Help, my house is haunted. A young mother is pleading to be rehoused because she says a ghost is haunting her council home. Beverley Walsh, 22, said: “In the last two weeks my bed has
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Nunsthorpe, Grimsby, Lincolnshire (1959+)
Grimsby family quits house: It’s haunted, they say. By Marjorie Stephenson. No. 1, Newton-grove is a solidly built council house on the Nunsthorpe estate; a family house in a terrace of similar homes built almost
Continue ReadingHarleston, Norfolk (1983)
Haunted by a woman-hater. By Jane Oddy. When Mandy Franks moved into her new home in Harleston she jokingly asked the previous owners whether the 500-year-old building was haunted. Little did she realise the truth
Continue ReadingReading, Berkshire (1980)
Family quits ‘haunted’ house. Shirley and Stephen Du-Val with baby Kevin in their bedroom at the flat they claim is haunted. A frightened young mother has quit her council flat, driven out, she claims, by
Continue ReadingWhitstable, Kent (1981)
Violent young girl from haunted house. A Whitstable girl of 15, whose family home was haunted by a poltergeist, violently attacked two police women. She pulled hair out of the scalp of one officer and
Continue ReadingBournemouth, Hampshire (1981)
Priest called in to chase spooks. Baffled police called in a priest to exorcise a house yesterday after a six-hour bout of the spooks. A series of ghostly attacks had rocked the quiet home of
Continue ReadingFormby, Merseyside (1985)
Mischievous ghost of Christmas past. Joe Riley with a spine-chilling tale about a poltergeist. Only now can the story be told. Because only now has the poltergeist which brought terror to a group of Formby
Continue ReadingEllesmere Port, Cheshire (1988)
The bath that leaked petrol! By Paul Tyrrell. Pensioners Bill and Edie Ithell thought they had struck it lucky when they found their bath was leaking… petrol! But the couple’s hopes of having their own
Continue ReadingSeaton Sluice, Northumberland (1980)
Vicar’s ghost story. A vicar has backed up claims of ghostly goings-on in an old house. Grocer Harry Laidler called in the Rev. Robert Watkins after a “supernatural prank” at his old family home near
Continue ReadingThatcham, Berkshire (1984)
John, 18, gets a spirited welcome. Police have been called in to investigate a series of strange goings on at a Berkshire home. There have been bumps in the night, doors open when they should
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