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
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Upton, 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
Continue ReadingPenzance, Cornwall (1921)
“Ghost” Antics. A supposed invisible visitor is causing distress to a Penzance (Cornwall) family. They have already removed from one house, which they sold to escape his activities, and they now propose to move again.
Continue ReadingGlasgow (1923)
Spooks in the Cowcaddens. Presence of boy sets up tattoo. Woman declares evil spirits haunt her. Spooks are abroad in the Cowcaddens district of Glasgow, and even the holding of seances has not brought forth
Continue ReadingShanghai, China (1921)
“Ghost” That Rang Bells. “Spirit” laid by five arrests. London, Saturday. A “ghost” that rang electric bells, moved crockery, and was responsible for the theft of a bangle, and the starting of a fire was
Continue ReadingBuckpool, Buckie, Moray (1928)
Conversational “Ghost” in an Old Scots House. A popular and intelligent “ghost” has taken up its location in a house in the lower part of Buckpool, Buckie (Banff), over a century old. The ghost some
Continue ReadingMountsorrel, Leicestershire (1924)
“Ghost” taps songs to order. “Knockings” begin when girl lies down. Neighbours’ sleepless nights. From our own correspondent. Mountsorrel, To-day. A Mountsorrel schoolgirl, 13 years of age, has for two months been “haunted” by mysterious
Continue ReadingRoodepoort, South Africa (1922)
Mystery Knockings and Blue Flame. Shower of stones from nowhere. Johannesburg, Saturday. For three months mysterious happings have disturbed the home of D. Neaves, chemist’s assistant, at Roodepoort. The house stands on a five-acre plot
Continue ReadingCullompton, Devon (1925)
Spirit Rapping? Baffling mystery at Cullompton. Intense interest has been aroused at Cullompton by some mysterious knockings at the front door of Mr. J. Harris’s house at the top of Exeter-hill. The rappings have been
Continue ReadingVersailles, Ile-de-France, France (1922)
Rivals to Ghost Lively Scenes at Haunted House Paris, Sunday. The haunted house of Versailles in the Rue Baillet is a popular success. The day before yesterday 200 visitors came between ten and midnight, and
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