Weird Story of Tranmere Sands. A night at the haunted hut. The watch, alarm, and denouement. (From a Correspondent.) “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Some four weeks since there was placed on the beach at
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Bute, Argyll and Bute (c.1837)
An Unquiet Spirit. A paragraph has been “going the rounds,” copied from the Hull Packet, entitled “spirit rappings,” from which it appears that some unquiet spirit has taken refuge in a tenement in a lonely
Continue ReadingMaidstone, Kent (1924)
Brass Knob “Ghost.” The practical joker is about again. A “ghost” which persisted in removing the brass knobs off a bedstead has been disturbing a house in Malling Terrace, Maidstone. An elderly couple, Mr William
Continue ReadingAgen, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (1896)
Interviewing a Ghost. The announcement is gravely made that a ghost has been interviewed by a spiritualist ina haunted house at Agen, in the Department of the Lot-et-Garonne, 73 miles from Bordeaux. The phantom has
Continue ReadingPotters Hill, Birmingham (1876)
Stone-Throwing Extraordinary. About a month since, writes a correspondent, one of those unaccountable cases of stone-throwing occurred at a house situate at Potter’s Hill, Aston, and in the occupation of Mr Dolman, coal merchant, causing
Continue ReadingWeston-super-Mare, Somerset (1851)
A Strange Ghost Story. Much gossip has been occasioned at Weston-super-Mare by a ghost story. John Clark, a gardener, living in a small house near the Infant School, declares that his family, and two labouring
Continue ReadingGreenwich, London (1841)
A Greenwich “Ghost.” Dr A R Wallace tells of a “ghost” which was discovered at Greenwich Hospital about 1841, the story being related to Major Moor by Lieut. Rivers, R.N., a comrade of Nelson. “The
Continue ReadingClonmel, County Tipperary (1906)
Profane Spooks! Extraordinary Pranks. Mysterious manifestations. Particulars of a series of extraordinary and mysterious manifestations which have set the inhabitants of Clonmel all agog for some time past are sent us by our correspondent in
Continue ReadingGolders Green, Barnet, London (1938)
London Ghost Plays Piano (Organ Effects). A ghost which has already driven out the lodgers is now driving a widow and her 23-year-old daughter from their home in Golders Green, N.W. For three months they
Continue ReadingPort Elizabeth (Gqeberha), South Africa (1938)
Spirit Triumphant. An old mansion at Port Elizabeth now stands empty, the aroma of burned joss sticks mingling with mysterious tappings on the walls and the occasional splintering of window panes. Until recently it was
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