Ghost comes to basement to type. Every night before he locks up his typewriter shop off Baker Street, Marylebone, Mr R. Leftwich goes downstairs to a darkened cellar and places a clean piece of paper
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Louisville, Kentucky, USA (1952)
Objects “Flying Through Air.” Kentucky “ghost” report. Louisville, Kentucky, Jan. 3. (A.A.P.) Police and neighbours have been trying since Sunday to lay a “ghost” in the home of Mr and Mrs Henry Thacker, in Louisville.
Continue ReadingHounslow, London (1956)
£1 note thief is a spook. The thieving poltergeist has overdone it. He has taken £1 too many from the Hankins of Hounslow. For four years 28-year-old Clifford Hankin and his wife have been missing
Continue ReadingRugby, Warwickshire (1950)
Thief played tricks – or was it a revived ghost? Midland houses robbed, eggs beaten, suits put in water. Mercury Staff Reporter. Last night householders in Abbey Street, Rugby, were still trying to solve a
Continue ReadingTulsa, Oklahoma, USA (1957)
Family packs up and quits ‘haunted Tulsa, Okla. Mr and Mrs C.V. Wilkinson and their 12-year-old daughter packed their belongings yesterday and moved out of the house they claim is ‘haunted’ by an electrical phenomenon.
Continue ReadingPounsley, East Sussex (1952)
Ghost blamed for fires in house. Evil spirit is exorcised. All is quiet now at lonely Pounsley Lodge, near Hadlow Down, Sussex, since a priest recently blessed every room to exorcise a fire-raising poltergeist. And
Continue ReadingNorway (1952)
Not a ghost of a chance. Mail London Office. Ghosts cannot be used as an excuse for non-payment of income tax, the Governor of Troms (Norway) ruled. He refused to reduce the tax of a
Continue ReadingPenang, Malaysia (1956)
The Malayan ghosts. Other ghost stories with an unusual twist come from Malaya. A ghost which flipped clods of earth at a man and his wife was trying to lead searchers to the body of
Continue ReadingHitchin, Hertfordshire (1951)
Poltergeists? It’s all over now, but it was hair-raising at the time. Mischievous spirits at work at Hitchin Urban District Council’s rating office in Brand Street! Stones, pieces of coke, a key, belt buckle and
Continue ReadingKidderminster, Worcestershire (1959)
Ghost of recluse may haunt his former home. Eerie noises in bedroom. By our Kidderminster correspondent. “For sale” states a noticeboard in the front garden of this house in Birmingham Road, Kidderminster, which is believed
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