Category: County Durham

 ‘Ghostly’ visits at West Stanley. Strange story of a “Woman in Black.” Wall-rappings. Tenants frightened by midnight noises. Strange stories of uncanny rappings, midnight footsteps on the stairs, and the ghostly visitation of a woman

 Family appeal to council after seeing ‘ghost’. Fear of ‘haunted’ house! Previous tenants quit after strange happenings. By Hazel Richardson. A Consett family are living in fear because of the “ghostly goings on” at their

 ‘Ghosts made us quit’. An ordinary English family have fled in terror from their ordinary English house – no ancient castle – because of “unseen clutching hands, footsteps in the night, icy draughts… Ghosts!” The

 Haunted building in Stockton. Rumours to a very ominous purport are current in Stockton to the effect that one of the most useful public buildings in the borough is haunted. Noises of dancing have been

 The Winston “Ghost.” At the Barnard Castle Police-court, on Wednesday, a respectably attired female, about seventeen years of age, named Margaret Rowe, was charged with committing wilful damage at Winston. Mr Deighton, farmer, stated that

 A Ghost at Etherley. For some weeks past the inhabitants of the quiet villages of Etherley and West Auckland have been thrown into alarm and excitement by a statement that a ghost is to be

 NZ 324 408 Now called Long Myers Farm. A Ghost!  A circumstance lately occurred in the house of Mr Jordison, at Longmires, near this city [Durham], which occasioned considerable alarm in his family, and excited

 Haunted Village. The devil at work in a crockery shop. During the past week the Durham mining village of Howden-le-Wear, near Bishop Auckland, has been reduced to a state of positive fear by a series

 A real ghost story. Strange tale from a Durham pit village. A story of strange happenings, mysterious and inexplicable and fitting subject for the attention of the Psychical Research Society, comes from a Durham colliery

 Outrageous Proceedings Against A Minister. The Rev. Mr Jackson, Primitive Methodist minister, Darlington, has been the object of proceedings of the most malicious and reprehensible character by some person or persons yet unknown. During the