Sketches of Eccentric Characters No. 6. The Baron Bailie. Robert Greenhill was born in the parish of Kinnettles early in the year 1735 […] Another thing which caused him much trouble and expense about this
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Plymouth, Devon (1767)
Extract of a letter from Plymouth, Nov. 21. “The conversation of this town in engrossed with a surprizing affair that has happened here, something similar to the Cock-lane ghost: – A gentleman of the law
Continue ReadingCock Lane, London (1762)
From the Whitehall, General and other Evening Papers, etc. Jan. 21. For some time past a great knocking having been heard in the night, at the officiating Parish Clerk’s of St Sepulchre’s, in Cock Lane,
Continue ReadingAberavon, Neath Port Talbot (1760)
Of Apparitions &c. In Glamorganshire. I am now to give an account of the most wonderful actings of a disembodied Spirit that ever I have heard of in this Century, which came to pass in
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They write from Bristol that a sham Ghost is playing tricks there; and that a house near Lawford’s Gate is haunted by a mischievous Devil, who pinches the children there, and won’t let them sleep
Continue ReadingAylesbury, Buckinghamshire (1761)
“We hear from Aylesbury, in Buckinghamshire, that a taylor of that place and his daughter were about Christmas last greatly terrified for some nights by the knocking and scratching of a ghost, which then haunted
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