Ghosts: Woman wants her house exorcised. Sylvia Smith’s house she claims is haunted and inset, the Very Rev Michael Bunker, Dean of Peterborough. “My dead sister seeks revenge” claims woman. By Irena Barker. A city
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Woodston, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire (1908)
A Ghost Story. (From the Peterborough “Citizen.”) While the people in Woodstone district are still discussing the strange story of the “Lady in Black,” a most detailed and circumstantial account of a wraith which has
Continue ReadingBurwell, Cambridgeshire (1970)
Ghost terrifies young family. Two local clergymen, who fought a race against time to rid a ghost from a block of new flats in Burwell, have at last succeeded in their mysterious tasks. For more
Continue ReadingGreat Staughton, Cambridgeshire (1971)
The Crown ghost is a mystery – but quite friendly. Tom and Hazel Green didn’t believe in ghosts until they took over the Crown public house at Great Staughton three months ago. Now, they are
Continue ReadingCambridge (1990s)
‘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 ReadingTydd, Cambridgeshire (1950s)
House of Ghosts. By James Wentworth Day. Is it the most haunted house in England? When I first came to it across the bleak, cold Fens in the teeth of a seawind off the Wash
Continue ReadingLinton, Cambridgeshire (1976)
The spirit of Bill Ives, the Ashdon gardener who died on the A604 in January, will return again, claimed a Linton woman, this week. Mrs Christine Toft of 65 Back Road called in the Rev.
Continue ReadingEly, Cambridgeshire (1950)
Night nurse mystery. In 1950, I was stationed at an RAF Hospital, in Ely. As duty officer, I was completing a routine night patrol of the building when, to my surprise, I met a nurse.
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A ‘Varsity Ghost which keeps rooms empty at Cambridge. Successful seance. A ghost face to face with the necessity of choosing a habitation might conceivably be torn with conflicting emotions when considering the pros and
Continue ReadingWisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire (1912)
“Ghost” at Tydd. Mysterious rappings on cottage door. This is an age rather too sceptical to accept stories of ghosts, even when the authentication seems to be most reliable, so the happenings at a cottage
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