“The Ghost of Aspenshaw.” Believers in witchcraft and other kinds of mysterious agencies to bring various causes into effect, are happily not so numerous as evidently they were some 50 or 60 years, although there
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Barcelona, Spain (1824)
Ignorance, and its inseparable attendant, Superstition, appear to pursue their march through Spain; and the impediments constantly thrown in the way of the development of light and instruction, have the effect of giving a deeper
Continue ReadingMarylebone, London (1820)
[It’s quite hard to spot to where this refers as the road names have changed] Mysterious Case. Marlborough-Street. On Saturday an investigation which excited the greatest interest, and lasted till a very late hour,
Continue ReadingBalquhidder, Perthshire (1820s?)
The Balquhidder Ghost. In a wild sequestered nook of the pastoral and poetical braes of Balquhidder, stands a fair stone house and garden, which have been untenanted for years, in consequence of the supposed visitations
Continue ReadingThrussington, Leicestershire (1822)
A most extraordinary sensation was excited at the village of Thrussington, near Mountsorrel, on Saturday last, and the wisdom of the wisest amongst the wise has hitherto been incapable of developing the mystery. About a
Continue ReadingLimehouse, London (1827)
A Limehouse Ghost. The neighbourhood of Limehouse, like the Highlands, in the good old days of the bogles, has, it seems, been haunted for some months back by a most refractory and incorrigible phantom. The
Continue ReadingLulworth, Dorset (1825)
The Lulworth Ghost; or, Cock Lane Revived. On vulgar superstition and its firm belief in speaking shadows and apparitions we think it useless at present to descant, as the following facts, which transpired some time
Continue ReadingKonstanz, Germany (1820)
Caution to Journeymen Printers. The following curious story is gravely stated in a French paper: – Towards the close of the last year loud groans and sighs were repeatedly heard to issue from a corner
Continue ReadingRutherglen, South Lanarkshire (1825)
Wanton Mischief. Last week a respectable family in Rutherglen were molested with a rather singular species of annoyance. Their dwelling-house is inclosed with walls, part of which form a back area or court, containing wash-house,
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Singular Story. A considerable sensation was caused in Skeldergate, in this city (York), on Sunday morning last, by the report that a Mrs Tyndall, who resides there, had seen her mother, who had been dead
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