The Sheep Street Ghosts. A few mornings ago, shortly after the solemn, silent midnight hour – “When churchyards yawn and graves give up their dead!” – a terrible commotion was observed by our ever-vigilant borough
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South Shields, Tyne and Wear (1860)
A Ghost Story. Yesterday, Mrs Barbara Coltman, shipowner, who did not appear, but who was represented by Mr Wheldon, solicitor, was summoned before the South Shields Bench by Mr George Gibson, shipowner, of the same
Continue ReadingKilmarnock, East Ayrshire (1860)
Kilmarnock, March 23. Singular Accident. About one o’clock on Friday morning a rather singular accident occurred in No. 3 Hillhead Pit, in the neighbourhood of this town. Peter McGinnes, a young unmarried man, who is
Continue ReadingBlackburn, Lancashire (1869)
The Blackburn “Ghost” Mystery. During the past month or five weeks between 200 and 300 panes of glass have been mysteriously broken in some cottage houses known as Union-buildings, Daisyfield, Blackburn. The object of this
Continue ReadingCheshunt, Hertfordshire (1850s?)
I dare say that a good many of your readers have read Dickens’s “Haunted House.” There is a Defoe-like truthfulness about soem of the tales which must have struck most readers, and the thought must
Continue ReadingBetws-y-coed, Conwy (1862)
Popular superstition in Wales. To the Editor of the North Wales Chronicle. [Ghost] number two is much more extraordinary, and requires a longer description. The occurrence took place some years ago near to Bettws
Continue ReadingCamblesforth, North Yorkshire (1860)
The Camblesforth Boggard. During the last week the peaceable village of Camblesforth, near Selby, has been kept in a state of the greatest excitement by the alarms created in a most unaccountable manner, in the
Continue ReadingMossbank, Shetland Islands (1862)
Mossbank – Jan. 9, 1862. A Ghost. In the usually quiet neighbourhood of Mossbank there rarely occurs anything to disturb the ordinary current of events. But within the last ten days not a little excitement
Continue ReadingSt Just in Penwith, Cornwall (1869)
A Ghost! A Ghost!! In this year of grace 1869 the usually quiet little town of St Just was disturbed from its wonted equanimity, a few days since – by a rumour to the effect
Continue ReadingYiewsley, London (1860)
A Ghost Story. Some few weeks ago, a small cottage, in the neighbourhood of Yiewsley, occupied by a poor man, his wife, and an only daughter, the latter in ill-health, was the theme of considerable
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