Jug Flies Round Room; Crockery Falls To Bits Scotswoman blames aurora An extraordinary occurrence is reported from the village of Tosta Chaolais, on the west coast of Lewis. In a house on the outskirts of
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Hempstead, Essex (1915)
A Village Mystery. Reported occult happenings at Hempstead. Candlesticks that jumped. The blood of some of the inhabitants of the villages of Hempstead and Helions Bumpstead, two usually quiet parishes in rural North Essex,
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Durweston. The “Haunted” House. For some weeks of late there has been no small stir among the inhabitants of this parish concerning reports of what is said to have been heard and seen at Norton,
Continue ReadingSenghenydd and Abertridwr, Caerphilly, Wales (1906)
A Haunted Man. Weird story of spirit rappings at Senghenydd. A weird, flesh-creeping story of spirit rapping comes from Senghenydd. James Craze, a collier, married, with two children, seems to be followed by the spirit!
Continue ReadingRamsgate, Kent (1947)
Police baffled ‘by strange noises’. ‘It’s a poltergeist’ says medium. “Evening News” reporter. Strange noises in a Ramsgate house, which have baffled the police, are now being investigated by a spiritualist. The medium, who kept
Continue ReadingCoray, Brittany, France (1890)
Stone Throwing Ghosts. People living at Coray, near Quimper, in Brittany, are in a state of great perturbation at present, caused (says a Paris correspondent) by the extraordinary proceedings of invisible beings in a farmhouse
Continue ReadingBath, Somerset (1846)
A Ghost. For some time past the establishment of a linen-draper in this city has been thrown into a state of excitement in consequence of the unusual (and as yet perfectly unaccountable) noises which nightly
Continue ReadingHolbeck, Leeds, West Yorkshire (1917)
The Mysterious Noises at a House in Holbeck. A Six-months problem which baffles solution. The Holbeck “ghost” is not “laid” after all – or, [at any rate] is alive and kicking, or rather rapping, [?]
Continue ReadingBishopstrow, Wiltshire (mid 19th century)
He was not a Bishopstrow man, but he claimed to have some interest in the parish, for his father’s best days were spent in Bishopstrow and many of his happiest holidays were at the Grange.
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Chair-throwing Ghost. Epworth, the birthplace of the founder of Methodism, has long been famed for its ghost of Old Jeffrey, and the mysterious “rappings,” which were heard at the old rectory in the time of
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