Eerie noises startle four families. Mysterious sounds in new houses. Loughboro’ ‘ghost’. Ghostly sounds at night have alarmed four families at Loughborough; they have been scared so much that they have tried, without success, to
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Coventry, West Midlands (1926)
Mysterious stone-throwing. Mrs Hannah Mawson, 127 Windmill Road, Foleshill, pleaded “not Guilty” through Mr S.F. Snape, to comitting 10s damage to a roof at Foleshill, the property of William George Wagstaff, 278, Grange Road, Foleshill.
Continue ReadingBloomsbury, London (1923)
‘Haunted bookshelf.’ Mystery in London house Ghost expert is called in. A bookshelf torn bodily from the wall by an unseen hand lies on the floor of a bedroom in a Bloomsbury boarding house, and
Continue ReadingFenny Compton, Warwickshire (1924)
“Ghost” juggles with fire-irons Sleepless nights for Fenny Compton cottagers From a Gazette correspondent, Leamington, Monday. The Fenny Compton “ghost” has assumed a new role of activity. Not content with its ramblings on the hills,
Continue ReadingChichester, West Sussex (1928)
The Haunted Close. Strange manifestations in Chichester Priest-Vicar’s House. Former Dean re-visits Earth? “Observer” Special. One of the four beautiful old houses in the Vicars Close, Chichester, possesses the unusual but intriguing reputation of being
Continue ReadingNorroy-le-Veneur, Grand Est, France (1929)
Ghosts milk cows. Terror-stricken villages. The village of Norroy-le-Veneur, between Nancy and Metz, is in a state of terror (says a Central News Paris telegram). Ghosts are abroad which milk cows during the night, lock
Continue ReadingParay-le-Monial, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (1927)
Beds that walk. Remarkable occurrences in “haunted” house. Paris, Tuesday. Beds that walk about the house, vases that break themselves against the wall, keys that disappear and reappear, apples and bread that leap off their
Continue ReadingBedworth, Warwickshire (1929)
The Haunted House Strange happenings in a Warwickshire parish. (From a correspondent). Unaccountable knockings and noises, the appearance of an apparition, and at frequently recurring intervals an atmosphere of the supernatural, is the experience, and
Continue ReadingPemba Island, Zanzibar, Tanzania (1920s)
Evil Spirits. Zanzibar a land of spooks. A bishop’s stories. A Bishop, whose missionary function includes the exorcising of evil spirits from natives is now in London, says the “Daily Mail.” He is the Lord
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Pretoria. Strange story from Pretoria. Cape Town, October 13. Remarkable ghost stories are reported from a farmer living ten miles from Pretoria. Stones have been flung into the house apparently through the walls, while a
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