… 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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Jamaica (1912)
Spectre’s Agency – or hallucination? Weird happenings attributed to the Duppy, the Jamaican ghost, or spectre, made an audience “creepy” in London yesterday. Eerie accounts of stone throwing which could not be traced to any
Continue ReadingAfonwen, Pwllheli, Gwynedd (1910)
‘Haunted’ Cottage. Rappings and wailings. Welsh villagers “scared.” The neighbourhood of Afonwen, near Pwllheli is in a state of turmoil (telegraphs a correspondent) owing to mysterious rappings and wailings stated to be heard in a
Continue ReadingWoking, Surrey (1911)
Though it is explained in regard to the manifestations of a daylight ghost at Woking, that “the facts are quite simple,” there is a good deal of apparent mystery in regard to their origin. There
Continue ReadingWandsworth, London (1911)
Exciting Fire Rescues. The Misfortunes of a Wandsworth Family. A series of misfortunes in the shape of inexplicable outbreaks of fire has befallen Messrs. G A Harvey and Sons, a firm of picture-frame dealers, on
Continue ReadingBury St Edmunds, Suffolk (1916)
A Bury Sensation. Night scene in Whiting Street. Weird noises and furniture smashing. Neighbours alarmed and puzzled. The setting in of darkness brought unusual excitement to the semi-residential Whiting Street on Wednesday evening, ghostly noises
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Morlaix. Plouneour-Menez. Une ferme hauntee. Au village de Karranborn habite la famille Croguennec. Cette famille habite une tres grosse ferme; sa fortune s’eleve a 16,000 francs de rentes. Or, depuis plusieurs mois, une veritable terreur,
Continue ReadingAsfordsby, Leicestershire (1913)
Exorcism of a ghost. Clergyman’s strange statement. A curious “ghost story” comes from the village of Ashfordby, in Leicestershire. It appears that the rectory of Ashfordby, which is inhabited by the Rev. F.A. Gage Hall,
Continue ReadingTywyn, Gwynedd (1912)
Welsh Ghost Story. The residents of Frankwell Street, Towyn, Merioneth, declare that a ghost haunts the neighbourhood nightly. During the past week, between the hours of eleven and one, stones and bricks have rained down
Continue ReadingKeith Hall, Aberdeenshire (1915)
Keith-Hall Farm Mystery. Malicious mischief or “Black Airt.” For the past five weeks a number of the residents in the quiet agricultural parish of Keith-Hall have been perturbed by mysterious happenings, which to the superstitious
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