Visit by bishop calms ‘ghost’. The Assistant Bishop of Derby, the Rt. Rev. T.R. Parfitt, has conducted a service of blessing at a house in Pinxton, Derbyshire, where a series of ghostly happenings began to
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New Mills, Derbyshire (1914)
Derbyshire Ghosts. More Stories of Restless Spirits. Notwithstanding the explanation (published yesterday) of the noises that have led one of the two workmen at the Ollersett coal pit, New Mills, to imagine they had seen
Continue ReadingOld Whittington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (1958)
Haunted House Claim in Court. Chesterfield Magistrates were told yesterday by a probation officer that a 60-year-old woman who admitted being found drunk complained of noises in her house. The woman was Mrs Gladys Wilkinson
Continue ReadingSpondon, Derby (1987)
Terrified mum quits ‘haunted’ council house. By Felicity Newson. Terrified mum Christine McLean claims her bid to give her two young children a new life have been wrecked by a poltergeist. Today Christine told how
Continue ReadingAshbourne, Derbyshire (1990)
Ghostly goings-on. Saturday morning customers at Ashbourne’s Green Dragon Shoppe certainly got more than they bargained for when they witnessed the antics of what has since been described as “a friendly, mischievous poltergeist.” Spoons, tiny
Continue ReadingRiber, Derbyshire (1840)
A ghost. The good people of High Lees [Leas?] near Cromford, and its vicinity, have for some time past been horrified by a report of certain pranks played by some unearthly visitor, at and about
Continue ReadingMarehay, Derbyshire (1958)
Was Marehay visitant out of this world? Police investigations at “haunted” cottage. Ripley and Alfreton area gossip. Weird and unnerving happenings within its walls have made a tiny cottage in Marehay into a house of
Continue ReadingCotmanhay, Ilkeston, Derbyshire (1986)
Family flees a musical ghost. A family has fled their home in terror – because they say a ghost keeps playing “No Place Like home,” on their door chimes. Last night a vicar was giving
Continue ReadingYoulgreave, Derbyshire (1901)
Unromantic villagers who objected to the visit of ghost searchers. Youlgreave is a Derbyshire village with a haunted house. Mr and Mrs Johnson lived in it, but they gave it up because the ghost interfered
Continue ReadingChesterfield, Derbyshire (1830)
Replies: Mysterious bell ringing at Chesterfield. Nothing further having appeared in Local Notes and Queries in elucidation of this subject, I give according to promise the extracts relating to it from Bealings Bells, 1841. Mr
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