Beach bungalows bombarded. Night search with torches. Bullet on bed. Mysterious incidents at Pagham Beach are being investigated by the Bognor Regis police. During the weekend residents of Pagham Beach, about two miles from Bognor,
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Boscomoor, Penkridge, Staffordshire (1934)
Phantom figures in the night. Weird happenings in a derelict farmhouse. “Sunday Mercury” special. Finding myself within a few miles of the little hamlet of Boscamoor, near Penkridge, (writes a correspondent) – I decided to
Continue ReadingNailcote House, Coventry, West Midlands (1938)
Probing the secrets of Old Nailcote House. Where queer things happen There was once a murder here! Is this Elizabethan house haunted? Standing alone, ivy-clad and mysterious, behind a barrier of trees which almost obscure
Continue ReadingKettering, Northamptonshire (1930)
A Kettering Ghost Story. Spook in a modern council house? It has been a long time since Kettering furnished a ghost story, but something with spook-like tendencies has appeared lately. The eerie visitor has not
Continue ReadingHarting Combe, West Sussex (1933)
A phantom’s last gallop. Ornaments smashed, furniture moved – then silence! The archaeological explanation. By our Petersfield correspondent. A cottage with a reputation. Learned archaeologists who visited an old cottage down in Harting Coombe, near
Continue ReadingBristol (1937)
A pair of pliers that walked. “Goings on ” in haunted office. Ringing bell. Sunday Mercury Special. Psychic investigators have failed to solve the mystery of mysterious happenings in a Bristol office, but they are
Continue ReadingTimberbottom, Bradshaw, Manchester (1920s and 1930s)
The Inseparable Skulls. A Haunted House Story. (From our Correspondent). Bolton, Tuesday. An extraordinary story has been revived here concerning two ancient skulls. For generations, it is said, these remains have been preserved together, and
Continue ReadingEpworth, Lincolnshire (1938)
Epworth Ghost Walks Again. Mysterious noises cause alarm. Belton Road, one of the main thoroughfares in Epworth, seems to be the haunt of a ghost. Years ago, “Rowan House,” standing in its own grounds, and
Continue ReadingZaragoza, Spain (1934)
A polite Spanish ghost. Talks down the chimney. From our own correspondent. Madrid, Nov. 23. A friendly ghost which speaks down the chimney of an economical cooker is a phenomenon sufficiently rare to cause some
Continue ReadingCanning Town, London (1933)
“Haunted House.” Family mystified by knockings. For five weeks members of an East London family, together with some of their neighbours, have been unable to sleep at night for what they describe as loud knockings
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