Sailor is flown home to catch ghost. A sailor’s wife is troubled by a ghost – so the Navy has flown her husband home from Malta to see about it. The ghost has been worrying
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Warrington, Cheshire (1958)
Haunted? Now the Browns wonder. Strange happenings at their council house are puzzling Mr and Mrs Stewart Brown, of Alpass Avenue, Warrington. “We haven’t seen any ghosts around, but we are beginning to think that
Continue ReadingArgoed, Blackwood, Caerphilly (1950)
Young mother must not return to ‘Ghost House’ say doctors. Committee promises a new home. Twenty-six-years old Mrs Violet Witts, miner’s wife, mother of four young children, of 8, Upper James-street, Argoed, near Blackwood, Monmouthshire,
Continue ReadingWarsash, Hampshire (1958)
She believes ghost has secret. Strange sounds heard in a Warsash house. Standing in the doorway of her 250-year-old oak-beamed cottage, a Warsash woman told a reporter that she thought ghosts were trying to lead
Continue ReadingOundle, Northamptonshire (1956)
Ghosts in West Street. by Rex Needle. Nothing is less conducive to thoughts of ghosts and poltergeists than the attractive modern front of a multiple grocery store in Oundle’s West Street. But take a peep
Continue ReadingBattersea, London (1956)
Poltergeist follows me everywhere, says Shirley. Everywhere that 15-year-old Shirley Hitchings goes – so she said yesterday – a poltergeist goes too. You can tell when the poltergeist is there by the tapping…. The tapping,
Continue ReadingWeedon, Northamptonshire (1950)
Council House “Ghost.” A ghost is reputed to walk at Weedon. Mr C.E. Gibbes told Daventry R.D.C. today that he had been given the definite assurance that a council house, built to fill up a
Continue ReadingAynho, Northamptonshire (1953)
“Queeky” haunts this house at Aynho. A poltergeist investigated. Pursuing the recent correspondence on local ghosts “Guardian” reporter J. Cashman accepted an invitation to spend a night in a house at Aynho which is reputed
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 ReadingLewes, East Sussex (1950)
A ‘ghost’ snuffs their candle and hurls books. Mr and Mrs Arthur Evans used to think they had one of the quietest houses in the country. But now they say some poltergeist, a ghostly mischief-maker,
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