Uncanny hauntings. Paranormal door-banging. By H.J. Channon. Four years ago I wrote a series of articles for the Herald on uncanny hauntings. One house in particular, not three miles from Taunton, interested me. I got
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Hampstead, London (1948)
Charlie the ghost takes a fancy to fish. It isn’t safe to leave things lying around in a basement flat in Adamson-road, Hampstead, London. Residents say it is haunted – by a hunchback ghost they
Continue ReadingTarcutta, NSW, Australia (1949)
“Unknown Power” Mystifies Farmer at Tarcutta. A mysterious power which is said to be hurling plates 150 to 200 yards from a stationary milking machine, has led to an appeal from Tarcutta for a research
Continue ReadingCounty Down (1940)
The affair of the County Down ghost. It had a spite against a young lady. You don’t believe in ghosts? Neither do I, yet the following mysterious happenings on a Co. Down farm require some
Continue ReadingSolesmes, Nord, France (1946)
Four police try to catch noisy ghost. London, Sat. Four members of the French police force are trying to catch a poltergeist which is disturbing farmers in the war-damaged village of Solesmes, near Lille. A
Continue ReadingSydney, Australia (1949)
Mystery knocks baffle police and neighbours. A two hour investigation by four police and several neighbours failed to explain mysterious knockings which terrified two women and three children in a Mortdale cottage last night. In
Continue ReadingBedfont, Hounslow, London (1948)
‘Headless Ghost in Pre-fab’. By Sunday Dispatch reporter. The ghost of a headless man is causing considerable alarm to people living in prefabricated bungalows in Page-road, Bedfont, Middlesex – so much so that the police
Continue ReadingHighgate Hill, London (1942)
“Haunted Mansion.” The story of “ghostly manifestations” in a 400-year-old Highgate Hill mansion, Fairseat, published in the “Journal” the other day, was read with particular interest by two Nottingham sisters who some years ago were
Continue ReadingLetter (An Leitir), County Fermanagh (1945)
Six-county police barracks “haunted.” Ghost noises are causing an extraordinary mystery to the Royal Ulster Constabulary, stationed at Letter, Co. Fermanagh, near the Donegal border. “The Impartial Reporter,” Enniskillen, records that the barracks was originally
Continue ReadingFormby, Merseyside (1947)
Haunted cafe owners are sceptical. But ex-tenants tell of noises in the night. A practical demonstration of laying a ghost would seem to have been carried out by Mr A. Houldsworth, of the Beehive Cafe,
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