Profane Spooks! Extraordinary Pranks. Mysterious manifestations. Particulars of a series of extraordinary and mysterious manifestations which have set the inhabitants of Clonmel all agog for some time past are sent us by our correspondent in
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Boroughbridge, West Yorkshire (1909)
A Girl Medium Mysterious Rappings and Noises A Boroughbridge Spiritualistic Sensation The residents in the old market town of Boroughbridge are at the present moment greatly perturbed by spiritualistic visitations, which have been in evidence
Continue ReadingLidget Hill, Oakworth, West Yorkshire (1906)
A Scar Top “Ghost”. Old man terrorised by mysterious noises. A ghost story emanates from the district of Scar Top, in the Oakworth Parish, a lonely country place some four miles beyond Keighley, on the
Continue ReadingShotton Colliery, County Durham (1902)
A real ghost story. Strange tale from a Durham pit village. A story of strange happenings, mysterious and inexplicable and fitting subject for the attention of the Psychical Research Society, comes from a Durham colliery
Continue ReadingBarrow-in Furness, Cumbria (1907)
Spooks at Barrow. Weird noises and vanishing bedclothes. Newly-married couple’s experiences. The supposed discovery of a haunted house has created considerable excitement at Barrow. The rumour has arisen in connection with a certain house in
Continue ReadingAskerswell, Dorset (1901)
Askerswell. A local ghost scare. Remarkable Occurrences. The little village of Askerswell is just now in a very perturbed state consequent upon some strange rumours of the doings of a supposed ghostly visitor at the
Continue ReadingKearsley, Farnworth, Lancashire (1906)
A Lancashire Ghost. An extraordinary story comes from Kearsley, near Farnworth, Lancs, the scene being laid in a house in Primrose-street, inhabited by a collier named William Jarvis, his wife, and family. One of the
Continue ReadingMullaghmena, Omagh, County Tyrone (1906)
More Ulster Ghosts. Haunted Farm House. Mysterious Fusilades of Stones. The Police Baffled. (Special Telegram) Belfast, Friday. An extraordinary affair is reported from Mullaghmena, a country district, about two miles from Omagh, Co. Tyrone. It
Continue ReadingAberbargoed, Caerphilly, South Wales (1907)
Aberbargoed “Ghost”. At a house in Aberbargoed, in the Rhymney Valley, weird tappings and strange sounds, usually associated with perturbed spirits, are reported to have been heard since Saturday night, and have caused a young
Continue ReadingCymmer / Cymer, Neath Port Talbot, South Wales (1907)
Haunted Cymmer House. Furniture on the move: Crockery mysteries. Strange happenings are reported in a workman’s dwelling at Gelli Cottages, near Cymmer, Maesteg. The tenant, a respectable working man, and his wife, have repeatedly heard
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