A Ghost in Blackrock. During the last four or five weeks, the residents in Blackrock have been kept in a state of excitement by the constant nocturnal visitations of a rival of the ancient spectral
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Welton, Daventry, Northamptonshire (1658)
Contained in a letter of Mr G. Clark, to Mr M.T. touching an house haunted in Welton near Daventry. Sir, I send you here a relation of a very memorable piece of witchcraft as I
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The Daemon of Burton or A true relation of strange witchcrafts or incantations lately practised at Barton in the Parish of Weobley in Herefordshire. Certified in a letter from a person of credit in Hereford.
Continue ReadingWormleighton, Warwickshire (1857)
Ghosts and their doings. For the last two or three weeks considerable excitement has prevailed in and around Wormleighton in consequence of a very generally-received rumour that Mr Thursby’s house in that village was haunted,
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Strange Deception by a Servant Girl. For some time past, the Rev. T.A. Bolton and family, of New Basford, have been annoyed by numerous supposed malicious acts, which though slight in character, from their repetition
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Mysterious Breaking of Windows, &c. For some days past the inhabitants of Arlington and Nelson-streets, Camden-town, have been annoyed by showers of stones, broken glass bottles, and other missiles, which have not only caused immense
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Mysterious Annoyance. During the last ten days the family of Mr Jarrard, of No. 46, Upper Cornwall-street, St George’s East, have been greatly annoyed, and the whole neighbourhood disturbed, by the conduct of some malicious
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A French Ghost. There is a ghost in Calais, or rank sorcery, or wicked powers of some sort working. In that town dwells a certain Topham, who keeps a factory. In front of the factory
Continue ReadingGateshead, Tyne and Wear (1963)
Gateshead Family May Call in Medium. Ghost of Bronte Street makes four quit home. A “poltergeist” has forced a widow and her three children to quit their home in Bronte Street, Gateshead. The Coulthard family
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Narrative of a Trial for Witchcraft, from some family papers. In the year of our Lord 1679, I, being one of his majesty’s justices of the peace, was present at the assizes, held according to
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