Category: Cambridgeshire

The Cambridge “Ghost.” Last Tuesday week, about six o’clock in the evening, the family of Mr Haggis were startled by three (three is the mystical number) violent and distinct raps at the back door; on

 “Rapped” in Mystery. Door-knocking antics of spook. The old Cathedral city of Peterborough is being “worked” just now by the most irresponsible of spooks. It is the playful habit of this weird humorist to spend

 A Genuine Haunted House. Mr John Sarll, of the Cock Inn, has lately had two cottages near the church made into one, and a family of 10, including father and mother, grown up sons and

Spectre in Cottage? Uncanny Incidents in the night. The village curate called in. A remarkable story of ghostly visitations at a cottage comes from Upton, a village of less than 100 inhabitants, seven miles from

 Remarkable occurrence. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. Cambridge, Oct. 7. 1804. Sir,  The threat of invasion, and the “dreadful” firing off Boulogne, have been so often repeated in the papers as to have

 The Knocking Ghost at Barton. Upholland is more famous now in consequence of its “haunted” house, than ever it was, perhaps, in history. It has been made the peg upon which to hang many a

A Cambridge Mystery. Attributed to supernatural agency. A scare has been created in one of the poorer parts of Cambridge by a supposed supernatural visitation, which has caused a family to hastily vacate the house

 Tale of a Fen Ghost. Mysterious Rappings. Some strange phenomena have been startling the huge district of the Great Fen Level of Huntingdonshire and Cambridgeshire. It appears that in Tick Fen a Ramsay magistrate has

Orchestral Girl. Singular Phenomenon which is Puzzling Country Doctors. (From our own correspondent.) Newmarket, Thursday. Doctors are puzzled by the curious case of a girl which is interesting the people of the countryside around Newmarket.

  Biggleswade Chronicle, 1st March 1929 (pages 1 and 6 of 6). “Haunted House” at St. Neots. Weird Events in Ex-policeman’s Home. Many visitors completely mystified. Poltergeist: or practical joking?   Weird and almost incredible