Category: Essex

 Ghostly links with past. Grim discovery in old house. While restoring an old house, Treasure Holt, on the outskirts of Clacton-on-Sea, Mr and Mrs P. S. Hayward, the owners, found under the floor of a

 Cedric turns the local into a ‘ghost pub’.  Steeple Bumpstead is a peaceful enough place during the day. But after sunset things are starting to go bump in the night. The centre of the nocturnal

Police stoned for 5 hours. Mystery of night bombardment. From our own correspondent, Epping, Monday. Epping police were very much hurt, not to say annoyed, at a stone-throwing “incident” shortly before midnight yesterday. The son

 Anyone want a spooky house? Postman Walter Johnson claims that the ghost of a “mad old woman” is making life unbearable for his family in their £4-a-week council flat. So he is asking Havering council

Making some sense of the inexplicable by Nick Wood  Hallowe’en has been ritualised into a time of pumpkins, lanterns and young scamps tricking and treating on our doorsteps. But the evening of October 31 also

 Seance held in haunted house. Mysterious rappings in the rectory of Borley. ‘Former Rector’. How questions were asked and answered. From our special correspondent. Long Melford, Friday. An informal seance at the “haunted” Borley rectory

Colchester.  A mystery solved. A mystery, which for some time threw the parish of St Leonard’s into a state of great excitement and alarm, has been satisfactorily solved, and the superstitious, by whom the phenomenon

 Girl’s game calls up ‘ghost’. By David Wright. A twelve-year-old girl tried to “summon up spirits” in a lunchtime game with two school pals. And strange things started to happen. Doors at her home opened