Category: Devon

 Bishop sees ghost house. By Reg Scott. A bishop has been called in to help three families who say a poltergeist is bombarding them with lumps of coal. The families, who live in flats at

Iron Takes Wings Oil Lamp Flies Up Staircase Plymouth story Pail puzzles city police constable Flying flat-irons, oil lamps, and hair brushes have pestered residents of 69, Charlotte-street, Devonport, in the past few days. A

 Remarkable Occurrence. A lady has lately been staying at a house in the neighbourhood of Buckfastleigh, in this county, where the following unaccountable noises were heard by different members of the family: – On the

 Strange Freaks of a Servant Girl. A servant girl employed by Mr James Wood, of Lurley Tiverton, builder, has been committing a series of foolish freaks at her master’s expense. Early one morning of last

Sampford Ghost. A plain and authentic narrative of those extraordinary occurrences hitherto unaccounted for, which have lately taken place at the house of Mr. Chave, in the village of Sampford Peverell, in the county of

(Knackersnowle = now Crownhill)  The Knackersnowle Ghost. A ghost there is at Knackersknowle, / Which frightens nearly every soul, / Who, in that very village, / Live by labour, toil, and tillage. It has seldom

Black Torrington. One of the most remarkable stories the writer  ever heard of related to a farm-house in Little Marland, Petrockstowe. Many persons now alive can remember the event, as it took place between 40

 A “ghost story” from Tiverton is to the effect that a family in the neighbourhood were alarmed by strange manifestations. Bells were unaccountably run in various parts of the house; the housemaid was summoned to

Spirit Rapping? Baffling mystery at Cullompton. Intense interest has been aroused at Cullompton by some mysterious knockings at the front door of Mr. J. Harris’s house at the top of Exeter-hill. The rappings have been