Odd happenings in ancient Cornish house. Mystery of old cedar chest. Queer occurrences in an old Cornish manor house have led to efforts to trace the history of a carved cedarwood chest thought to be
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Kilburn, London (1949)
Shoes that walk alone. A shop of odd fear. In a very ordinary street in Kilburn, London, is a shoemaker’s shop where shoes walk – without feet in them. That’s not the only strange thing
Continue ReadingSandbank, Argyll (1944)
A House that was “Haunted”. Another ‘strange’ story comes from Sandbank. By a “Daily Record” staff reporter. Sandbank, Monday. Sitting in her little, old-fashioned and one-time “haunted house” here this afternoon, 84-year-old Mr Annie Chalmers
Continue ReadingByker, Newcastle (1947)
Mystery rappings in flat still unsolved. A Newcastle police officer who has sat in a downstairs flat in Clydesddale Road, Byker, specially to listen to rappings and knockings from its walls, is as mystified what
Continue ReadingNewcastle on Tyne (1945)
Ladykirk-road Ghost Laid. Everybody said they were haunted – those two houses in Ladykirk-road, Newcastle on Tyne, whose furniture moved mysteriously, doors jammed, and walls shivered. One morning Mrs Hogg, who lived in one of
Continue ReadingBruck an der Mur, Austria (1949)
Poltergeist at work in Austrian town. Things are really jumping in the little Austrian town of Brucks, according to Vienna Press reports. The townspeople blame it all on 10-year-old Caroline Chalupka and her out-of-this-world powers.
Continue ReadingGlyn Abbey, Carmarthenshire (1946)
The “ghost” took a day off when two policemen moved in. A “spirit” that moved china and pictures in a farmhouse and threw stones down the chimney, took a night off when two policemen moved
Continue ReadingRichardton, North Dakota, USA (1944)
Haunted Coal. Something very queer seems to have been happening in the Wild Plum school-house, 20 miles from the town of Richardton, North Dakota. There was a bucket of coal near the stove. Before the
Continue ReadingCentral London (1901)
A City of London Poltergeist. The following curious narrative giving an account of disturbances occurring in 1901 upon certain business premises in the heart of the city of London seems worthy of permanent record. The
Continue ReadingNottinghamshire (1942)
Queer Happenings at a Country House. Of seasonable interest is the story, related at a festive gathering this week, and vouched for by the teller, of recent weird happenings at a country house near Nottingham.
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