By George! There’s a phantom in the shop… A regular customer at a Colwyn Bay do-it-yourself shop is puzzling the assistants for he never pays for anything, despite touching the goods. The customer, christened “George”
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Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (1974)
Family in fear. A strange force has made their life hell. But an exorcist may help. An exorcist is to be called in to help a Mansfield family who say supernatural forces have subjected them
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It’s so hair-raising! Salon’s eerie spirit. Strange happenings at a Nottingham hairdressing salon have led to the premises being blessed by a priest. Staff at the Hollywood Salon, Upper Parliament Street, claimed they had known
Continue ReadingHinckley, Leicestershire (1973)
Evil spirit exorcised from town flat. A Hinckley family’s months of fear and uncertainty ended one day last week after the Rev. John Tonkin, Vicar of Holy Trinity, and Canon Lindsay Godfrey, former Canon Missioner
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Fed up to the teeth with their poltergeist. Things really do seem to get moving in the dental laboratory. It plays havoc with the work By Lynne Horne. The staff of a Derby dental laboratory
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The ghost in a council house. A fmaily have asked to be moved from their council house because, they say, the house is haunted. Cannock rural council has agreed to move them from th ehouse
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Maisie weeps as the census ghost is spirited away. By Richard Stott. Joe the ghost won’t be going down on Maisie Batchelor’s census form after all. The spirit that haunted her home for eighteen years
Continue ReadingLinton, Cambridgeshire (1976)
The spirit of Bill Ives, the Ashdon gardener who died on the A604 in January, will return again, claimed a Linton woman, this week. Mrs Christine Toft of 65 Back Road called in the Rev.
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Evil spirits blamed for marriage Police and church leaders have denied that they have a haunted house on their hands at Rampton where a young wife claims that evil spirits caused the breakdown of her
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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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