Salzburg and the Housing Problem. Even a ghost has taken a hand in Salzburg’s housing problem. In a block of flats, where the owner of a house wants a certain family to leave it, between
Continue ReadingCategory: 1920s
Oxspring, South Yorkshire (1926)
Uproarious ghost. Bangs, crashes and stealthy steps. Dog thrown down the stairs. Bed seized and shaken. Oxspring, near Penistone, a village with few inhabitants, has a weird phenomenon troubling it. Some would have it that
Continue ReadingOshawa, Ontario, Canada (1927)
Bell-ringing Spirit. Dishes fly, clothes are burned. Lamps shatter in daylight. A house at Oshawa, Ontario, has been the scene of mysterious and terrifying happenings, for which the only plausible explanation is that a “poltergeist,”
Continue ReadingRheidol Valley, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion (1925)
Haunted Cottage at Devil’s Bridge. Occupiers Scared. There have been strange happenings in a lonely cottage situate in the Rheidol Valley, midway between Aberystwyth and Devil’s Bridge. In this sparsely populated hill country of Cardiganshire
Continue ReadingCrumlin, Caerphilly (1925)
Troubled by Spirits. Crumlin wife’s story of ghosts. Ghostly tappings and scratchings in the stilly night, caperings indulged in by crockeryware, and mysterious writings on envelopes – these are some of the manifestations which have
Continue ReadingRuskington, Sleaford, Lincolnshire (1928)
Ruskington. Spooks and Ghosts. Much excitement has been caused in the village, and many young persons have had their nerves unstrung, by reports of mysterious knockings to be heard in a house in High Street.
Continue ReadingPune, India (1929)
Boy with an unruly spirit. His food and toys snatched by “ghost.” London doctors to investigate. The amazing case of Damodar Ketkar, a ten-year-old Indian boy, apparently possessed of an unruly spirit, is shortly to
Continue ReadingBeaufort (Cendl), Blaenau Gwent (1924)
“Haunted” House. Uncanny story from Beaufort. Mysterious raps and falling pictures. Extraordinary stories are related of mysterious happenings said to have been taking place recently in a house at Beaufort. The scene is a workman’s
Continue ReadingMaryport, Cumbria (1926)
Haunted House Scare Puzzling Phenomena in Maryport House. A rumour that a house in Grasslot, Maryport, is haunted is causing the district to seethe with excitement. During the week-end the police dispersed large crowds assembled
Continue ReadingElaghbeg, Bridgend, Co. Donegal, Ireland (1926)
Haunted House. Weird Happenings in Ireland. From our own correspondent. Belfast, Thursday. Mysterious noises at midnight in a house at Bridge End, Co. Donegal, have created alarm in the district. The house is said to
Continue Reading