1960s - Poltergeist Archive

Keogh Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire (1966)

April 2, 2023April 2, 20231960s, Hampshire

An Army ghost gets his marching orders. He’s promised to stop his scaring. A medium who was called in by the Army last night to drive out a barrack-room ghost reported that his mission had

Long Wittenham, Oxfordshire (1962)

April 2, 2023April 2, 20231960s, Oxfordshire

Shuffling phantom haunts a shop. Girl faints with fear. It was all quiet in the village shop as 15-year-old Adrienne Bramley went about her work yesterday. Then she heard an eerie sound. Adrienne fainted with

Farmborough, Somerset (1963)

March 1, 2023March 1, 20231960s, Somerset

Ghost who is making a splash. Herald Reporter. Plumber John Kemp does not usually believe in ghosts. But the spooky goings-on in a council house are making him suspicious. Something is making the water overflow

Rosenheim, Germany (1967)

February 28, 2023February 28, 20231960s, Germany

The ghost that blew a fuse over television. Bristol BBC producer Anne Owen does not believe in ghosts, but she is convinced an electronic poltergeist is playing supernatural tricks with a programme she is compiling.

Barnsley, South Yorkshire (1965)

February 28, 2023February 28, 20231960s, South Yorkshire

Mystery sobbing sounds in a semi-detached Barnsley home. By Andrew MacKenzie. A week after he had moved into his house at Harbrough Hill Road, Barnsley, Yorkshire, in August 1965, Mr Michael White, aged 24, a

Preston Leigh, Cirencester, Gloucestershire (1963)

February 28, 2023February 28, 20231960s, Gloucestershire

Vicar is called to haunted caravan. By R.J. Simmons. A mother and her 13-year-old son have been driven from their caravan by noises and vibrations that no-one can explain. Now she has called in the

Lincoln (1965)

February 28, 2023February 28, 20231960s, Lincolnshire

Ghost got into bed with me, says Lincoln woman. Ghostly sounds of wood being chopped in the back garden late at night, coupled with the frequent phantom appearance of a young fair-haired woman in her

Nottingham (1968)

February 7, 2023February 7, 20231960s, Nottinghamshire

Raiders who weren’t afraid of ghosts. Thieves who raided a Nottingham council house were daring indeed even though nobody lives there. For the house is said to be haunted. It has been empty since the

Grimsby, Lincolnshire (1967)

February 7, 2023February 7, 20231960s, Lincolnshire

All mod con and no ghost A family “evicted” from their council house by a ghost have been given a new home. At first, Grimsby’s housing committee decided that Mr and Mrs Ted Barmingham and

Hounslow, London (1969)

February 5, 2023February 5, 20231960s, London

Girl-ghost stalks the typing pool. By Bruce Maxwell. Pretty Ellen Doherty, aged 16, is causing havoc in a London office block. She pulls typewriters apart, scatters filing cards, steals money and makes life difficult for