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
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Betws-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
Continue ReadingLiverpool (1868)
Mysterious bombardment of a house in Liverpool. During the past day or two (says the Liverpool Mercury) no little commotion has been produced in Hutchinson-street, out of Baker-street, West Derby-road, and its immediate neighbourhood, by
Continue ReadingMeoble, Arisaig, Highlands (1867)
Has the bruit and fame of the Meoble ghost, or “goblin damned” rather, yet reached you at Inverness. An ill-natured, uncompanionable rogue, and very strong and substantial withal, is this the same monster apparition, that
Continue ReadingMilwich, Staffordshire (1868)
The Supernatural! A correspondent, living in the neighbourhood of Milwich, has forwarded the following: – The inhabitants of this district, about a mile from Milwich, have been greatly surprised during the last and previous three
Continue ReadingEtherley, County Durham (1865)
A Ghost at Etherley. For some weeks past the inhabitants of the quiet villages of Etherley and West Auckland have been thrown into alarm and excitement by a statement that a ghost is to be
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