Goblins In Paris. To the Editor of the Morning Post. Paris, August 22. Sir, The following singular specimen of the mysterious has just occurred in this City. I need not mention to you that it
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Edgefield, South Carolina, USA (1829)
The Edgefield Ghost. The Edgefield Carolinian, a paper published in South Carolina, at a town of that name, contains in its number of the 11th of July last, the following statement of facts, in relation
Continue ReadingElgin, Moray (1829)
Something Mysterious. Touching the subject of ghosts, apparitions, spectres, and all the tribe of supernaturals, there is as great a diversity of opinion in the country, as exists on the Catholic Question, the Apocrypha Controversy,
Continue ReadingMeifod, Montgomeryshire (1821)
The newspapers of a hundred years ago – September 1821 – recorded a marvellous ghostly visitation at Rhosbenbwa Farm, in the pretty Montgomeryshire village of Meifod. The occupier of the house was Mr Thomas Jones,
Continue ReadingNorwich, Norfolk (1826)
The Tailor and the Ghost!! Horrible! Most horrible!! A letter from Norwich, dated Tuesday, contains the following:- “The City of Norwich has been for several days past thrown into very great alarm occasioned by strange
Continue ReadingHolme, Cumbria (1823)
A Ghost or something else!! A respectable farmer and his family, at Holme, near Burton-in-Kendal, have for some weeks back, been much annoyed and disturbed in the night, by a strange kind of noise, as
Continue ReadingRushton Spencer, Staffordshire (1829)
A Haunted House. For some time past, the house of Mr Goodfellow, who resides at Rushton, and near Hug Bridge, on the confines of the counties of Chester and Stafford, has been the scene of
Continue ReadingParis, France (1826)
Mysterious Affair in Paris. We alluded a few days since to the notorious history of the Stockwell Ghost as forming a curious coincidence with a scene of a more serious nature lately acted in one
Continue ReadingNewington, London (1825)
Union Hall – The Walworth Ghost. On Saturday, Snow, the Constable of Newington, introduced an elderly man and his son into this Office, saying he understood that they had a singular application to prefer, the
Continue ReadingParis, France (1829)
The Paris Ghost. It may be remembered that about two years ago the French Papers gave an account of a great number of stones thrown by invisible hands, for several successive days, to the great
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