Category: Lancashire

 Police watch a house of baffling mysteries. Crockery flies, books float on air – but who does it? Blackpool police are keeping watch on a century-old four-roomed house in the outskirts of the town where

 The Blackburn “Ghost” Mystery. During the past month or five weeks between 200 and 300 panes of glass have been mysteriously broken in some cottage houses known as Union-buildings, Daisyfield, Blackburn. The object of this

 Ghosts. I don’t know what the average American’s reaction to the mention of Wigan is, but quite a few thousand readers of occult magazines in the USA will be seeing the name of the “loyal

 Dog goes mad. Chorley couple “now believe in ghosts.” Since moving into a Standish street house 17 months ago, a Chorley couple, Mr Allan Mather and his 21-year-old wife, have been troubled by peculiar noises

 Noisy “Ghost” in Bow-st. Strange knockings and moving lights. Hand through a man-hole. The residents at a shop and house in Bow-st. are becoming very much excited and distressed by what they believe to be

 Queer noises in house. Spiritualists’ help sought by two ex-service sisters. On Wednesday night, in a house in Fleetwood, I heard sounds – rappings – said to be a poltergeist at work. By which I

 A remarkable ghost story. During the past few weeks there has been commotion in Skelmersdale, occasioned not by the demands of the colliers for increased wages, but by a strange apparition and other remarkable phenomena,

 It’s time this ghost went west! ‘Kill Croaky off before he wrecks this house completely’ says Brian Northman. If there are such things as timid people in a down-to-earth place like the Lancashire mill town

 Extraordinary Affair. Practical joking. The borough of Bolton has been started from its propriety, in consequence of the general spread of a story, that some unearthly visitant had taken up its abode in a lawyer’s

 Mysterious occurrences. Alleged haunted house in Church-street. For the past few nights a considerable number of persons – chiefly young ones – have congregated at the bottom of Church-street after night has set in, owing