Who’s that tapping on the stairs? Loud tapping noises, low humming and heavy breathing is making life tedious for Mrs Marion Smout, of Hawthorn Road, Downall Green, near Wigan. For middle-aged Mrs Smout firmly believes
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Westwood, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (2002)
Ghosts: Woman wants her house exorcised. Sylvia Smith’s house she claims is haunted and inset, the Very Rev Michael Bunker, Dean of Peterborough. “My dead sister seeks revenge” claims woman. By Irena Barker. A city
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Father-of-five, 62, could find his haunted house is re-possessed. Arthur flees home to escape a ghost. By David Humphrey. Handyman Arthur Maidment is in danger of losing his council home – because of a ghost.
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An Extraordinary Ghost Story from Madeley Wood. In the nineteenth century we have many strange discoveries, new theories started, old ones ridiculed to be re-established by another generation, the greatest assembly of the greatest of
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The Weekly Club. “The Weekly Club” is a corner intended to be devoted to the discussion of all matters bearing on the social life, manners, and customs of the people. Ghosts or Witches. Although I
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Ghosts in Gray’s Inn. Some weeks ago strange pranks began to be played in certain houses of Field Court – it was when workmen commenced to busy themselves with the wall of an old house
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Ghostly goings-on force family to move house five times. Warrior spirit haunts couple. By George Tattum. Exclusive. A terrified couple have had their lives torn apart by an evil spirit which has forced them to
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Zang Zhongying of You Fufeng was a Shiyushi (Attendant Eunuch). When his family prepared food and set the table, some unclear dust or dirt fell onto it to defile it. Just as the rice was
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History and Biography Ina Hayes The Cotton Girl A Wonderful Phenomenon Copyright 1891, by Marion Hayes. (Cairo, Illinois. Cairo Daily Telegram Print.) Introduction. In order to preserve the history of a wonderful case that has
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The Nicklheim Case of 1968-69. Our most recent case occurred in Nicklheim, a small Bavarian village ten miles distant from Rosenheim. Over a period of four months a small family, comprised of a working-man, his
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