A Ghost Detected. For some time past the neighbourhood of Peter’s-hill has been agitated, or amused, with the account of a very sagacious nocturnal visitor in a house there, who, by a tapping kind of
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Halifax, West Yorkshire (1837)
A Carlton-Street “Ghost.” About the year 1837 a crowd of people might have been seen on several occasions gazing at a house in Carlton-street. Some were watching eagerly, desirous of detecting any possibility of fraud,
Continue ReadingBallinlough, County Cork (1836)
A girl of the name of McCarthy was brought into bridewell on Sunday, under circumstances not very usual in this part of the country. She had been playing the ghost in the house of a
Continue ReadingBerwick, East Sussex (1830s, possibly)
Story of an Ex-ghost at Berwick. A letter addressed to Mr. Keys, pilot, Limekiln-street, respecting the annoyance that has disturbed himself and family such a length of time; and by which it appears that a
Continue ReadingBute, Argyll and Bute (c.1837)
An Unquiet Spirit. A paragraph has been “going the rounds,” copied from the Hull Packet, entitled “spirit rappings,” from which it appears that some unquiet spirit has taken refuge in a tenement in a lonely
Continue ReadingChesterfield, Derbyshire (1830)
Replies: Mysterious bell ringing at Chesterfield. Nothing further having appeared in Local Notes and Queries in elucidation of this subject, I give according to promise the extracts relating to it from Bealings Bells, 1841. Mr
Continue ReadingCamden, London (1834)
Mysterious Breaking of Windows, &c. For some days past the inhabitants of Arlington and Nelson-streets, Camden-town, have been annoyed by showers of stones, broken glass bottles, and other missiles, which have not only caused immense
Continue ReadingSt George in the East, London (1836)
Mysterious Annoyance. During the last ten days the family of Mr Jarrard, of No. 46, Upper Cornwall-street, St George’s East, have been greatly annoyed, and the whole neighbourhood disturbed, by the conduct of some malicious
Continue ReadingGreat Bealings, Suffolk (1834)
Bealings Bells. An account of the mysterious ringing of bells, at Great Bealings, Suffolk, in 1834; and in other parts of England: with relations of father unaccountable occurrences, in various places; by Major Edward Moor,
Continue ReadingAberdeen (1831)
Another Ghost Story. The family of the Rev. Mr. Browning, residing in Aberdeen, have been, during the last fortnight, thrown into a state of consternation, by noises which have been raised in the house, such
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