More ghosts. A circumstance entirely novel in Chester has to come to light within these few days, which has excited considerable alarm in the neighbourhood. About six months since, a person under the employ of
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Kennington, London (1810)
Extraordinary Case. The neighbourhood of Kennington has for some time past been both amused and alamred by an unusual and extraordinary circumstance. – A respectable person, while at home at his house, about one o’clock
Continue ReadingLancaster, New Hampshire, USA (1818)
The Farrar House Mystery. The house in which the following remarkable event occurred, was situated on the spot where the Catholic parsonage now stands, and was known as the Farrar house. It is ony a
Continue ReadingSoho Square (1810s)
The following recent instance is extracted from the London Papers. “A most extraordinary attack for above two months past has been made upon the windows of Mr Hodgson, a large army-clothier in Soho square, and
Continue ReadingPaisley, Renfrewshire (1818)
Haunted House. For about two months the inhabitants of a three-story house, in Lady-lane of Paisley, were alarmed with an unusual sound in the night time. At first it created no great sensation, it having
Continue ReadingNorthwood, Shropshire (1811)
Haunted House. The inhabitants of Northwood Green, near Wem, Cambridgeshire [sic, evidently Shropshire] are in the utmost consternation, in consequence of some extraordinary disturbances in a house near the turnpike. Brick bats, stones, and lumps
Continue ReadingLeith, Edinburgh (1810)
A whimsical farce has been carried on in Leith, for those eight days past, which equals in mystery, and exceeds in mischief, the achievements of the some time celebrated Sourhole Ghost. The habitations of two
Continue ReadingThe Tower of London (1816)
Alarm in the Tower. For some weeks past a family residing in the Tower of London have been very much annoyed and disturbed by a variety of unpleasant and strange noises heard in different parts
Continue ReadingKedington, Suffolk (1816)
Imposture Detected. One of those silly and vicious instances of imposition, to create alarm and induce the belief of supernatural agency, has been lately put in practice in this neighbourhood. From the 26th of January
Continue ReadingLeicester (1815)
To the disgrace of this enlightened age, a belief in the appearance of ghosts and apparitions still seems to exist in the mind, and exert its baneful influence over the actions of a considerable part
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