It’s time this ghost went west! ‘Kill Croaky off before he wrecks this house completely’ says Brian Northman. If there are such things as timid people in a down-to-earth place like the Lancashire mill town
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Horningtops, Liskeard, Cornwall (1969)
‘Ghost’ Drives Out Family. Prayers by Rector. A pair of semi-detached council houses in the hamlet of Horning Tops, near Liskeard, is the scene of strange happenings attributed by the two families concerned to supernatural
Continue ReadingNewcastle upon Tyne (1964)
Mysterious knocking sounds keep family awake. Vicar prays in house of strange noises. A vicar has said prayers in the house of a Scotswood family of five who are being troubled by mysterious knockings in
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‘Ghost’ drives family out of council house. A family of four have been moved to another council house because they claimed their house was haunted. The trouble began a few months ago when Mrs Gladys
Continue ReadingNewtown, Powys (1965)
Lively spirit keeps house awake. Birmingham Post Welshpool Correspondent. Life has not been the same for the Owen family of Garth Owen Estate, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, since the mysterious spirit arrived some months ago. No one
Continue ReadingAberdeen (1963)
[this is from April 1st. But it doesn’t really read like an April Fool) Jack Nicoll goes ghost-hunting. ‘What a Life’ – They’ve a spook. There is a ghost abroad in the Union! I mean
Continue ReadingTunbridge Wells, Kent (1966)
Mystery noise keeps family awake. Loud knocking noises which apparently come from an empty house next door are causing sleepless nights for a family in Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells. The house, which has been empty
Continue ReadingPeckham, London (1960)
Enter Spirits, Exit Family. The Titus family took one look at the furniture moving about by itself in their new council flat shortly after midnight – and fled. Mr and Mrs John Titus, Norman, aged
Continue ReadingHulme, Manchester (1963)
Strange Noises Keeping Street Awake. An entire Manchester street has protested about strange noises coming from one of the houses. The residents complain that the sounds are preventing them from sleeping at night. There was
Continue ReadingMargate, Kent (1966)
The Case Of The Haunted Bingo Hall. Dr George Owen, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and this year’s President of the Cambridge University Society for Psychical Research, brings to ghost-hunting the probing, analytical mind
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