A Tale With The Ingredients Of A Haunted House Mystery. This is a ghost story. It is a tale which has all the ingredients of a haunted house mystery… the strange noises… objects moving. But
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Magherintendry, Bushmills, County Antrim (1919)
“The talk of the town and district” – to use a familiar phrase – is about certain strange happenings of late at the residence and premises of Mr Thomas Elliott, joiner, Magherintendry. Within the past
Continue ReadingNewtownabbey, County Antrim (1996)
By John Cassidy. A randy ghost who goes bump in the night is haunting the Rathcoole housing estate. The spooky figure frightened the wits out of Harold Anderson and his wife so much they were
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Family flees after things went bump in the night. A frightened Newtownabbey family have fled their home after ‘things went bump in the night.’ Moving furniture and glowing presences were just two of the bizarre
Continue ReadingIslandmagee, County Antrim, NI (1711)
Trial of Eight Reputed Witches at Carrickfergus in 1711. A correspondent has supplied us (Standard) with copious extracts from an old pamphlet, entitled “A narrative by an eye-witness, of some strange events that took place
Continue ReadingLisburn, Northern Ireland (1845)
A Ghost in Lisburn! A degree of excitement, which for the present, bids fair to outrival that produced by the famous ghost of Cock-lane, has prevailed, for the last eight or ten days, among the
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A Haunted House. Mysterious occurrences were reported on Wednesday by a Larne correspondent. He says a house there, occupied by a railway guard, has become known as the “haunted house” owing to strange manifestations. The
Continue ReadingBallygowan, County Antrim (1866)
“Bogles” in Ballygowan. For some weeks past, the parishes of Kilwaughter and Ballynure have been bewildered by wonderful and mysterious transactions which are said to have occurred in Upper Ballygowan, in which two families have
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