Catapult riddle Mercury Staff Reporter. Ballistics experts from Aston University have been called in to try to help catch a catapult marksman who has been bombarding the windows of four Birmingham houses with stones for
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South Shields, Tyne and Wear (1945)
Three girls go on the trail of ghosts. A young South Shields housewife has been surprised to hear that her house was “haunted” 20 years ago. Three grammar school girls are going to call on
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Haunted house. Councillors who put a family in a hotel when they fled their “haunted” council house are offering to pay for an exorcism. Derby Council says the family can either join the housing waiting
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Keeper of museum resigns at York after “hauntings”. From our own correspondent, York, Monday. A special meeting of the council of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society at York today decided to accept the resignation of the
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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