Hollingbourne Ghost. Unseen hand that flung coal and potatoes. Bangs at night. Following the sensation caused by the announcement that a Shoreham girl, Vera Obbard, was the object of attack of some ghost or spirit
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Hythe, Kent (1999)
Art critic ghost is in the frame for a spirited scam to sell paintings. Here’s one saleman who really IS whiter than white. Exclusive by James Clench. Ghostly goings-on are sending shivers down the spine
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Here is a seasonable item: – The Dean and Chapter of Canterbury have presented the vicarage of Sopley, near Bournemouth, to the Rev. J. F. Vallings, at present curate of Hythe, Kent. I hear that
Continue ReadingRamsgate, Kent (1969)
Ghost that stops the beer flowing in Thanet pub, terrorises family. Haunted pub landlord asks priest’s help. By Margaret Solley. It’s built like a church – the Thanet seaside pub where the beer suddenly stops
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Garage hands reckon friendly phantom’s on the night shift. A modern-day Elves and Shoemakers tale is unfolding at the garage in Fort Road, Margate. Staff at the Thanet Test Centre have been mystified by the
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Members’ uncanny experience. The “South Eastern Gazette” is responsible for the following strange story: On Saturday night an incident of a remarkable kind occurred at one of the clubs of Maidstone. Sounds were heard of
Continue ReadingFaversham, Kent (1996)
A giggling ghost, who has plagued a Faversham bookshop owner and cafe proprietor had an even more amazing effect on a dog owned by animal welfare worker Betty Gallop. Although a dossier of evidence is
Continue ReadingFolkestone, Kent (1996)
Real flying ‘saucer’ mystery. It’s not flying saucers spooking the neighbours in a quiet Folkestone cul-de-sac – it’s flying cups and saucers! And airborne crockery is just one example of the intense paranormal activity which,
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Lullaby in the night at home of “haunted” little girl. By Ronald Ricketts. A mother claimed last night that her three-year-old daughter Carol is being haunted by a ghost. It makes Carol talk and talk,
Continue ReadingSittingbourne, Kent (1959)
Girl says she saw ghost of woman in white in shop cellar. Strange events during recent weeks have convinced Miss Berenice Seager, proprietor of a ladies’ hairdressing salon in London Road, Sittingbourne, that the premises
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