Weird Thrills In Village. Untraced footsteps – and raps and howls. The village of Little Irchester, just outside Wellingborough, is experiencing thrills that would do credit to any novelist. Mysterious footsteps in the dark hours,
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Keynsham, Somerset (1921)
Haunted House Near Keynsham. The haunted house at Hornsey has a rival in a village near Keynsham, but the spirit is more reasonable than at Keynsham, where, according to Mr Froist, the tenant, it manifests
Continue ReadingNottingham (1929)
Eerie Chords at Dead of Night. Curious happenings in house. Ghosts in the Night? Strange noises in a Nottingham house. Piano struck. Chord reminiscent of dead relative. The piano being played in the middle of
Continue ReadingBaravullin, Oban, Argyll and Bute (1921)
“Haunted House” in the Highlands. Psychic Research Students Make Investigations. Extraordinary happenings are reported as having taken place in the house of Donald MacKenzie, postman, who resides at lonely Baravulin, Ledaig, a small hamlet in
Continue ReadingFulham, London (1927)
Three met a violent poltergeist in a flat off the Fulham Road. The ghost of the “Bloody Bishop,” which is said to haunt the precincts of Fulham Palace, has come to light again. In “A
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Furniture’s Mad Antics. Dancing plates and glasses that jumped. A strange story of a haunted house in Paris is told by the “Petit Parisien.” It is a flat in the Rue de Patay, in the
Continue ReadingMaidstone, Kent (1924)
Brass Knob “Ghost.” The practical joker is about again. A “ghost” which persisted in removing the brass knobs off a bedstead has been disturbing a house in Malling Terrace, Maidstone. An elderly couple, Mr William
Continue ReadingGuyra, New South Wales, Australia (1921)
Queer manifestations near the Queensland Border. “Mediumistic” Girl. Sydney (received to-day). Weird events, which attracted a great amount of attention here, occurred at Guyra, a small place near the Queensland border. The Sydney correspondent of
Continue ReadingSalzburg, Austria (1928)
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 ReadingOxspring, 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
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