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,”
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Rheidol 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.
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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 ReadingLymm, Cheshire (1926)
Weird Cheshire “Ghost” Mystery. Footsteps, taps and vivid lights. Mysterious footsteps along corridors, doors opening and shutting of their own accord, shakings of beds, gleamings of peculiar lights… these are some of the weird things
Continue ReadingUpton, Cambridgeshire (1920)
Spectre in Cottage? Uncanny Incidents in the night. The village curate called in. A remarkable story of ghostly visitations at a cottage comes from Upton, a village of less than 100 inhabitants, seven miles from
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