The ghosts of two children are believed to be haunting a Lincoln home. And the hauntings centre around the airing cupboard of the Tilt family’s Victorian property off Monks Road. The couple told the L
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Hampstead, London (1948)
Charlie the ghost takes a fancy to fish. It isn’t safe to leave things lying around in a basement flat in Adamson-road, Hampstead, London. Residents say it is haunted – by a hunchback ghost they
Continue ReadingCape Town, South Africa (1904)
Cape Town “Ghosts”. Knives, crockery, glass and furniture thrown about. Cape Town has been suffering from a ghostly presence which has thrown knives, crockery, glass and stones through the air, banged furniture about, and knocked
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Boy’s terror in house of the vampire. A six-year-old boy has fled his Birmingham home because he believes a ghostly woman and her little girl are haunting him. Terrified Adam Hemming has refused to set
Continue ReadingHarlow, Essex (1984)
Making some sense of the inexplicable by Nick Wood Hallowe’en has been ritualised into a time of pumpkins, lanterns and young scamps tricking and treating on our doorsteps. But the evening of October 31 also
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Mystery force drives family from their home. A terrified Birmingham family have fled their home and moved in with neighbours because, they claim, a poltergeist began wrecking their possessions. They say a strange force disrupted
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Jewel case bail. Stephanie Wickenden, 22, of 119 St Johns Road, Tunbridge Wells, who is pleading not guilty to dishonestly assisting in the removal and disposal of stolen jewellery between January 22 and February 9,
Continue ReadingPolgear, Wendron, Cornwall (1896)
The Galloping Horse. The usually quiet and peaceful district of Polgear, Wendron, has been disturbed by the apparently aimless eccentricities of what is termed by superstitious people, a ghost. This fortunately rare commodity has favoured
Continue ReadingBury St Edmunds, Suffolk (1842)
A knocking ghost! To the Editor. Sir, – That the peasantry of Suffolk were famed of old in the use of superstitious observances, and a belief in supernatural appearances, is not so much to be
Continue ReadingRosendael, Dunkirk, Nord, France (1890s)
[…] Another “scare” occurred not long ago at Rosendael, a village situated at the gates of Dunkirk, where a certain house was without warning invaded by the very mischievous “sprites” who pelt passers-by with stones
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