Category: Essex

 Mystery noises worry woman living alone. Knocks on door – but there is no knocker. Mysterious bangings on the front door of the cottage where she lives alone in Widdington main street have been worrying

 Boy ‘Haunted by Evil Spirit’ taken away from home. A boy who was said to have started a £70,000 school blaze while he was possessed by an evil spirit was taken from his home by

 A very extraordinary circumstance has lately attracted the notice of the inhabitants of Colchester. A widow woman, (Mrs. B.) who kept a farm in the neighbourhood, frequently complained of her house being haunted. Strange noises

Burnham. Extraordinary outrage at Burnham. Mysterious breaking of Mr A Rome’s windows. Mr and Mrs A Rome, of Burnham-on-Crouch, have been victims of an extraordinary outrage. On Friday two or three panes of glass were

 Priest’s Strange Experience. Blow on door from unseen hand. What he describes as an “uncanny” experience is related by Canon McKenna, of St Helens Catholic Church, Westcliffe, in his church magazine. At a very late

A Thrilling Ghost Story. A Mrs Dolland is the tenant of Seymour House, Alexandra-road, Southend, and, as lodgers, there reside with her Major and Mrs Buller and family. On Monday afternoon, the 22nd ult, the

The solution of a mystery at the Hythe, Colchester, awaits the return home of a man who has gone down to the sea in a ship. He is the possessor of the key of a

 An Exact Narrative of many Surprizing Matters of Fact Uncontestably wrought by an Evil Spirit or Spirits, in the House of Master Jan Smagge, Farmer, in Canvy-Island, near Leigh in Essex, upon the 10th, 13th,

Strange Ghost Story from Gt. Baddow. Parson, Policeman, Parish Councillor.  Great Baddow is agog with excitement over a spook story. This, however, is by no means a new experience for the villagers, for on more

  A Village Mystery. Reported occult happenings at Hempstead. Candlesticks that jumped. The blood of some of the inhabitants of the villages of Hempstead and Helions Bumpstead, two usually quiet parishes in rural North Essex,