A Haunted House. The Greenock correspondent of the North British Mail says, “It will scarcely be credited, but it is not the less true, that a rumour is afloat that a garret house in a
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Hope Cove (Outer Hope and Inner Hope), Devon (1858)
A Ghost at Hope. – A correspondent sends us the following, of which we give his own version: – “A few days since or rather nights, a very singular circumstance occurred at one of the
Continue ReadingBermondsey, London (1857)
Capture of a Ghost. For several days a considerable deal of excitement had been caused in the neighbourhood of London-street, Dockhead, in consequence of its being reported, and actually believed by many, that one of
Continue ReadingWeston-super-Mare, Somerset (1851)
A Strange Ghost Story. Much gossip has been occasioned at Weston-super-Mare by a ghost story. John Clark, a gardener, living in a small house near the Infant School, declares that his family, and two labouring
Continue ReadingAberystwyth, Ceredigion (1852)
Aberystwith. A Haunted House. The inhabitants of this town were surprised on the night of St. David’s Day, to hear that a house was haunted with ghosts, in Baker Street, where thousands of people were
Continue ReadingWormleighton, Warwickshire (1857)
Ghosts and their doings. For the last two or three weeks considerable excitement has prevailed in and around Wormleighton in consequence of a very generally-received rumour that Mr Thursby’s house in that village was haunted,
Continue ReadingNew Basford, Nottingham (1852)
Strange Deception by a Servant Girl. For some time past, the Rev. T.A. Bolton and family, of New Basford, have been annoyed by numerous supposed malicious acts, which though slight in character, from their repetition
Continue ReadingOld Kent Road, London (1855)
The Cock-Lane Ghost Again. Police Intelligence. Lambeth this day. – Fanny Parker, a young woman, lately a servant residing with Mr Charles Henry Kutse, a merchant’s clerk, residing at 339, Albany-road, Old Kent-road, was placed
Continue ReadingAberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales (1857)
A Ghost Story. During the past fortnight the lovers of the marvellous have had a considerable fund for gossip, relative to some supernatural occurrences said to have taken place at the house of Griffith Davies,
Continue ReadingBoxley, Maidstone, Kent (1859)
The Haunted House. Mr Martin, of the Ashford Road, in Boxley, near Maidstone, has, for several weeks past, had his household seriously disturbed by a number of mysterious noises, which became pretty regular visitants of
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