Thumps in the night. “Ghost-seekers” who have failed. Three Chiswick gentlemen have this week been endeavouring to elucidate the mystery of a “haunted house” at Northolt, Greenford, and have failed. The house is an old
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Midgley, West Yorkshire (1909)
I imagine this could be ‘The Greaves’. Midgley Mystery. Curious visitation at ancient homestead. Unaccountable rappings. The superstitious and those believing in the uncanny who reside in Midgley have had a great topic for their
Continue ReadingCape Town, South Africa (1904)
Cape Town “Ghosts”. Knives, crockery, glass and furniture thrown about. Cape Town has been suffering from a ghostly presence which has thrown knives, crockery, glass and stones through the air, banged furniture about, and knocked
Continue ReadingMaidenhead, Berkshire (1906)
The inhabitants of a village not half a dozen miles from Maidenhead are in a state of alarm at the mysterious doings of what is declared by them to be a ghostly visitor to a
Continue ReadingMauritius (before 1904)
“The Work of a Sorcerer” “Alacisterm” writes to the Bombay Gazette:- “In reference to the correspondent of the Madras Mail regarding the mysterious shower of stones at Arcot and elsewhere, I beg to be allowed
Continue ReadingBrunswick, Melbourne, Australia (1908)
Haunted house. Mysterious noises. Policemen puzzled. Melbourne, This Day. Extraordinary rappings, concussions and explosions have been occurring ina house at Brunswick for the past three weeks, and have been puzzling all the neighbourhood. The police
Continue ReadingColombo, Sri Lanka (1908)
Comedy of a ghost. Family terrorised by bottle-throwing spook. Baby lost and recovered. Eye-witnesses story of events in a haunted house. The story of what may be fittingly styled a ghost comedy comes from sunny
Continue ReadingAubigny la Ronce, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (1904)
Troublesome ghosts. There is now reported to be a haunted house at Aubigny la Ronce, near Dijon. It is occupied by the Gerard family, who are kept awake regularly every night by most obstreperous ghosts,
Continue ReadingPontypool, Monmouthshire (1905)
There is no mistake about the latest spook. It is the genuine article, if ever there was one, and the setting, moreover, could not be more appropriate. An old-fashioned, creeper-covered inn, of great antiquity,
Continue ReadingSandhurst, Berkshire (1902)
The Sandhurst Fires. Reported drastic measures. It was reported at Camberley last evening that the War Office have taken a drastic step in reference to the alleged recent incendiary fires at the Royal Military College,
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