Was Marehay visitant out of this world? Police investigations at “haunted” cottage. Ripley and Alfreton area gossip. Weird and unnerving happenings within its walls have made a tiny cottage in Marehay into a house of
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Seremban, Malaysia (1951)
Stones thrown nightly at Seremban house. Poltergeist at it again. Standard Malay Correspondent. Seremban, Tues. – It appears the poltergeist which was busy throwing stones at a house in Malacca has made Seremban its new
Continue ReadingSunderland, Tyne and Wear (1957)
Bishop to pray in ‘haunted’ house. A bishop will visit a five-roomed council house in Sunderland tonight to conduct a special service aimed at ridding the home of a “troublesome spirit.” A family of five
Continue ReadingNorbury, London (1956)
‘Ghost’ Happenings Are Due To Son Hanged For Murder, Says Family. By Sunday Dispatch Reporter. So many strange things are happening in their home, say the Bentleys of Norbury, S.W., that it must be the
Continue ReadingAitoliko, Greece (1955)
Aitolikon (Greece), Friday. Police have drawn a blank in a search for a ghost which throws stones at fishermen. Two fishermen, the brothers Nikolaos and Gerassimos Bottas, reported that the stone-throwing started when they tried
Continue ReadingBerlin, Germany (1950)
“Ghost” does overtime on Sundays. Berlin, Thursday. British troops in Berlin have lent the German police a special amplifier to help pin down a “knocking ghost” which has terrified the inhabitants of a tenement in
Continue ReadingBenha, Egypt (1958)
His Dancing Furniture Scares Lieutenant. “Ghosts” raid flat: advised to seek aid of medium. Benha (Egypt), Saturday. After reporting to his own police station that “ghosts” had raided his flat, First Lieutenant Sinout Hanna Barsoum,
Continue ReadingSowerby Bridge, Halifax, South Yorkshire (1955)
Driven from their home by “ghosts.” From our own correspondent. Hebden Bridge, Thursday. Councillors and officals at Sowerby Bridge are facing one of their strangest jobs – what to do about a haunted cottage that
Continue ReadingMadeley, Shropshire (1952)
Candles vanish – one “floated around the room”. Strange happenings at a Madeley house. Because of strange occurrences for which they are unable to account a 65-year-old widow, her granddaughter and the granddaughter’s husband have
Continue ReadingWorthing, West Sussex (1955)
The ‘hungry ghost story’ will make you think. Do you believe in ghosts? No? Then be introduced to the Mayer family who run the Salad Bowl Restaurant in Ambrose-place, Worthing. Without doubt they do. In
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