Nationalised ‘poltergeists’. Ornaments, fire-irons and pans at Castle Dene, Prudhoe, have been hurled across rooms of houses to the accompaniment of loud thuds but without apparent cause. Following complaints investigations were made by council officials
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Leicester (1946)
Misty figure, moans and footsteps in Leicester “haunted house.” Standing in “Anne Boleyn’s Room” in her house at Southfields drive, Leicester, Mrs R.A. Smith described to the Evening Mail today the strange night-time occurrences there
Continue ReadingMorwenstow, Cornwall (1948)
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
Continue ReadingKilburn, 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)
Trimsaran Mystery. “Ghost” in lone farm. “Spirit” eludes police. The activities of the “poltergeist” of lonely Glasbury Farm, Glyn Abbey, have provided the people of Trimsaran and other neighbouring villages with a seasonable topic of
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
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