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,
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Ladywood, 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
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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
Continue ReadingDublin (1930s and many decades)
The strange goings on at number 7. By Des Ekin. They called it “the most haunted house in Dublin.” And until it was demolished back in 1963, the strange old quayside house at No. 7
Continue ReadingMontfort-sur-Meu, Brittany (1938)
Haunted house mystery. An expert in radiology has been asked by the French police to help them try to clear up a baffling “haunted house” mystery in the town of Montfort-sur-Meu, near Rennes. A short
Continue ReadingGyula, Hungary (1930)
Bombarded in haunted house. The Hungarian township of Bekesgyula has a haunted house (its street number is 13) where for some days past there have been mysterious goings on. The house is under police guard,
Continue ReadingCoverack, Cornwall (1939)
200-year-old house haunted. The 200-year-old coastguard station at Coverack (Cornwall), now converted into a house, is haunted. Mrs G. Maule, who lives there, thinks so, anyhow, and blames it on the Cornish pixies. Doors make
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