A Strange Story. Sort of a meteoric display around the bed of a sick man. A Syracuse dispatch to the New York World says:- Richard Stevens, a well-to-do farmer, who resides with his wife and
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St Helens, Lancashire (1885)
An Alleged Ghost at St. Helens. Mysterious stone throwing nightly, at Beecham’s Pill Factory, St Helens, said to be the work of a ghost, has caused great excitement in the town. Last night the
Continue ReadingGrimsby, Lincolnshire (1882)
A Prankish Ghost at Grimsby. The greatest curiosity is excited in Grimsby in consequence of the occurence of some marvellous performances which no one as yet can account for by a natural hypothesis. These extraordinary
Continue ReadingGrange Court, Gloucestershire (1886)
Mysterious Affair at Newnham. A singular affair is just now engaging the attention of the police in the Newnham-on-Severn district. Near the Grange Court Junction Station of the Great Western Railway there is a beerhouse
Continue ReadingLarne, County Antrim (1884)
A Haunted House. Mysterious occurrences were reported on Wednesday by a Larne correspondent. He says a house there, occupied by a railway guard, has become known as the “haunted house” owing to strange manifestations. The
Continue ReadingAberdaron, Gwynedd (1889)
The Haunted Farm and the Bewitched Bull. A story from Wales. Extraordinary sights and sounds have been manifested nightly (says a correspondent of the Liverpool Post) at Bodurdda Farm, not far from Aberdarron and Bardsey
Continue ReadingHigher Holnest, Devon (1886)
Holnest. A Ghost Story. A correspondent writes that there is a mystery as yet unexplained with regard to peculiar noises in an old cottage with four or five rooms on the ground floor, and an
Continue ReadingLoppington, Wem, Shropshire (1883)
Remarkable Occurrences Near Ellesmere. A Farm House Partially Wrecked. A series of remarkable occurrences, which have caused great excitement in the whole neighbourhood between Ellesmere, Wem, and Shrewsbury, are said to have taken place at
Continue ReadingHomington, Wiltshire (1889)
(worst attack of being paid by the inch that I’ve come across) Supposed Witchcraft at Homington. A little girl said to have been bewitched. The 19th century is one in which an allegation that witchcraft
Continue ReadingHigh Littleton, Somerset (1889)
A Ghost At High Littleton. The inhabitants of this sober and well conducted village have been thrown into a state of great perturbation of late in consequence of an alleged being from another world. The
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