Category: Bristol

Earl’s Mead seems to have been just north of the River Frome as it comes into Bristol city centre somewhere north of Old Market, according to Rocque’s 1750 map.  The Earl’s Mead Ghost! Startling as

 A haunting at the Beeb. Post People with Rebecca Gooch. Alec Reid has been keeping a rather unusual diary of late. And its contents have led more than a few Beebsters to wonder whether the

 A pair of pliers that walked. “Goings on ” in haunted office. Ringing bell. Sunday Mercury Special. Psychic investigators have failed to solve the mystery of mysterious happenings in a Bristol office, but they are

‘Ghosts’ drive newly weds from  Victorian flat. Newly-weds Graham and Jenny Wale travel 120 miles a day – because they are too frightened to sleep in their Bristol flat. The flat is in a Victorian

The ghost they call Mrs It may be moving today. Today’s number one task for Mrs Lucy Baber, Bristol housewife, is to get rid of the four old trunks in her boxroom. The ghost that

The First Relation  An account of the troubles that happened in the house of Peter Pain, a shoe-maker, living in Mary Poel Street, in the City of Bristol, extracted out of a letter sent me

 Terrified wife and baby quit ‘haunted’ pre-fab. Herald Reporter, Bristol, Wednesday. Ghostly happenings in a ‘haunted’ prefab have driven a young couple and their baby from their home. Doors opened and slammed by unseen hands…

 They write from Bristol that a sham Ghost is playing tricks there; and that a house near Lawford’s Gate is haunted by a mischievous Devil, who pinches the children there, and won’t let them sleep

 Haunted Shop. Ghostly noises and visitors to which a Bristol family have become accustomed. Bristol boasts a haunted shop, which is kept by a well-known watchmaker in Regent-street. It is haunted in three ways: by