A “Ghost” Mystery Solved. A family in the Meanwood Road district of Leeds have been considerably alarmed of late by the ringing of bells and the knocking of doors in their house. Believing the house
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Hull, East Yorkshire (1897)
Strange Affair in Hull. Wholesale Window-Smashing. The Hull police are at present engaged in investigating a curious circumstance in Linnaeus-street. Commencing on Monday, the windows at the back of a house in that street have
Continue ReadingMonikie, Angus (1893)
Mysterious Affair at Monikie. Stone Throwing by Invisible Hands. There is great excitement at and in the neighbourhood of the farm of Downiebank, Monikie, occupied by Mr Laird. For about a week past Mr Laird’s
Continue ReadingLyon, France (1890)
There is a ghost, and, what is more remakable, a noisy ghost, playing high jinks in a house in the Avenue de Saxe, at Lyons. It is not often that a rowdy specimen of the
Continue ReadingDargelin, Mecklenburg, Germany (1895)
A German Spook. The mind and the nerves of the village of Dorgelin, in Mecklenburg, are much exercised by a spook which is spooking there at a great rate just now. The manifestations take place
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Mystery of a Haunted House. Curious story from Belgium. (From our own correspondent.) Brussels, Sunday. – Certain events similar to those noticed not long since at Valence-en-Brie in France, to which those who are the
Continue ReadingYzeures-sur-Creuse, and Poitiers, and Paris, France (1897)
France. M. Raymond Duplantier, a barrister of Poitiers, has made a study of a haunted house at Yzeures, in Touraine. Properly speaking, it is not the house which is haunted, but the family which inhabits
Continue ReadingValence-en-Brie, Iles-de-France, France (1896 and 1933)
Another French Ghost Story. Just as many Parisians are packing their boxes for a stay on the skirts of the health-giving forest of Fontainebleur the news came that Beelzebub, or a ghost of diabolical tendencies,
Continue ReadingChesterfield, Derbyshire (1891)
Extraordinary Occurrences at Chesterfield. Is it spiritualism? The above question, strange though it may appear these days, has been often asked during the past few days in connection with a series of extraordinary occurrences, which,
Continue ReadingPemberton, Wigan, Lancashire (1892)
Mysterious Affair at Wigan. A Supposed Ghost. The inhabitants of that portion of Pemberton known as Robin Lane Ends have had their feelings shockingly upset during the last two days by the supposed visit of
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