Girl’s game calls up ‘ghost’. By David Wright. A twelve-year-old girl tried to “summon up spirits” in a lunchtime game with two school pals. And strange things started to happen. Doors at her home opened
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Peckham, London (1962)
The couple in fear of a firebug ghost. Graham Stringer and his wife Vera will sleep uneasily this weekend – if they sleep at all. They fear the ghost of a baby will set fire
Continue ReadingLivingston, West Lothian (1969)
Our council flat is haunted – say a family. A young couple claim they are being terrorised in their new house … by ghosts. Hugh and Ellen Cassels and baby David moved into their council
Continue ReadingKensington, London (1968)
Things that go bump in the market. The things that go bump in the night are getting cheeky… they are getting up to their tricks in broad daylight. And with hair-raising results. For two months,
Continue ReadingBournemouth, Hampshire (1964)
Secretary has a date with a spook. Ever been tucked into bed by a persistent poltergeist? Take it from Margaret Best – it’s not much fun. Miss Best, a 28-year-old secretary, of Bournemouth, Hants, should
Continue ReadingWiddington, Essex (1965)
Mystery noises worry woman living alone. Knocks on door – but there is no knocker. Mysterious bangings on the front door of the cottage where she lives alone in Widdington main street have been worrying
Continue ReadingSao Paulo, Brazil (1960)
A Ghost Wrecks His Home. A police guard and fireworks have not been effective in putting an end to “phenomena” which are gradually wrecking the home of Senor Jose Pereira in Sao Paulo. It all
Continue ReadingTottenham, London (1968)
A ghost who switches on the tv set. Two policemen and a spiritualist spent a night in a haunted house last night, investigating the case of a noisy ghost. The ghost switches on the television
Continue ReadingNew Hartley, Blyth, Northumberland (1961 and 1974)
When things go bang and knock in the night That’s the trouble with Charlie the ghost. Charlie, a ghost that goes bang in the night, is terrorising families in three houses in Bristol Street, New
Continue ReadingCalverton, Nottinghamshire (1961)
A Haunted Vicarage..? Demolition men hear footsteps where there is no floor. Weird happenings at Calverton’s derelict old vicarage have set two demonlition workmen wondering if there is any truth in ghosts. For more than
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