Unseen footsteps, bangings, and rattlings.Mysterious happenings at a Tyrone farm-house. Strange happenings are reported to have taken place recently at a farm house at Altamullen, some miles from Killeter, where the occupants, a highly respectable
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Hornsey, London (1921)
Coals Weird Tricks. Mystified London Family. “Haunted coal” has been causing alarm to Mr and Mrs I S Frost and their family at Ferrestone-road, Hornsey, London, by producing a series of explosions and leaping from
Continue ReadingBattersea, London (1928)
The Battersea “Ghost.” House bombarded by crowd. Following a report that it was haunted, a house in Eland-road, Battersea, was surrounded by a large crowd, including hundreds of school children, yesterday, and missiles were thrown,
Continue ReadingKeighley, West Yorkshire (1924)
The Haunted Millgirl. By J. Hewat McKenzie. In the beginning of May of this year Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought to my notice a letter which had reached him from the manager of a woollen
Continue ReadingThatto Heath, Lancashire (1923)
Unexplained Noises. Medium called in to solve house mystery. Amazing incidents, said to have been proved to be beyond the power of practical jokers, are reported from a house in Parliament Street, Thatto Heath, near
Continue ReadingGorefield, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (1923)
The phantom Samson of Goresfield. Flying washstand. Family beaten at a game of draughts. A correspondent wires: – The Cambridgeshire village of Gorefield, a few miles from Wisbech, is disturbed by the activities of a
Continue ReadingYarmouth, Norfolk (1923)
Another Ghost? Mysterious Missiles in a Yarmouth Row. Exciting Incidents. Something akin to the scenes witnessed some time ago, when a report got abroad that ghosts had been seen in Yarmouth Churchyard, have disturbed Middlegate
Continue ReadingAntigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada (1922)
Mysterious Fires. The American Institute of Scientific Research has been requested by the Editor of the “Halifax (Nova Scotia) Herald” to investigate a remarkable series of incidents which, on the testimony of responsible persons, have
Continue ReadingPentwynmawr, Newport (1926)
Jumping Bottles. Strange happenings in a village. Strange happenings are reported from the Three Horse Shoes, Pentwynmawr, a village near Newport (Mon.). An enamel bowl, it is said, flew from a table and fell into
Continue ReadingThreapwood, Cheshire (1927)
Weird Happenings in a Cottage. Family afraid to stay there at night. Mysterious happenings at an old cottage, known as The Mount, occupied by a smallholder, Mr Anthony Kynaston, aged 76, and his two daughters,
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