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
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Bristol (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 Skull House. An account has been given to the public (Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire), of the Skull House, otherwise Timberbottom, in Turton. We went thither, and examined the skulls. One of them is much
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
Continue ReadingBrixton, London (1931)
“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
Continue ReadingDaux, 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
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