Jolly Roger the ‘lodger’. Casper the friendly ghost has got nothing on a county family’s friendly phantom. The Johnsons from Constance Avenue, North Hykeham, have spent the last 17 years sharing their home with their
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Hull, East Yorkshire (1997)
There’s a ghost in our house! Two frightened couples have been forced to flee their homes in a “haunted house from hell” on the city’s famous Hessle Road. Horrific screeching, unexplained bangs in the night,
Continue ReadingBuckland, Portsmouth, Hampshire (1992)
Ghost of a chance for new home. A mother who claims her daughter has befriended a ghost called Percy is asking to be rehoused. Mrs Nichola Griggs, who says 20-month-old Jasmin has even picked up
Continue ReadingCramlington, Northumberland (1991)
Two up, two down blessing for estate agents with des res ghost! Exclusive by Sarah Stephens. A ghost-busting vicar was called to exorcise a North estate agency… after a three-month spate of horror-hauntings. Spooked staff
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Scared mum fears flat is haunted. “It is really scary. I do not find it amusing at all. I dare not stop up there alone now.” – Joanne Bulmer. Worried mother Joanne Bulmer fears she
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‘Holy ghost’ helps out canon at St Mark’s. Clergy admit: We’ve got it maid! by Sarah Holmes. Cambridge. Three generations of vicars say they have lived with the ghost of a helpful maid in a
Continue ReadingLeicester (1991)
Family bid to rid home of spirit presence. By Marianne Jones. A family today claimed they were being plagued by a ghost that leaves patches of water which then vanish throughout their Leicester home. The
Continue ReadingLincoln (1990s)
The ghosts of two children are believed to be haunting a Lincoln home. And the hauntings centre around the airing cupboard of the Tilt family’s Victorian property off Monks Road. The couple told the L
Continue ReadingShard End, Birmingham (1996)
Boy’s terror in house of the vampire. A six-year-old boy has fled his Birmingham home because he believes a ghostly woman and her little girl are haunting him. Terrified Adam Hemming has refused to set
Continue ReadingMargate, Kent (1993)
Garage hands reckon friendly phantom’s on the night shift. A modern-day Elves and Shoemakers tale is unfolding at the garage in Fort Road, Margate. Staff at the Thanet Test Centre have been mystified by the
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