Waiting for a ghost. By Chris Oxley. All last night, I sat up waiting to meet the ghost of Penny Lane. But he didn’t keep the appointment. With floorboards for a bed and a plank
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Huyton, Liverpool (1977)
Bogeyman scares a family. A chilling series of strange coincidences… By Mark Thomas. The bogeyman in two-years-old Bobby Higgins’ bedroom is a bit different from the ones most toddlers live with – for he has
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The ghostly stranger at no. 54. Couple tell of terror which drove them out. A terrified young Liverpool couple say they have been driven out of their new home by a ghost. When water pipes
Continue ReadingEnfield, London (1977)
The house of strange happenings. By George Fallows and Douglas Bence. A family is living in fear of strange goings-on that are driving them from their home. For two weeks, they have been terrorised by
Continue ReadingLichfield, Staffordshire (1975)
The strange story of a haunted flat. A terrified mother tells of two weird years with a ghost. Mrs Rose Begley, who did not wish to be identified by a photograph, opens the door of
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Family flee the talking ghost. By Douglas Slight. A young family have been driven from their home by a “talking ghost” which, they say, switches lights on and off, turns door knobs and steals clothes.
Continue ReadingAndover, Hampshire (1974)
A sporting spook lands double. There was no way Liverpool could see themselves losing yesterday’s Cup Final. Victory was predicted by a Soccer-crazy ghost. Weeks ago the sporting spook which haunts a council house in
Continue ReadingAberdeen (1978)
Weird goings-on in typewriter showroom. Things that go bump in the night are nothing compared with the ghostly goings-on at an Aberdeen office equipment firm’s showrooms. Staff and workers at Typewriter Services and Equipment showroom
Continue ReadingBedlington, Northumberland (1976)
Family live in fear of a ghost. Burly ex-pitman Henry Walker doesn’t believe in ghosts. But after the nightly goings-on at his 24-year-old council semi even Mr Walker has to admit he might have been
Continue ReadingHeacham, Norfolk (1971)
Diary of terror is kept by haunted housewife. Housewife Mrs Emily Whilkes keeps a diary of terror – records of mysterious goings-on which have got villagers at Heacham talking about ghosts and troubled spirits. Now
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