Police Hunt Ghost Stone-throwing at night From our own correspondent, Avignon, Sunday. Thirty men armed with rifles are helping the police to scour the countryside round the village of St. Victor for a stone-throwing ghost.
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Lyon, France (1936)
Flying Coal and Iron. Police investigate at “Haunted House.” Despite police surveillance of a “haunted” house in Lyons, where strange happenings have been reported recently, the curious manifestations continue. No one – material or immaterial
Continue ReadingLahore, Punjab, Pakistan (1930)
Haunted House Mystery. Locked Doors Which Opened Themselves. (“Leicester Mail” Correspondent.) Lahore (received To-day). Ghosts are usually associated with old manors or dilapidated houses; it is rare that they visit newly-constructed dwellings. Such a problem,
Continue ReadingThornton Heath, London (1938)
Terror Night In Home Wrecked By Ghost. Two Sunday Pictorial representatives, Victor Thompson and Lionel Crane, yesterday spent the most amazing day in their lives. In a neat little house at Thornton Heath they saw
Continue ReadingKolkata, India (1930)
A Haunted Family. ‘Lives made miserable for years.’ Child thrown down well and a baby on a roof. Calcutta, Thursday. A letter of considerable interest to spiritualists appears this morning in a Calcutta newspaper. The
Continue ReadingSouth Reston, Lincolnshire (1934)
Monkey Tricks at a Hall. Unwelcome Intruder at South Reston. South Reston Hall, between Louth and Alford, has had an unwelcome visitor during the last few days. A monkey, believed to have escaped from an
Continue ReadingValence-en-Brie, Iles-de-France, France (1896 and 1933)
Another French Ghost Story. Just as many Parisians are packing their boxes for a stay on the skirts of the health-giving forest of Fontainebleur the news came that Beelzebub, or a ghost of diabolical tendencies,
Continue ReadingNewbuildings, County Derry (1932)
Strange Happenings Near Derry. Mysterious noises at Newbuildings. A house with a “spell”. Priest, police and neighbours called in. But still weird knockings go on. Mysterious and weird noises have occurred in the little whitewashed
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Co. Derry Farmhouse “Visitation” Tales of Queer Events Arouse Curiosity From Coleraine comes a report of “strange happenings” in a farmer’s house near Articlave, a village between Coleraine and Castlerock. Our Coleraine correspondent writes:- “These
Continue ReadingBlackpool, Lancashire (1938)
Eerie Mystery at Blackpool. Police watch things jump. Blackpool police were called yesterday to an outfitter’s shop in Birley Street to investigate mysterious happenings which have been going on there for two days. A manager
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