A haunted house at Steeton. No little sensation has been caused in the village of Steeton, near Keighley, by a story that a cottage house at Lane Ends is haunted. The house is occupied by
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Kenilworth, Warwickshire (1907)
An invisible ghost. To the editor of “The Referee”. Sir, – When I married in 1889 we went to live in a very pretty creeper-covered cottage in the Kenilworth district – a fuller description might
Continue ReadingBuckinghamshire (1892)
Local ghost stories and strange happenings. E. G— says: Within an hour and a half’s easy walk from Buckingham Town Hall stands my house, and its living persons comprise self, wife, and children . About
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Haunted houses are going out of fashion even in periodicals brought out especially for Christmas – a period of the years when stories of the kind used to be far more plentiful than they are
Continue ReadingPenrith, Cumbria (1898)
Remarkable affair at Penrith. Windows smashed and garden wrecked. Looking for “a ghost.” One of the most mysterious affairs which has been known in the district for a long time is under investigation at Penrith,
Continue ReadingFeagh, County Meath (1898)
Kells Board of Guardians, Saturday. An unusual sort of ghost. John Brennan, Tullatin, wrote on the 5th August: “I regret that I had to leave the labourer’s cottage at Feagh from a continuation both day
Continue ReadingWestminster, London (1890)
“The Rochester Row Ghost.” Mysterious shower of bricks. A well-dressed young man named George Champion, living at 64, Rochester-row, Westminster, appeared to summons before Mr de Rutzen, at the Westminster Police Court yesterday, charging him
Continue ReadingCranbrook, Kent (1896)
Cranbrook. Mysterious. To the residential inmates of one of our country residences, occupying a pleasant position within Cranbrookian precincts, the past week, and part of the present one, has been a time of curiously mixed
Continue ReadingOld Wolverton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (1890s)
A Stony Stratford Debate. Indigestion or –? “Is there such a thing as a ghost?! This was the subject of a serious debate at a largely-attended meeting of members of the Stony Stratford Literary Society.
Continue ReadingAbingdon, Oxfordshire (1879 and 1891)
A Ghost Story. The attention of the superstitious has been attracted to the phenomena which are declared ever and anon to manifest themselves in one of the Abingdon Alms houses, not indeed in “questionable shape,”
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