Bolton Window Smashing Mystery. Renewed Scenes To-day. Householders and Police Baffled. Alarm and Notes of Humour. The Vernon-st. district is seething in excitement and much alarm. A startling affair, which has so far all the
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West London (1907)
The spook slap. The house of the dancing furniture. Some weird experiences of a doctor in good practice in the West End of London are related by Mr Inkster Gilbertson in the current number of
Continue ReadingCopley, West Yorkshire (1907)
Window-Smashing Mystery. Police and public puzzled at Copley. Residents at Copley, a suburb of Halifax, are much perplexed over a mysterious smashing of windows. Since Christmas, almost daily, and in the daylight as well as
Continue ReadingHowden-le-Wear, Crook, County Durham (1908)
Haunted Village. The devil at work in a crockery shop. During the past week the Durham mining village of Howden-le-Wear, near Bishop Auckland, has been reduced to a state of positive fear by a series
Continue ReadingGuernsey, Channel Islands (1903)
Strange experience in a Guernsey house. A curious story of ghostly doings comes from Guernsey, where the premises of a local photographer are believed to be the haunt of spirits. The occurrences are reported to
Continue ReadingJohnstown, Navan, County Meath, Ireland (1909)
Priest’s House ‘Haunted’. An extraordinary story. Many strange rumours were afloat in Navan and district during the past fortnight as regards some extraordinary midnight happenings which were alleged to have taken place in the Parochial
Continue ReadingFritton, Norfolk (1901)
New Century Ghost Story. An old hall, situated not far from that picturesque place, Fritton Lake, has for some time past been believed by its residents to be haunted. This same hall was the scene
Continue ReadingCherbourg-Octeville, Normandy, France (1907)
Spiritual Guerillas. A most lamentable comedy of spiritual guerilla war is waging its mysterious course at Cherbourg, where, says the “Newcastle Chronicle” correspondent, the ghosts are wreaking upon the procurator of the Republic the wrongs
Continue ReadingLamberhurst, Kent (1906)
The “Daily Mail” Investigates The Lamberhurst “Ghost.” We quote the following from Monday’s “Daily Mail”:- Strange, unaccountable things are befalling in the neighbourhood of Lamberhurst, Kent. The villagers, who in the midst of their laughter
Continue ReadingBroadstairs, Kent (1908)
Broadstairs Ghost Story. A circumstantial story of mysterious midnight sounds and happenings in a house in the centre of Broadstairs has aroused intense curiosity among residents there, according to the special correspondent of the “Daily
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