Hollingbourne Ghost. Unseen hand that flung coal and potatoes. Bangs at night. Following the sensation caused by the announcement that a Shoreham girl, Vera Obbard, was the object of attack of some ghost or spirit
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Coventry, West Midlands (1930)
Phantom Night Visitor. Tale of Haunted House in Midlands. Strange tappings and a phantom figure stated to have been seen in the middle of the night, have terrified a family occupying an old Coventry house
Continue ReadingSrbobran, Serbia (1934)
Town of Broken Windows. Yugoslav Mystery. For many months, night after night the citizens of Srbobran, a Yugoslav town, have been mystified by the vast number of windows smashed. The police have been unable to
Continue ReadingBeijing, China (1934)
Peiping Suspicions Aroused. Brick-tossing Ghost. Peiping, Oct. 1. Following a ten-night exhibition of supernatural skill, a brick-tossing ghost has quietly ceased his work and Peiping police and detectives are again pursuing their duties peacefully. At
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Penang’s Ghost. Penang boasts a real, live ghost which walks in the dead of night, removes the glass fronts of pictures hanging on the walls, carefully places the glass on the floor and then silently
Continue ReadingGuar Perahu, Malaysia (1939)
‘Ghost’ Startles Malay Villagers. Stones and firewood thrown about house. Young bride spat at. The whole village of Guar Prahu, near Kubang Semang, Province Wellesley, is startled by reports of a house haunted by a
Continue ReadingFleet Street, London (1932)
Ghost of Black Abbot Haunts City Office. Weird Bell Ringing. Chairs thrown across room at night. The Black Abbot of Fleet-street is frightening typists. He has driven them howling from the office. He has rung
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Singapore’s Haunted House. “Poltergeist phenomena” Police officer’s story of weird happenings. House pulled down. A haunted house in Singapore which was visited by a European police officer and a party of constables is described in
Continue ReadingTaiping, Malaysia (1930)
Ghosts in Taiping. Pawang to counter priest’s curse. From our own correspondent. Taiping, April 1st. Taiping people have been exercised of late over a succession of strange happenings in an Indian household attributed to Poltergeist
Continue ReadingPort Louis, Mauritius (1937)
At 7 am on Monday, 21 September 1937, a stone fell on the roof of a bungalow in the rue Touraine, a street in Port Louis, a capital of the crowded little sub-tropical island of
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