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
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Sao 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
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1962)
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
Continue ReadingHorningtops, 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
Continue ReadingSwindon, Wiltshire (1966)
‘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
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