Ghostly lodger of Riverside Drive. By David Smith. Mr William Russell, superintendent of the Church of Scotland Hostel on Riverside Drive, with the haunted house in the background. Glass shattering, doors banging, cushions scattering and
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Chester, Cheshire (1969)
Does a ghost filter through the House of Bewley? Strange things have been happening at the House of Bewley, the tobacconists, in Eastgate Street, and now the firm are to seek the help of a
Continue ReadingAudley, Staffordshire (1973)
The houseproud ghost. Ethel Joynson liked to have everything about the house just so. She was a houseproud sort of person. When she died, her old spick-and-span place became the home of the Heath family.
Continue ReadingBirmingham (1974)
‘Sense of evil’ in a baby’s bedroom. Footsteps and noises in night. Four priests and a psychic research team have been called in to lay the ghost of Hagley Road. A series of inexplicable events
Continue ReadingKirkby, Merseyside (1971)
New bid to lay ghost of Tedbury Close. A church minister will to-night visit a three-storey block of flats in Kirkby to exorcise a ghost which has been frightening families there. The residents in Tedbury
Continue ReadingSmethwick, West Midlands (1975)
Couple defy vibrations. Vibrations that have shaken paintings off walls and cracked the plaster in a Sandwell council home were dismissed as a plumbing fault last night. Mr and Mrs Frederick Salmon, of Linton Close,
Continue ReadingLong Sutton, Lincolnshire (1978)
Sit-in bid to get re-housed. Woman’s haunted home plea. A Long Sutton woman is holding a lonely protest vigil at Spalding Town Hall because she says her house is haunted. Mrs Jean Pentney of 14
Continue ReadingNewcastle upon Tyne (1972)
Mary Bell house ‘is haunted’. A terrified family have asked for a move from their council house, the former home of child killer Mary Bell. They claim that the house is haunted. The Calvert family
Continue ReadingKing’s Lynn, Norfolk (1974)
Family haunted by ghostly goings-on. Strange things are happening in the Hawes household, things that have no reasonable explanation… uncanny happenings that are disrupting house and home. Weird goings-on over the past two years have
Continue ReadingPilton, Somerset (1973)
Pilton’s Ghostly Story. Ghostly footsteps in the early hours of the morning are disturbing a Pilton woman in her 300-year-old cottage. Mrs Hilda Cousins and her husband moved into ‘Tumbledown,’ Mount Pleasnat, 12 months ago
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