“Laying” of a ghost at Leeds. A respectable family residing in Nippet Lane, Stony Rock, Leeds, have been for the past six or eight weeks seriously disturbed in mind by the extraordinary noises heard from
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Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (1853)
Spirit “Rapping.” A strange story is current that the houses occupied by Mr Hardy, brazier, Mr Palmer, draper, and Mr Sawyer, watchmaker, situate in Narrow-street, are nightly haunted by the spirit of the late departed
Continue ReadingCork, County Cork (1853)
Extraordinary Circumstance. During the past week the residents in the neighbourhood of Quaker-road have been thrown into a state of much excitement by a very singular and almost unaccountable phenomenon, which has furnished the lovers
Continue ReadingArdonald, Cairnie, Aberdeenshire (1852)
Something Mysterious. Cairnie, Dec. 18th. The good people about Ardonald, a few weeks ago, were honoured with a visit from a being of another world. Whether it was his Satanic Majesty in person, or some
Continue ReadingMilnthorpe, Cumbria (1856)
The Mysterious. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the inhabitants of Milnthorpe were in a state of considerable excitement, we may say almost astonishment and terror, in consequence of it being known that the windows
Continue ReadingBarton, Cambridgeshire (1857)
The Ghosts of Cambridge. Surely if we are to believe in all the reports we hear, there has been a revolution in some grave-yard, and some of the most captious have been exciled; if so,
Continue ReadingDanville, County Kilkenny (1857)
A True Ghost Story. An evil spirit, which for some time past has been indulging in very strange antics and exciting no small terror and annoyance amongst her Majesty’s lieges in a locality closely neighbouring
Continue ReadingBordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (1850)
A Young Witch. For the last three weeks an entire quarter of the town of Bordeaux has been thrown into a state of excitement, in consequence of a series of occurrences which seemed traceable to
Continue ReadingSouthwark, London (1853)
A Haunted House in Lambeth. From a Correspondent. Since Saturday last the inhabitants of Park-street, Lock’s Fields, and its surrounding neighbourhood, have been kept in a state of excitement, produced by a circumstance of somewhat
Continue ReadingStratford, Connecticut, USA (1850)
Case of Dr. Phelps. The case of Dr. Phelps, of Stratford, Connecticut, is of equal notoriety [to the Prunay case], but it is not a case of stone-throwing, but of his windows broken before his
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