Category: Lancashire

 Chorley. Strange “spiritual phenomenon” at Eccelston.  Our Chorley correspondent writes: – Bank House, Eccleston, in which two respectable ladies with their niece reside, has been the scene several times during the past fortnight of a

 Singular Occurrence.  A few nights ago, a man, his wife, and son, living in the neighbourhood of Lammack, Blackburn, were awakened from their slumbers about midnight by a tremendous noise downstairs, as if the table

Bolton Window Smashing Mystery. Renewed Scenes To-day. Householders and Police Baffled. Alarm and Notes of Humour. The Vernon-st. district is seething in excitement and much alarm. A startling affair, which has so far all the

Remarkable Credulity A Horwich joiner and builder, named Christopher Riley, died a fortnight ago from blood-poisoning caused by inhalation of foul sewer gases, and since the burial it is freely stated that his house is

 A “Ghost” in Bolton. Residents in Bridge-street have for some days past been thrown into a state of interesting flutter, if not of consternation, by the announcement that a ghost has taken up his quarters

 The Mystery of No. 13. Uncanny House at Fleetwood. Woman’s Appeal to Council. This is the mystery of No. 13, which is believed to be an unlucky number, according to a Fleetwood family. Uncanny noises

 “Spook” or “Spoof” Could not resist the holidays. Weird doings are reported from a boarding house in Blackpool, and although spiritualists in the town insist that they are genuine manifestations of the unseen world, practical

 Ghost in Manchester. For several nights past, immense crowds have been collected in and about the Feathers Hotel, in London Road, attracted by a story so singular, and on the face of it so incredible,

 A Lancashire Ghost. An extraordinary story comes from Kearsley, near Farnworth, Lancs, the scene being laid in a house in Primrose-street, inhabited by a collier named William Jarvis, his wife, and family. One of the

 A Ghost-haunted Railway Station. A Chorley correspondent writes:- For the past week or ten days considerable alarm has been created among the railway employes of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, at Chorley, in consequence of