshire (1980)
Couple say: ‘We’ve been driven from home’. Ghost – or just a grudge? A young Dordon couple claim they have been driven out of their home by an unfriendly ghost. Mr Tony Sweet and his
Continue ReadingColeshill, Warwickshire (1878)
A “Ghost” In A School. Considerable gossip and many strange rumours have lately been afloat in a small town not a hundred miles from Coleshill, owing to a highly-respectable and flourishing ladies school in its
Continue ReadingRutland, Vermont, USA (1840s)
A Ghostly Carnival. The millions of Spiritualists in the United States, says the Chicago Tribune, find their Mecca just now in a little farmhouse which lies seven miles north of Rutland, Vt. It is the
Continue ReadingTregaron, Ceredigion (1875)
About half a mile from Tregaron there is a ghost. It wears a three cornered hat, barks like a dog, can jump on the backs of four people at once and is becoming so great
Continue ReadingRoath, Cardiff (1897)
A Cardiff Ghost Story. Haunted House in Roath. Strange Experiences. Mysterious knockings heard. “It is not often,” writes one of our representatives,”that it falls to the Pressman’s lot to investigate the strange phenomena of the
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A Young Witch. For the last three weeks an entire quarter of the town of Bordeaux has been thrown into a state of excitement, in consequence of a series of occurrences which seemed traceable to
Continue ReadingKeith Hall, Aberdeenshire (1915)
Keith-Hall Farm Mystery. Malicious mischief or “Black Airt.” For the past five weeks a number of the residents in the quiet agricultural parish of Keith-Hall have been perturbed by mysterious happenings, which to the superstitious
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Spiritualistic manifestations at Wick. There has been a considerable amount of excitement here for the last few days, especially in the Coach Road and neighbourhood, by the alleged outbreak of a series of spiritualistic manifestations
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