Webster City, Iowa, Dec. 5 All Webster city, Iowa, is absorbed in a haunted house mystery. The house is No. 710 Boone street and is occupied by Mr and Mrs Jesse Black, their two children
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County Donegal (1919)
[Clady village is on the border with County Donegal but is in County Tyrone. The Clady river is in County Donegal and reaches the sea near Bunbeg] Donegal Ghost Story. Mystery of locked room. A
Continue ReadingRotherhithe, London (1910s)
Grim secret of a “haunted house.” Infant’s body found in chimney. The grim secret of a “haunted house” has been revealed at Rotherhithe. For 12 years No. 678 Rotherhithe Street has been standing empty. Locally
Continue ReadingCraig Island, Trinidad and Tobago (1911)
Stone throwing diablesse at Craig Island. Weird happenings at midnight. Extraordinary experiences of a party. Here is a queer story from Craig Island and it is rare that one is told such stories in Trinidad,
Continue ReadingChelsea, London (1913)
Chelsea’s Ghost. Three people see spectre that has banged on doors for years. Steps on stairs. Chelsea is still the haunt of at least one alarming ghost. This apparition has lately been terrifying the occupants
Continue ReadingParis, France (1913)
Paris Gossip. Comedy of a ‘haunted’ house. From our correspondent. Paris, Thursday. There is perhaps a moral for your Society for Psychical Research in the following story. For some time the inhabitants of a house
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1910)
Noisy “Ghost” in Bow-st. Strange knockings and moving lights. Hand through a man-hole. The residents at a shop and house in Bow-st. are becoming very much excited and distressed by what they believe to be
Continue ReadingNew Mills, Derbyshire (1914)
Derbyshire Ghosts. More Stories of Restless Spirits. Notwithstanding the explanation (published yesterday) of the noises that have led one of the two workmen at the Ollersett coal pit, New Mills, to imagine they had seen
Continue ReadingCardiff (1917)
Uncanny experiences at Cardiff. Now that the Kidwelly “ghost” seems to have gone to his rest Cardiff comes along with one equally lively visitant. For reasons that are quite sound names and addresses may not
Continue ReadingInverin (Indreabhán), County Galway (1916)
“The Ghost of Inverin.” If the stories about the terrible persecution of poor Mr Costello and his family, of Bawnrough, Inverin, are true we certainly pity that unhappy family. Needless to say, the snaowball has
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