This is written rather like a story? Joking Ghost is Making Boy’s Life a Misery. From a New York Correspondent. A mysterious, unseen knocker has disrupted the home and school life of 11-year-old Loros Elledge.
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Malacca, Malaysia (1947)
Malacca Police Chief’s Vigil: Poltergeist Scare. From our own reporter. Malacca, Sept. 15. – What appeared to be midnight invaders at 155, Heeren Street in Malacca, finally turned out to be a poltergeist playing his
Continue ReadingKampung Kepayang, Ipoh, Malaysia (1947)
Ghost throws stones in hut. Sunday Times correspondent, Ipoh, Saturday. For the past three days a poltergeist has been throwing stones and pebbles from the attap roof of a hut in Kampong Kepayang, near Ipoh,
Continue ReadingPilling, Lancashire (1948)
Pilling poltergeist plucks the guitar. Johnny, the cook at Pilling hostel for agricultural workers, is troubled by a poltergeist which disturbs his sleep and frightens room mates. Ex-Navy man, Johnny, runs a fine galley for
Continue ReadingDinteloord, Netherlands (1947)
Mystery Fires at Farm. A series of sudden inexplicable fires in the house of a farmer at Dinteloord, Holland, has given rise to a suggestion that the house is haunted by “incendiary ghosts”. One day
Continue ReadingLangley Marish, Berkshire (1946)
“Misty” figures inquiry. Strange noises at almshouses. The Society of Psychical Research is to investigate incidents at a 300-year-old house at Seymour Almshouses, Langley, Bucks. It is occupied by Mrs Florence Buckland, her daughter, June
Continue ReadingTaunton, Somerset (c.1940s)
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
Continue ReadingHampstead, 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
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