A Ghost. On Tuesday evening a very large crowd congregated opposite the house of Mr Bligh, Church-street. Sounds were heard proceeding from various parts of the house. Sometiems from the money box, and frequently from
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Burnley, Lancashire (1861)
Pickup Croft was an area of mainly back-to-backs that was demolished for the bus station. https://www.bcthic.org/Articles/Pickup_Croft The Parker’s Arms: https://redrosecollections.lancashire.gov.uk/view-item?i=278747&WINID=1649593680761&key=QnsiUCI6eyJpdGVtX2lkIjpbMjc4NzQ3XX0sIkYiOiJleUp6SWpwYk1Td3lMRFFzTTExOSJ9&pg=1 – so the house is one of those in the photo. Mysterious Window Smashing. An
Continue ReadingRedruth, Cornwall (1869)
Superstition in Redruth. Thomas Medlin, sawyer, lives with his wife, married daughter and two children, in two upper rooms of a small house close to the ‘Round House,’ a well-known building situated near the Gas
Continue ReadingNainital, Uttarakhand, India (1863)
A Ghost at Nynee Tal. We read in the Hurkaru: – “The Cock Lane Ghost has been rusticating at Nynee Tal, and has moreover had the good taste to fix its temporary residence in the
Continue ReadingBroom Court, Bidford on Avon, Warwickshire (1869)
Mysterious Circumstance. Broom Court, the residence of John Lane, Esq., has for some days past been the scene of considerable excitement in consequence of the mysterious ringing of the bells of the house. Many strange
Continue ReadingPishill, Oxfordshire (1868)
Spirit Rapping. (?) To the Editor of the Reading Mercury. Sir, – Will you please give the following account a place in your Paper? – At Pishill Bank, mid-way between Henley and Watlington, in an
Continue ReadingHuntingdon, Cambridgeshire (1865)
Huntingdon. A Ghost! Some fun and excitement was caused in this town last week by the alleged performance of a ghost (which no one had seen) by repeated violent knocking in and about the house
Continue ReadingBradford, West Yorkshire (1867)
A Great Ghost Hunt By Policemen. When we say this, we mean it, and it happened in this way. Between a fortnight and three weeks ago, strange knockings, continued from time to time, were heard
Continue ReadingSmethwick, West Midlands (1866)
Mysterious Stone Throwing. The idle, mischievous practice of stone throwing has been developed into an art in the unromantic hamlet of Smethwick. These are not days for original ghosts, they have ceased to trouble our
Continue ReadingMassachusetts, USA (1868)
A Remarkable Case of Physical Phenomena. (From the Atlantic Monthly). Mary Carrick is an Irish girl, eighteen years of age, who came to this country in the month of May, 1867. She is very ignorant,
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