“Ghost” at a club. Members to engage psychic investigator. Strange things are said to be happening at the Moulin Rouge, a Brixton club. A psychic investigator is to be asked to spend a night in
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Daux, Haute-Garonne, France (1932)
Shy of the microphone? Ghosts failed to operate on broadcast night. An attempt has just been made to broadcast the strange noises which ghosts are said to have been making for some time past at
Continue ReadingHolton-le-Clay, Lincolnshire (1938)
Terror-Stricken Women at North Lincs. Village Bottles and stones thrown at Holton-le-Clay. “Ghost” evades search parties. Weird happenings at Holton-le-Clay have so frightened women and girls in the village that they have been too nervous
Continue ReadingHomebush, New South Wales (1930)
Shades of the Guyra Ghost. Homebush police are investigating the most mysterious crime in their district for the year – ghostly stone-throwing which continues each night from 7 o’clock to midnight. One house in Bridge
Continue ReadingCheadle, Manchester (1933)
Ghost with a stoop. Family of five terrorised. Hasty retreat. Mistaken for a burglar! A family of five have been driven from their home at Cheadle, near Manchester, by the strange behaviour of a ghost,
Continue ReadingLadywood, Birmingham (1938)
“Despatch” reporter goes on a Birmingham ghost hunt. Brendan Clinch, Richard Walsh and John Forte pictured in the “haunted” bedroom. On the right is the chair said to have been hurled across the room. By
Continue ReadingSunderland (1935)
Mystery Night Marauder. House windows smashed at Millfield. Residents in Enderby Road, Millfield, are undergoing a stone-throwing ordeal which started on Monday night and continued last night. Windows of three houses were broken on Monday
Continue ReadingSpaddagh, Ballyhaunis, County Mayo (1937)
Dancing Furniture Weird happenings in the west (From our own correspondent). It isn’t often that one hears in these days of a haunted house. When such an event happens, especially in Connacht, where the people
Continue ReadingLevenshulme, Manchester (1933)
Home wrecked by “ghost” Society to hold inquiry. The story of a Manchester man who was almost ruined by a ghost, which wrecked his home, terrified the occupants, and caused material damage amounting to £200
Continue ReadingBelfast (1932)
A Belfast “Ghost” Week-end comedy of stalking spirit Posse of powerless police (By a special correspondent). “There is a ghost in a house in Trinity Street, off Clifton Street. The police are there now, keeping
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