Hot cinders from —? A Manselton Spook. Mysterious happenings in a house. A very mysterious affair, which has during the past few days attracted considerable numbers of people to the neighbourhood of Manselton, is the
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Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia (1919)
A ghost at Broken Hill. Bed dancing in mid air. Strange knockings heard. Questions answered by taps. Tenant tells the story. (From The Barrier Miner.) As reported in the Last Edition of The Miner on
Continue ReadingWisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire (1912)
“Ghost” at Tydd. Mysterious rappings on cottage door. This is an age rather too sceptical to accept stories of ghosts, even when the authentication seems to be most reliable, so the happenings at a cottage
Continue ReadingSaint-Michel-de-Maurienne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (1912)
A Haunted House. Mysterious phenomena near Paris. (From our own correspondent). Paris, Feb. 11. I have already mentioned at different times the growing interest shown in spiritism and psychic phenomena. Today the growing number of
Continue ReadingDrinkstone, Suffolk (1912)
Ghost Scare At Drinkstone. Excitement amongst the villagers. “Mysterious” knockings. The “Spirit” laid. The peaceful parish of Drinkstone, with its picturesque surroundings, has during the last week or two been the scene of much consternation
Continue ReadingEbbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent (1913)
Eerie Visitor. An old-fashioned, but prosaic-looking, house in Victoria-road, Ebbw Vale, is the centre of considerable excitement in the town just at present by reason of talk of mysterious knockings and ghostly visitations. Mrs Williams,
Continue ReadingBalham, London (1911)
Alleged haunted house in Cathles Road. Amusing letters at Wandsworth County Court. Considerable merriment was caused at the Wandsworth County Court on Monday, during the hearing by his Honour Judge Harlington of a claim brought
Continue ReadingStrabane, County Tyrone (1913)
The Strabane “Ghost.” “Apparition” at Railway Station. What three engine-cleaners saw. Stories told to our representative. There has not been a period in the world’s history when belief in ghosts did not exist, and today
Continue ReadingCarisbrook, Jamaica (1917)
In 1917, at Carisbrook, in Jamaica, a young woman named Agnes Brooke was the victim. Large stones fell on her from the kitchen ceiling, just as oil fell at the rectory, and sudden fires borke
Continue ReadingPort Elizabeth (Gqeberha), South Africa (1916)
… Again, at Port Elizabeth, in South Africa, in 1916, the victim was another girl. Her food is reported to have caught fire when she attempted to eat it, and the blankets on her bed
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