“Ghost” Speaks From Wall. Strange Happenings at Scots Croft. Neighbours Suspect a Trick. Inquiries into an extraordinary “ghost” story that gripped Tarves (Aberdeenshire) and district were made by a “Courier and Advertiser” representative yesterday. The
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Sunderland, Tyne and Wear (1932)
Sunderland Ghost “Interviewed” By A Spiritualist. Search for someone called “Annie” Tenants’ amazing story of mysterious noises near midnight. Like man with wooden leg. A ghost was interviewed by a spiritualist last night at No.
Continue ReadingTosta Chaolais, Lewis, Outer Hebrides (1938)
Jug Flies Round Room; Crockery Falls To Bits Scotswoman blames aurora An extraordinary occurrence is reported from the village of Tosta Chaolais, on the west coast of Lewis. In a house on the outskirts of
Continue ReadingSouth Shore, Blackpool, Lancashire (1938)
Moving Events. In this age of world-wide unrest it is, perhaps, not entirely unnatural that there should be news of violent and mysterious happenings at Blackpool, although, at first sight, these fantastic ebullitions have a
Continue ReadingBethnal Green, London (1938)
Strange Happenings in Bethnal Green. Bed Clothes Torn Off, Chairs Overturned, Cries and Tappings Expert’s Story to the “Observer”. What our reporter saw. Ghostly manifestations in a Bethnal Green house have aroused the curiosity and
Continue ReadingLeicester (1933)
Night Vigil Fails. Water Spook Still Unexplained. Girl uses it as shower bath. Walls all found to be sound. “Curiouser and curiouser” appears the mystery of the fountains of water gushing from the walls of
Continue ReadingBrampton, Cumbria (1933)
Spirit Action Theory of Ghostly Noises in Old House Crowds are gathering nightly outside an old house at Brampton, North Cumberland, to listen to mysterious thumpings which come from inside. The house, which is occupied
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Milngavie and Bearsden Herald, Friday 24th August 1934. “Ghost” Absent for Two Years.Weird Occurrences in Knightswood House.(From the “Evening Times.”) The occupants of Knightswood’s “haunted house” – a residence at the corner of Alderman Road
Continue ReadingRoose, Barrow, Cumbria (1930)
Mystery of a “Haunted” House Furniture Moves as Though it Were Alive Safes Topple Over Experts Baffled by Strange Series of Incidents Amazing incidents in a house at Roose, near Barrow-in-Furness, are puzzling experts who
Continue ReadingNon specified Midlands experience (1933)
The only real ghost I have ever met was an unusually pretty seventeen-year-old girl. I had been asked to investigate the cause of a troublesome “haunting” in a Midland village, which had defied all local
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