Spirited away! A family who claimed to be terrorised by a ghost have been re-housed. Christine Chambers, 28, complained of nightly hauntings which began six weeks ago and said a ghost was haunting her two-year-old
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Bristol (1950)
The ghost they call Mrs It may be moving today. Today’s number one task for Mrs Lucy Baber, Bristol housewife, is to get rid of the four old trunks in her boxroom. The ghost that
Continue ReadingNew Cross, London (1971)
Maisie weeps as the census ghost is spirited away. By Richard Stott. Joe the ghost won’t be going down on Maisie Batchelor’s census form after all. The spirit that haunted her home for eighteen years
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Family flee home as haunting turns violent. By Conor Feehan. A family has been forced to flee its home after claims that ghosts and poltergeists made their life hell, dragging them from their beds, beating
Continue ReadingBlackshaw Head, West Yorkshire (1804)
A singular, yet melancholy, accident lately happened at Blackshaw, near Stansfield. The following are the particulars, which plainly demonstrate that the age of superstition is not yet passed. An aged man, of the name of
Continue ReadingAirlie, Angus (1845)
The Truth About Ghosts. To the editor of “The Daily Telegraph.” Sir, – I can confirm the story of “the Drummer boy.” The following facts were related to me, not long after their occurrence, by
Continue ReadingFenny Compton, Warwickshire (1924)
“Ghost” juggles with fire-irons Sleepless nights for Fenny Compton cottagers From a Gazette correspondent, Leamington, Monday. The Fenny Compton “ghost” has assumed a new role of activity. Not content with its ramblings on the hills,
Continue ReadingBarby, Northamptonshire (1851)
The Barby Ghost. The quiet and sequestered village of Barby is all in an uproar, in consequence of its being believed, even by the least credulous, that the spirit of Sarah Webb either descends or
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Stone-throwing extraordinary. On Wednesday and Thursday evenings the inhabitants of Bedford-street suffered considerable loss and annoyance through the breakage of their windows by some, at present undiscovered miscreants. The plan of these diabolical operations seems
Continue ReadingBrowndown Camp / Battery, Hampshire (1895)
“Ghosts” at Browndown. For some months past (says the Western Morning News) the huts at Browndown have had the reputation of being haunted. Browndown is a desolate spot at the best of times, and in
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