Spooked! Ghostly goings-on force terrified family to flee house. Story: Steve Dixon. Pictures: Robert Prosser. A mother and her two children have been driven from their home by a bizarre and frightening psychic phenomenon. Kathryn
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Liverpool (1887)
A Liverpool Hotel Haunted. Extraordinary Phenomena. The difference between a psychological phenomenon and a weird visitation from the Spirit World has frequently been productive of heated and conflicting controversy between even men of high and
Continue ReadingBracknell, Berkshire (1949)
“Ghost” dislikes radio. An “unruly spirit” is said to haunt the house of Mr and Mrs William Still, in New Road, Bracknell, Berks. Mr Still said to-day: “It keeps on throwing our radio set on
Continue ReadingPlymouth, Devon (1964)
Bishop sees ghost house. By Reg Scott. A bishop has been called in to help three families who say a poltergeist is bombarding them with lumps of coal. The families, who live in flats at
Continue ReadingSurrency, Appling County, Georgia (1872)
A Georgia Sensation. From the Macon (Ga.) Enterprise, Oct. 21. On Saturday afternoon we published a brief paragraph, stating that strange and supernatural manifestations had taken place at house No. 6, Macon and Brunswick Railroad.
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Vicious Ghosts in a Chicago Hotel. Ghosts, invisible but persistent and vicious, have invaded a cheap Chicago hotel, and have spread such terror through the building that the police have been asked to protect the
Continue ReadingVladikavkaz, Russia (1904)
An Attractive Girl. A Phenomenon who can make stones jump. A strange phenomenon has been observed in a girl of twelve residing at Vladikavkas in the Caucasus. The girl is the daughter of a workman
Continue ReadingFyvie, Aberdeenshire (1885)
I used to think that the dread of witchcraft had disappeared with our superstitious forefathers, and that in this enlightened age the uncanny arts had ceased to cast their terrorizing influence over the credulous crowd.
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Capture of a Ghost. For several days a considerable deal of excitement had been caused in the neighbourhood of London-street, Dockhead, in consequence of its being reported, and actually believed by many, that one of
Continue ReadingCatshill, Worcestershire (1869)
Catshill. A Haunted (?) House. There has been quite a sensation here recently, in consequence of stones dropping on and around the weigh bench of a nail shop at Marlbrook, in what is thought to
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