Selby “Ghost” Story. Weird Sounds in a Labourer’s Cottage. Strange death-chamber scene. Mysterious rappings in a labourer’s cottage at Selby have set the whole town agog with excitement, and the house in South Parade has
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Fleetwood, Lancashire (1943)
Spiritualists hold seance in mystery house. Strange noises end after investigation. First a plumber, then the police, and finally Spiritualists were called into a house in Poulton-road, Fleetwood, to investigate mysterious knocking sounds that seemed
Continue ReadingAberarth, Ceredigion (1909)
Rapped in Mystery. Weird events in a Welsh village. The inhabitants of the little village of Aberarth, which lies on the shores of Cardigan Bay, are much perturbed at the extraordinary happenings in two houses.
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Three Raps Mysterious Noises at a Staveley Inn. Certain noises which have been recently heard at a Staveley Inn have given rise to alarm on the part of the occupants of the house – a
Continue ReadingCullompton, Devon (1925)
Spirit Rapping? Baffling mystery at Cullompton. Intense interest has been aroused at Cullompton by some mysterious knockings at the front door of Mr. J. Harris’s house at the top of Exeter-hill. The rappings have been
Continue ReadingLeeds, West Yorkshire (1945)
Horsforth ‘poltergeist’ busy. Police puzzled but medium stops raps. In the old-world, rosebush flanked district of Woodside, Horsforth, 75-year-old Mrs. Annie Eanor lives in fear with her daughter, Mrs. Lily Wrighton, and her granddaughter, Gladys,
Continue ReadingLeeds, West Yorkshire (1949)
Strange doings at a Leeds house. Poltergeist or a practical joker? By a “Yorkshire Post” Reporter. Two Leeds police officers searched a terrace house in Headingley last night for a “ghost” which is said to
Continue ReadingYzeures-sur-Creuse, and Poitiers, and Paris, France (1897)
France. M. Raymond Duplantier, a barrister of Poitiers, has made a study of a haunted house at Yzeures, in Touraine. Properly speaking, it is not the house which is haunted, but the family which inhabits
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Mysterious Rappings at a Marton Dwelling-house. A good deal of excitement and curiosity has been caused by mysterious occurrences at a house at Marton, South Lincolnshire. For some time past the occupiers have been disturbed
Continue ReadingVersailles, Ile-de-France, France (1922)
Rivals to Ghost Lively Scenes at Haunted House Paris, Sunday. The haunted house of Versailles in the Rue Baillet is a popular success. The day before yesterday 200 visitors came between ten and midnight, and
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