Terror spirit stalks Hope Street home. An experience of the supernatural has left a Sheerness mother “paralysed with fear”, her brother claims. Since Saturday night when 37-year-old Margaret Parsons fell victim to evil spirits, she
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Whitstable, Kent (1981)
Violent young girl from haunted house. A Whitstable girl of 15, whose family home was haunted by a poltergeist, violently attacked two police women. She pulled hair out of the scalp of one officer and
Continue ReadingCranbrook, Kent (1896)
Cranbrook. Mysterious. To the residential inmates of one of our country residences, occupying a pleasant position within Cranbrookian precincts, the past week, and part of the present one, has been a time of curiously mixed
Continue ReadingTunbridge Wells, Kent (1901)
A “Haunted” Lodging-house. We quote the following from the Daily Mail, which may probably intend to father upon Tunbridge Wells the episode which it attributes to a “fashionable town on the borders of Kent and
Continue ReadingTunbridge Wells, Kent (1966)
Mystery noise keeps family awake. Loud knocking noises which apparently come from an empty house next door are causing sleepless nights for a family in Mount Sion, Tunbridge Wells. The house, which has been empty
Continue ReadingGravesend, Kent (1879)
My Experience in a Haunted House. The interest aroused a fortnight since by the vagaries of the Gravesend “Coal Heaving Ghost,” has induced a gentleman resident in Ireland to send us two copies of The
Continue ReadingLamberhurst, Kent (1906)
The “Daily Mail” Investigates The Lamberhurst “Ghost.” We quote the following from Monday’s “Daily Mail”:- Strange, unaccountable things are befalling in the neighbourhood of Lamberhurst, Kent. The villagers, who in the midst of their laughter
Continue ReadingBroadstairs, Kent (1908)
Broadstairs Ghost Story. A circumstantial story of mysterious midnight sounds and happenings in a house in the centre of Broadstairs has aroused intense curiosity among residents there, according to the special correspondent of the “Daily
Continue ReadingMargate, Kent (1966)
The Case Of The Haunted Bingo Hall. Dr George Owen, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and this year’s President of the Cambridge University Society for Psychical Research, brings to ghost-hunting the probing, analytical mind
Continue ReadingMaidstone, Kent (1924)
Brass Knob “Ghost.” The practical joker is about again. A “ghost” which persisted in removing the brass knobs off a bedstead has been disturbing a house in Malling Terrace, Maidstone. An elderly couple, Mr William
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