Family living in fear. By Bob Riches. A grandmother and her family are living in fear as a spate of mysterious events haunts them. A distraught Mrs Ellen Cook (68) and her daughter, Audrey Parker,
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire (1986)
Man in ‘ghost’ house alert. By David Benjamin. A senior Stourbridge based official of the National Spiritualist Church today warned a council house tenant not to hold a seance to try and contact ghosts he
Continue ReadingWest Bromwich, West Midlands (1981)
‘Snowy’ apparition seen praying. MP asked to help family to flee ghost. An MP has been called in to help a West Bromwich family escape a ghostly figure which they claim is haunting their house
Continue ReadingHelston, Cornwall (1985)
Wife ‘driven from flat’ by eerie noises. By Noel Perry. Mystery surrounds strange noises, smells and other sensations at a Helston flat which, according to one neighbour, drove a woman out of her home. The
Continue ReadingChesham, Buckinghamshire (1980)
The not-so-sweet smell of fear that haunts Bob and Margaret. A malevolent spirit haunting the upper rooms and hallway of a cottage in Chesham is forcing a recently married couple to look for somewhere else
Continue ReadingTaunton, Somerset (1985)
999! A ghost is chasing me… and even the law is spooked. Police couldn’t believe it when a terrified 999 caller pleaded: Help! I’m being attacked by a ghost! PC Bob Corrick dashed to the
Continue ReadingKilmore Quay, County Wexford (1987)
Eerie happenings in a Kilmore cottage. By Maria Pepper. Eerie happenings prompted a Kilmore Quay man and his elderly mother to move out of a traditional thatched cottage which is now up for sale. The
Continue ReadingSmethwick, West Midlands (1987)
Home has ‘crying ghost’. A Smethwick couple are considering calling in the clergy to conduct an exorcism. They believe their home is haunted by a “crying” ghost. Mrs Jayne Egginton and her husband, Alan, of
Continue ReadingGranard, County Longford (1988)
Priest called in as family flees ‘ghost’ house. From Paul Williams in Granard. A terrified Co. Longford family told yesterday how they called in a priest in a bid to ‘exorcise’ a sinister presence from
Continue ReadingIsleworth, London (1988)
Phantom of the flats! Faceless man ‘haunts’ home. Friends no longer visit Lesley Hughes’ flat in Isleworth – because they do not like her spirits. No, not her gin or scotch, although her situation is
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