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Berg-geister. – Clamps-in-the-Wood. By William Howitt. It is a curious question to what extent variety of spirits reach in the invisible world. The variety of animated life in the world is infinite, measuring from the

Is an Astley Abbotts cottage haunted? The tune ‘December, it always happens in December’ is becoming convincing to the villagers of Astley Abbotts. They are, perhaps, beginning to wonder whether funny things happen every December.

“Ghost” hunt near Blaydon. There was an alleged haunted house near Blaydon, occupied by a widow and her family. Sounds of mysterious tappings had been heard recently. Offers to assist the old lady in “laying

Alderley Street was in a dense maze of terraced houses – the slums were demolished in the 60s and 70s and replaced by the infamous Hulme ‘Crescents’ (which were once again eventually replaced). Old maps

Our most haunted. By Christina McKenna. Shop-owner Anne thought she was going mad. An understandable reaction to the impossible, the bizarre. On a chill November morning in 1992, she’d left home at the usual hour

An Electric Girl. A curious natural phenomena was brought before the Paris Academy of Science at its sitting of Monday last – it is that of a girl, of but thirteen years of age, who

Aiimu beliefs. As has been previously demonstrated the part played by the ancestral spirits in the life of the A-Kamba is intensely real, and further research has brought to light several points worthy of notice.

Mrs H., on reaching Plymouth, applied to me to aid her in procuring lodgings, which she required to be on a respectable but economic scale. The only ones I knew of belonged to Symmonds, our

Coupland Castle Haunted? Mysterious sounds heard. (Berwick Journal and North Northumberland News Special and Exclusive). Few are the castles which have not their haunted chambers and ghost stories, and even in our own neighbourhood we

Alleged Assaults. W. Maurice Jones, auctioneer, summoned David Evans, Mitre Inn, for assault. Mr Pryce Picton was for the complainant, and Mr William George for the defendant. Complainant said that he was living at Gallt-felen