Ellore has produced a phenomenon which, on its occurrence in a house in Hydeville, New York State, 92 years ago, led to the formation of scientific societies in the United States and Great Britain for
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North Shields, Tyne and Wear (1945)
Girl says ghost hand moved pan. A sixteen-year-old North Shields girl claims that at the week-end she saw a pan of water lifted as if by an invisible hand from a stove to a bench.
Continue ReadingAchindarroch, Highland (1943)
The Haunted Farm-house. Written and illustrated by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. Few with any appreciable knowledge of Scotland have not heard of Glen Duror, that steep and comparatively short valley running inland from the roadside at
Continue ReadingBlackheath, London (1948)
Mystery of the Milk Bottle That Hopped. “Evening News” Reporter. Mysterious footsteps in the night, strange rappings on the windows, doors which slowly open and shut, and lights which for no apparent reason are switched
Continue ReadingAshton Vale, Bristol (1947)
The strange case of the startled prefab. dwellers. Haunted granges and enchanted cottages are out of fashion, or maybe the housing shortage has hit the astral world. Now “things that go bump in the night”
Continue ReadingMalvern, Worcestershire (1942)
A Malvern Poltergeist. Towards the end of January 1942, while living in Oxford, I was invited by the Secretary of the S.P.R. to investigate an alleged poltergeist case at Malvern. I reached Malvern the same
Continue ReadingAthy, County Kildare (1944)
A Haunted House. The following startling story, contained in a letter to Athy Urban Council recently we cull from the “Leinster Leader.” – “I have the spirit of the Devil in my new cottage, and
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Minister Tells Parapsychologists Noisy ‘Ghost’ Plagued Family. For about five months, Washington had a poltergeist right in its own backyard. It was on January 18, 1949, that “Mr and Mrs John Doe,” their 13-year-old son
Continue ReadingCaterham, Surrey (1948)
Guardman’s Ghost at Caterham. London, July 7. There is a ghost among guardsmen at the Caterham Depot, Surrey – the training centre for Britain’s crack Brigade of Guards. Nobody has seen it, but the soldiers
Continue ReadingKuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1947)
Ghost Baffles Police In K.L. House. From our staff correspondent, Kuala Lumpur, May 10. Five Englishwomen, working in Government offices in Kuala Lumpur, and living together in an old Chinese house in the suburbs, have
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