A terrible fatality. Motor-cycle crashes into timber carriage. Ross jury and need for rear light. The death of two youths, caused by a terrible motor-cycle crash, was the subject of an enquiry by the South
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Blaina, Blaenau Gwent (1928)
Weird noises that disturb salvationist lassies. From our own correspondent, Cardiff, Saturday. What is the mystery of the Welsh ghost with a cough? He has been troubling two women Salvationist officers, Adjutant McGuire and Lieutenant
Continue ReadingChatham, Kent (1923)
Ghostly Rappings. The inmates of the Medway Workhouse, Chatham, are being disturbed by ghostly rappings on the walls of the wards, and up to the present all efforts to lay the “spook” have failed. Westminster
Continue ReadingMiddlesborough, North Yorkshire (1925)
Mysterious knockings at a house in Londesdale street, Middlesborough, caused inquisitive crowds to gather on Wednesday night, and the police were notified. So strong were the knockings that plaster fell from the walls of the
Continue ReadingNottingham (1921)
Mischievous Spooks. Pranks in Nottingham Tinsmith’s Shop. The Clutching Hand. King Charles’ Officers’ Mess Revisited. In view of the Nottingham Castle ghost story (exclusively given in Saturday’s Evening Post) and the consequent renewed interest in
Continue ReadingOpawa, Kamienna Góra, Poland (1930)
Tapping wherever she goes. A mysterious spirit visitation, which has caused tremendous excitement in the village of Oppau, in the Landeshut district of Germany, centres round the nine-year-old daughter of a farmer named Rasche. Wherever
Continue ReadingManchester (1929)
Haunted House. Weird experience of tenants. Cats vanish in thin air. Stories of weird happenings in a Manchester house were told to a “Press and Journal” representative last night. Amazing happenings which the tenants allege
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Boy’s Magnetic Power. Mystery of Moving Chairs. Scientists and an “unruly spirit”. Special tests are being arranged at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Queensberry Place, London, to find out if little Douglas Drew (8),
Continue ReadingPontivy, Brittany, France (1922)
Shepherd Girl “Ghost.” Pranks of child of fourteen annoy whole village. For some time the inhabitants of the little Brittany village of Pontivy have been annoyed by what were locally described as ghosts. These ghosts
Continue ReadingMontreal, Canada (1923)
A singular case of poltergeist haunting came under my notice whilst at Montreal. It had occurred to a couple, the man an experienced journalist, the wife a rather nervous lady of middle age. They lived
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