Category: Hertfordshire

 Ghostly haunt. One of the quietest events to take place in Lowewood Arts Centre, recently was the blessing of the building by the Rev. John Springbett, Vicar of Hoddesdon. It had been felt for some

 Poltergeists? It’s all over now, but it was hair-raising at the time. Mischievous spirits at work at Hitchin Urban District Council’s rating office in Brand Street! Stones, pieces of coke, a key, belt buckle and

 Ghosts in a workhouse. The nurses at Hitchin Workhouse are rebelling against night duty, not because of the extra labour or the additional monotony it brings, but on account of the “agitation, mingled with a

I dare say that a good many of your readers have read Dickens’s “Haunted House.” There is a Defoe-like truthfulness about soem of the tales which must have struck most readers, and the thought must

 From ‘Haunted Hertford’ video (Graham Wyley and Keith Morbey), 1996. Sheffield Pharmacy, Fore Street, Hertford. Strange sounds have been heard, and things have moved of their own accord. Graham Wyley asked Pat what she had

 Family plagued ‘by two entities’. A family claim their lives have been turned upside-down by a catalogue of paranormal experiences. This week, a psychic went to their Hoddesdon home in a bid to rid the

 I remember a curious circumstance which occurred some few years ago at the house of a Mr Tyers, Nash Mills, a village a few miles the other side of Watford, in Hertfordshire. All of a

 Considerable alarm has been felt by the younger portion of the inhabitants of Baldock, by the rumour that a real live ghost was haunting a house at the top of the High-street. A large number

 Girl and Ghost. Spook chats to pretty land girl in Morse. Dorothy White is a young land girl, the story of whose nightly talks with a ghostly visitor, who raps out messages in the Morse