Category: Hampshire

Itchen Abbas. The “Ghost” Scare. In the course of domestic duties in one of the bedrooms at the Itchen Common farmhouse the woodman’s daughter, who is in service there, is alleged to have seen to

 (Southampton is not specifically mentioned in the article, but Mr Hinves, architect, is mentioned on ‘Sotonopedia’ as being in business with a Mr Bedborough at 23 Portland Street, Southampton). Remarkable window breaking case. On Tuesday,

 An Army ghost gets his marching orders. He’s promised to stop his scaring. A medium who was called in by the Army last night to drive out a barrack-room ghost reported that his mission had

 Ghost of a chance for new home. A mother who claims her daughter has befriended a ghost called Percy is asking to be rehoused. Mrs Nichola Griggs, who says 20-month-old Jasmin has even picked up

 Tale of a timepiece Mysterious movement in a Southsea house. Most people have read of household furniture and fittings being moved by unseen hands. Though there is no longer a general belief in spooks and

 Ghosts terrorise little Jane, 8. ‘Nightmare is driving us from our home.’ An eight-year-old North Hampshire girl claims she is being terrorised by two ghosts. And the spectres are threatening to drive the girl’s family

 Fifty Years Ago, Nov. 17, 1874. Freaks of a Ghost. A correspondent writes: “Emsworth has for the past nine or ten days been in quite a state of excitement on account of the nocturnal visits

 “Ghosts” at Browndown. For some months past (says the Western Morning News) the huts at Browndown have had the reputation of being haunted. Browndown is a desolate spot at the best of times, and in

 A sporting spook lands double. There was no way Liverpool could see themselves losing yesterday’s Cup Final. Victory was predicted by a Soccer-crazy ghost. Weeks ago the sporting spook which haunts a council house in

 Things fly at night… Mysterious things are happening at night at Caer Gwent, a large house standing in its own grounds in Abbey Hill road, Winchester. A watch is being kept and questions asked about