Mysterious knocks and a ghostly glow. A Mobberley woman who lives in a lonely country cottage may ask the Rector of Mobberley, Canon H.S. Randle, to exorcise a “ghost” from her home. Strange knocking sounds
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Cowdenbeath, Fife (1970)
Rabbie’s ghost makes a family quit home. A family of five fled from their council house claiming it was haunted by the ghost of Rabbie Burns. Now pipe-maker Norman Penman, 21, is to apply to
Continue ReadingGateshead, Tyne and Wear (1971)
Ghost drives out seven in terror. A family of seven say they have been driven out of their council-house by a ghost. They were so terrified after two weeks of mysterious happenings that they demanded
Continue ReadingHull, East Yorkshire (1973)
‘Haunted house’ parents say their baby wakes up screaming. It’s all a bit puzzling and rather frightening at times – living in a haunted house. But Edmund Kiel, a 37-year-old partner in a Hull warehouse
Continue ReadingClifton, Nottingham (1975)
‘Hunt the spirit’ bid by group. A group of Nottingham ghost hunters were ready and waiting today to move into the Clifton council house which a family deserted after claiming it had seen a “black
Continue ReadingCam, Gloucestershire (1972)
Family are hosts to a ghost! By Allan Guy. Things go bump in the night and in the daytime too at 33 Woodfield Road, Cam, near Dursley. But they don’t worry the Cornford family who
Continue ReadingMansfield, Nottinghamshire (1976)
Noises frighten staff. Noises have frightened the staff of a Mansfield store so much they won’t go into a stockroom alone. And Littlewoods store assistant manager, Mr F A Frost, said they may call in
Continue ReadingNottingham (1977)
Ghost drove me out… and it beat vandals. A Nottingham printer claims he was driven from his premises by a ghost. And he said that vandals were scared off by the ghost after he
Continue ReadingCamberley, Surrey (1978)
Medium is called to haunted shop. A medium this week gave a graphic description of an 82-year-old “ghost” said to be haunting a Camberley shop – and as she did so a watch and an
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Blaze boy blamed ‘ghost’. A teenager who rebelled against his father blamed poltergeists for broken windows, crockery and a house fire, Warwick Crown Court heard. The father was so convinced that he told police about
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