The Ghost Wants To Stay, So A Family Asks For Move. An uninvited guest is forcing a Hartlepool family of seven to sleep in two rooms. And despite all their efforts the Bradys of Erskine
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Stone, Staffordshire (1977)
Where the spirit counter is real… Staff at a Stone supermarket don’t stand a ghost of a chance when Charlie gets up to his tricks. Boxes and money have been sent flying and footsteps sound
Continue ReadingBoise, Idaho, USA (1973)
Ghost fake, say police. Boise, Idaho (AP) – Police say they have determined that the ghost apparently lurking between the floors at a local home was a hoax. Mysterious rapping sounds at the home of
Continue ReadingEast Malling, Kent (1973)
Fred the ghost just won’t budge. One of Britain’s top ghost hunters has been called in by a couple whose council home is haunted by a stubborn spirit. For nearly two years George and Lynda
Continue ReadingRochdale, Greater Manchester (1971)
A ‘ghost’ takes to council house. By Ray King. Heavy footsteps marched across the floor of a council house bedroom early today… but the room was empty. Downstairs 18-year-old Bob Stoker, who had been helping
Continue ReadingHuyton, Liverpool (1977)
The ticking ‘ghost’ that drove young couple out. By Mark Thomas. The ticking of a clock began to irritate a young housewife as she decorated her bathroom – because there was no clock in the
Continue ReadingSomerford, Christchurch, Dorset (1972)
Mrs Esther Horlock has put up for five years with the knocking on doors and windows of her council home. She said yesterday: “Sometimes I get so mad I swear at him or shout ‘Come
Continue ReadingLeagrave, Luton, Bedfordshire (1976)
Looking at the archives: Thursday, March 11, 1976. A Luton vicar exorcised a house of a spirit that had terrorised two young women for seven weeks. Judy Thomson and Rosita McFadden called in the Rev
Continue ReadingGillingham, Kent (1978)
‘Ghost that drove my husband from home’. Mother tells of strange goings-on. A young mother is blaming her broken marriage on an “evil” ghost which she claims haunts her council house. Mrs June Peel says
Continue ReadingBurwell, Cambridgeshire (1970)
Ghost terrifies young family. Two local clergymen, who fought a race against time to rid a ghost from a block of new flats in Burwell, have at last succeeded in their mysterious tasks. For more
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