Exorcising the ghost of Treves. After the Holy Coat comes the ghost – in Treves, at any rate. Last autumn a rumour gained currency that a house in that city was haunted. Every evening the
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Bristol (1937)
A pair of pliers that walked. “Goings on ” in haunted office. Ringing bell. Sunday Mercury Special. Psychic investigators have failed to solve the mystery of mysterious happenings in a Bristol office, but they are
Continue ReadingNewtownards, County Down (1998)
Downtown ghost on the graveyard shift. Cleaner spooked by case of the moving ashtrays. By Sue Corbett. Radio chiefs have called in a ghost buster to their Downtown station. Things have been going bump in
Continue ReadingCeredigion (1750s)
[Excerpt from] Manners and Customs of the Welsh. From Bingley’s tour round North Wales. The Roman Cavern, in Llanymynech-hill, called Ogo, has been long noted, as the residence of a clan of the fairy tribe,
Continue ReadingTimberbottom, Bradshaw, Manchester (1920s and 1930s)
The Skull House. An account has been given to the public (Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire), of the Skull House, otherwise Timberbottom, in Turton. We went thither, and examined the skulls. One of them is much
Continue ReadingEpworth, Lincolnshire (1938)
Epworth Ghost Walks Again. Mysterious noises cause alarm. Belton Road, one of the main thoroughfares in Epworth, seems to be the haunt of a ghost. Years ago, “Rowan House,” standing in its own grounds, and
Continue ReadingParis, France (1881)
Stone-throwing by spirits in Paris. Out of the hundred and one cases of stone-throwing by spirits, the following, which has lately taken place in Paris, may be worthy of attention, principally because the manner in
Continue ReadingLlansannan, Conwy (1983)
House ‘spirit’ haunts Maria. By Gareth Hughes. A 20-year-old Clwyd woman claims to be on the verge of a nervous breakdown because of a “restless spirit” in her council house home. Lights kept going on
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Family flee home of terror. Hauntings go back 10 years. A terrified mother-of-four has fled her council house claiming it is haunted. The woman pleaded with council officials to re-house her after strange goings-on at
Continue ReadingBacup, Lancashire (1998)
‘Ghostbusters’ set sights on alien forces. By Neil Graham. An expedition of ghostbusters is heading for Bacup to explore things that go bump in the night and aliens from outer space. The 30 believers say
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