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
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Sydney, 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)
Can’t arrest a ghost. Ghostly footsteps creak through the corridors of the lonely police station at Letter, County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland. Sergeant McNeill and his three constables are living through a Christmas ghost story which
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,
Continue ReadingWoodmansterne, Surrey (1948)
I did not believe in ghosts until – Herald Reporter, Woodmansterne, Surrey, Tuesday. Yesterday I did not believe in ghosts, but I heard these things during last night in the stables of Fairlawns, an old
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Vicar fed up with ghosts. News Chronicle Reporter. The vicar of Ham, the Thames-side village near Richmond, Rev. Ernest Beard, B.A. is fed up with poltergeists, he told me yesterday. He was uncertain which was
Continue ReadingLeicester (1946)
Weird happenings at Leicester vicarage. Nocturnal incidents in St Margaret’s Vicarage, Church-gate, Leicester, lead the Vicar and his wife to suggest that their home is haunted. They certainly accept the theory that “a mischief-making poltergeist”
Continue ReadingNew Delhi, India (1949)
Cloth-burning Ghost. Experts fail stop mysterious phenomenon. New Delhi (by airmail), (Reuter). A small house on the outskirts of New Delhi appears to be haunted by a “cloth burning ghost”. Any piece of cloth inside
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