Poltergeist nightmare. Tyneside couple tell of terror. A Tyneside couple talked today of the poltergeist which brought terror to their home. Their ordeal began when a toy donkey glided – unaided – down the stiars.
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New Hartley, Blyth, Northumberland (1961 and 1974)
When things go bang and knock in the night That’s the trouble with Charlie the ghost. Charlie, a ghost that goes bang in the night, is terrorising families in three houses in Bristol Street, New
Continue ReadingBraintree, Essex (1971)
Boy ‘Haunted by Evil Spirit’ taken away from home. A boy who was said to have started a £70,000 school blaze while he was possessed by an evil spirit was taken from his home by
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Strange Knockings. After reading J.J. Brown’s letter headed “The night a spirit called,” I found it interesting to know someone else has had this experience also. My wife and I are often awakened during the
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Family in fear of a “spook”. By Tony Robinson. A family are walking the streets at night – because they are scared of a ghost. Wayne Bickerton and his wife, Marie, take their nine-month-old daughter
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The ‘ghost’ haunting a family. A Speke family is refusing to sleep in their four bedroomed council home – because they say it is haunted. Mr Thomas Wright, his wife, Elizabeth, and their six children
Continue ReadingHighgate, London (1975)
The Posta ghosta in the toasta. By Jack Lewis. Comedienne Adrienne Posta has a ghost in her toaster. She and her husband, songwriter Graham Bonnet, have discovered that their 300-year-old house in Highgate, London, is
Continue ReadingHemington, Leicestershire (1973)
Is there a ghost in the house? A team of Long Eaton Advertiser reporters is carrying out a full investigation into claims that a council flat in Hemington is haunted. Tenants of the Castle Donington
Continue ReadingSunderland, Tyne and Wear (1976)
Expert probes 2 hauntings. A “haunted flats” claim by two terrified women is to be investigated by a university lecturer. Dr John Belloff, lecturer in the psychology department of Edinburgh University, wants to find out
Continue ReadingMundford, Norfolk (1971)
Strange Noises are No Joke at this house. Is someone from the spirit world disturbing the tenants of a Swaffham Rural Council house at Mundford? Mr Arthur Drew and his wife Ellen, who live at
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