Category: County Down

 The Cookstown Disturbances. To the Editor of the “Belfast News Letter.” Sir, – In your impression of Wednesday last  there appeared a lengthened report of a ghost story from Cookstown, which seems rather inexplicable; but,

 The “Haunted” Mangle. Some perturbation has lately been caused a Castle Street family by the extra-ordinary nocturnal performance of a washing mangle. Every night, at the same time – shortly after two o’clock – the

 The affair of the County Down ghost. It had a spite against a young lady. You don’t believe in ghosts? Neither do I, yet the following mysterious happenings on a Co. Down farm require some

 Downtown ghost on the graveyard shift. Cleaner spooked by case of the moving ashtrays. By Sue Corbett. Radio chiefs have called in a ghost buster to their Downtown station. Things have been going bump in

Haunted House. Mum of 3 to be moved after spooky activities confirmed.  By John Cassidy. Housing officials have agreed to transfer a family from their house – after the terrified mum convinced them it was

 Co. Down family not annoyed by its ghost. Footfalls were so loud, they wakened baby. By Frontier Sentinel special representative. Ballyward, midway between Banbridge and Castlewellan may not be a hamlet of any great fame

 Early Gilford Methodism. Presbyterian minister shot in riot – tragedy of 1772 – the Drumarran Ghost. Mr F.J Cole, the Methodist historian, here tells the story of the uprising of Gilford tenants, the ultimate riot

An invasion of Ghosts. At this season of the year, when the gigantic gooseberries are out, when the supernatural cucumbers have lost their fascination, and when even a cow with two tails, or a hen

 To the Editor of the Belfast Morning News. Sir, – Ghost stories are an old institution in every country under the sun. Many a deadly wound they have got from the redoubtable pen of the