Electric sparks fly for poor Sonia. by Ray Bryant Everything that Midas touched turned to gold… but Sonia Maslen is not so lucky. Everything that she touches goes bang, and to prove it she can
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Elba, Tuscany, Italy (1982)
City nanny held on cot death bid. By Bob Dow. A young Aberdeen nanny is being held in an Italian jail accused of attempting to murder a three-year-old girl. And the mother of 20-year-old Carol
Continue ReadingCotmanhay, Ilkeston, Derbyshire (1986)
Family flees a musical ghost. A family has fled their home in terror – because they say a ghost keeps playing “No Place Like home,” on their door chimes. Last night a vicar was giving
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Ghost a priest couldn’t conquer trucks family across city. Flight from the house of evil. By Larry Neild and Bob Burns. A Liverpool mum and her daughter fled their haunted home in terror after a
Continue ReadingNottingham (1987)
Ghost of a chance for new home. Couple driven out by a spook win court ruling. A couple who fled from their council home because of bizarre ghostly happenings were today given leave to seek
Continue ReadingDordon, Warwickshire (1980)
Couple say: ‘We’ve been driven from home’. Ghost – or just a grudge? A young Dordon couple claim they have been driven out of their home by an unfriendly ghost. Mr Tony Sweet and his
Continue ReadingDidcot, Oxfordshire (1984)
Haunted events at the pet shop. Anxious pet shop owner Ira Wright has got something fishy going on in her store. The ghoulish goings-on led Mrs Wright to call in her local vicar in a
Continue ReadingSheffield, South Yorkshire (1987)
Not giving in to shop ghost. Aishley Spencer (20) is fighting a ghost to keep her corner shop open all hours. At Auntie Ann’s, in Chesterfield Road, Sheffield, cigarettes are said to jump from ashtrays,
Continue ReadingLiverpool (1984)
Today’s Throstle’s Nest stands on the corner of Chapel Gardens, next to St. Anthony’s. Built in 1881, it was once an overnight hostelry for travellers using the Irish Ferries. Now managed by Mr. Graeme Pugh
Continue ReadingHampstead, London (1980s)
Haunting the stars: Poltergeists to the rich and famous. Bob Hoskins puts his Hollywood success down to the night he saw a ghost. He was working as a porter in London’s Covent Garden at the
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