Spiritual Guerillas. A most lamentable comedy of spiritual guerilla war is waging its mysterious course at Cherbourg, where, says the “Newcastle Chronicle” correspondent, the ghosts are wreaking upon the procurator of the Republic the wrongs
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Alsagers Bank, Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (1875)
A Staffordshire Ghost Story. The Staffordshire Times gives to its readers a local ghost story. Considerable excitement has prevailed throughout the neighbourhood of Alsager’s Bank, near Newcastle, for the last three or four weeks, owing
Continue ReadingLamberhurst, Kent (1906)
Furnace Mill in 2002. CC photograph by Oliver Dixon. The “Daily Mail” Investigates The Lamberhurst “Ghost.” We quote the following from Monday’s “Daily Mail”:- Strange, unaccountable things are befalling in the neighbourhood of Lamberhurst,
Continue ReadingNewark, New Jersey, USA (1852)
A Haunted House in New Jersey. The Knickerbocker, New York magazine, publishes the following extraordinary letter from a correspondent for whose veracity it pledges itself:- “Down in New Jersey, August 5, 1852. Dear Knick, –
Continue ReadingCrewe, Cheshire (1891)
Strange Ghost Story at Crewe. It is seldom a week goes by without some startling revelation is made in Crewe, and the latest has reference to a ghost, which is supposed to haunt a house
Continue ReadingParkgate, Rawmarsh, Rotherham, South Yorkshire (1865)
Extraordinary “Manifestations.” An incomprehensible freak on the part of a young girl, named Sibrey, was disclosed at the Rotherham Court House on Monday. The girl lately became servant in the house of a workman at
Continue ReadingBronllys, Talgarth, Powys (1888)
What is it – Spirit or Man? We have received the following interesting communication from the Rev. W.J. Davies, of Bronllys, near Talgarth, respecting the extraordinary manifestations at his house: “I have never as yet
Continue ReadingCowley, Oxford (1872)
Notes from Oxford. There is no doubt that a spice of the supernatural adds wonderfully to the charm of a tale of a neighbourhood, and (where one is not required to sleep in it alone
Continue ReadingGilford, County Down (1868)
To the Editor of the Belfast Morning News. Sir, – Ghost stories are an old institution in every country under the sun. Many a deadly wound they have got from the redoubtable pen of the
Continue ReadingBallinlough, County Cork (1836)
A girl of the name of McCarthy was brought into bridewell on Sunday, under circumstances not very usual in this part of the country. She had been playing the ghost in the house of a
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