All so mysterious for the Busbys. Birmingham Post Chipping Norton Correspondent. In the Cotswold village of Over Norton, Oxfordshire – population 450 – tongues have been wagging about the strange happenings in a council house
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute (1963)
A ghost on the prowl. I’ll quit town says mother. By Bill Bryant. A woman wants to flee a Scots town because she is convinced her dead mother is haunting her. Thuds in the night
Continue ReadingWorthing, West Sussex (1964)
Promenade. With John Deighton. The festive season is the time for ghost stories… and strange things have been happening at the home of Mrs Beryl France, who lives with her 18-year-old daughter Wendy and her
Continue ReadingBarnsley, South Yorkshire (1965)
Stick that waltzes baffles the local. Regulars stared, rubbed their eyes and stared and stared again. A walking stick was jumping around their pub. Not only that. Customers at the Cranberry Hotel in Barnsley, Yorkshire,
Continue ReadingCheltenham, Gloucestershire (1965)
The wall that ticks has them all baffled. A wall that ticks is baffling 21-year-old housewife Mrs Gloria Didcote, the police and local officials. The wall in the sitting room of Mrs Didcote’s home in
Continue ReadingLynwood, Los Angeles, USA (1960)
The Lynwood Poltergeist. By Raymond Bayless. One of the more fascinating and baffling types of physical [sic] activity is that general group of paranormal effects termed the “Poltergeist.” Actually, this name is very misleading inasmuch
Continue ReadingChatham, Kent (1969)
A camera was at the centre of a fascinating incident at Snob Boutique in Chatham High Street five years ago. The boutique is fitted with closed circuit television cameras to check on customers movements. One
Continue ReadingMiddleton, Greater Manchester (1968)
A house in fear of the ‘Thing’. By a Staff Reporter. Housewife Mrs Dorothy Moulton ran out of her Middleton council house in fear today as “The Thing” struck again. “The Thing” has been haunting
Continue ReadingHindley, Greater Manchester (1969)
That ghost will have to leave, decides Sarah. Pensioner Mrs Sarah Mayor’s lodger is almost always the perfect gentleman. He always keeps himself to himself and never leaves the house untidy. In fact, he had
Continue ReadingShad Bagh, Lahore, India (1960)
Troubled house draws crowds. A local bank employee’s troubled house in Shad Bagh here has become a place of attraction for scores of spectators, who turn up in batches to witness the ‘magic doings’ of
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