An Extraordinary Ghost Story. The haunted house at Pwlldu. Startling revelations. Authentic story from the rector of Govilon. There has been a time in the history of Wales when the Welsh nation was a class
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Burry Port, Carmarthenshire (1899)
A Musical Ghost. Lively Doings At Burry Port. Seen Enveloped in Foam! Somebody at Burry Port has been emulating the Witch of Endor, and has called “spirits from the vasty deep” to trouble the soul
Continue ReadingTick Fen, Warboys, Cambridgeshire (1897)
Tale of a Fen Ghost. Mysterious Rappings. Some strange phenomena have been startling the huge district of the Great Fen Level of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. It appears that in Tick Fen a Ramsay magistrate has
Continue ReadingDurweston, Dorset (1895)
Durweston. The “Haunted” House. For some weeks of late there has been no small stir among the inhabitants of this parish concerning reports of what is said to have been heard and seen at Norton,
Continue ReadingCoray, Brittany, France (1890)
Stone Throwing Ghosts. People living at Coray, near Quimper, in Brittany, are in a state of great perturbation at present, caused (says a Paris correspondent) by the extraordinary proceedings of invisible beings in a farmhouse
Continue ReadingCarriglea and Ballybricken, Waterford, Ireland (1892)
Also reported as ‘Ballytricking’. Curious Occurrence in Waterford. A house alleged to be haunted. (From our correspondent). Waterford, Monday night. An occurrence of a curious nature, and one which is the all-absorbing topic of
Continue ReadingBlairgowrie, Perthshire (1894)
The Ghostly Drummers of Blairgowrie. A mysterious concert. The inhabitants of a section of a certain street in Blairgowrie have been greatly disturbed of late over mysterious sounds heard at nights. The sounds begin every
Continue ReadingThorney, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (1896)
Extraordinary Ghost Story. Are there such creatures as ghosts? Can the spirits of the departed hold converse with earthly beings? Are there such things as omens, tokens, presentiments, heralds of alarming events, and the like?
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Notes on News. Paris is at present excited over a haunted house, which, contrary to all precedent, is situated in one of the busiest and most frequented streets of the city. The time honoured “mysterious
Continue ReadingEdithweston, Rutland (1896)
Edithweston – Extraordinary Occurrences. The whole district has been recently aroused by a remarkable and at present unexplained phenomenon. At one of the houses in the village loud noises have been repeatedly heard, at all
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