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
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Bradford, 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,
Continue ReadingPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (1868)
A Haunted House. The Pittsburg Leader (United States) tells the following story of a haunted house: – “Some few weeks since a popular undertaker, doing business on Smithfield Street, moved into a house on Clark
Continue ReadingAughrim, County Wicklow (1868)
Extraordinary Hoax. For more than a fortnight the quiet little village of Aughrim was kept in a condition of excitement and suspense by curious nocturnal rappings, and other noises in the house of one of
Continue ReadingQuincy, Coldwater, Michigan, USA (1865)
A Haunted House. Strange noises are heard of nights at the house of Mr Graves, residing a little east of Quincy Centre, usually in or about the sleeping room of his little son, about twelve
Continue ReadingMoldgreen, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (1866)
Moldgreen. Something like a ghost story. On Sunday the inhabitants of Kilner-bank, Moldgreen, became much excited by the report that some unheard, unseen, unknown, and invisible persons had paid that locality a visit, but whether
Continue ReadingMountfield, County Tyrone (1865)
If we can credit “Jeremiah McNeilly, Constable,” the “good people” have been playing fantastic tricks in the County Tyrone. A decent man and his wife have been almost driven out of their humble home by
Continue ReadingParkgate, Rawmarsh, Rotherham, South Yorkshire (1865)
Extraordinary “Manifestations.” An incomprehensible freak on the part of a young girl, named Sibrey, was disclosed at the Rotherham Court House on Monday. The girl lately became servant in the house of a workman at
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