Category: Dorset

 A ghost writer of the past? Western Daily Press Reporter. Employees at a Lyme Regis printing company will not work alone at night. The premises are haunted, they say. The manager, Mr Michael Woodward, agrees

 A Ghost at Parkstone. Some of the fair ladies of this pretty village have been recently alarmed by the report that “a ghost” had taken up his position in the village, and at one of

 The Lulworth Ghost; or, Cock Lane Revived. On vulgar superstition and its firm belief in speaking shadows and apparitions we think it useless at present to descant, as the following facts, which transpired some time

 Ghost stories to take into retirement. Mysterious circles etched on the floor of a Sherborne cottage are just one of the memories builder Harold Wisdom will take into his second retirement. Mr Wisdom was gutting

 In the Spiritual Magazine for September is the following by Mr Newton Crosland, of Blackheath:- “Apropos to this subject – Rest in the Grave – I wish to lay before your readers a few facts

 Askerswell. A local ghost scare. Remarkable Occurrences. The little village of Askerswell is just now in a very perturbed state consequent upon some strange  rumours of the doings of a supposed ghostly visitor at the

Weymouth. Spirit Rapping. A house in East-street, occupied by a man named Talbot, has been besieged during the last few days by an eager crowd anxious to hear the supernatural voices which are stated to

Strange Occurrences in a Dorset Village. Spiritualism or witchcraft? Extraordinary proceedings. The little village of Durweston, situate about three miles from Blandford, has been for some weeks past the scene of considerable excitement in consequence

Winfrith. An extraordinary affair. This village and neighbourhood has been thrown into a state of consternation and alarm during th elast week or ten days, by what has happened at a house in Knighton. It