Category: Leicestershire

 Spooked by ‘sitting tenant.’ A new pub landlady has been completely spooked by a sitting tenant. When Michelle Johnston first moved into the Three Horse Shoes at Stoke Golding, she didn’t count on sharing it

 VIII. In February, 1646, falling into great disability by bleeding, at the Lady Cook’s house at Milbourne in Darby-shire, I removed to Mr Noel’s house at Kirkby Malory in Leicestershire, where I lay weak three

 A Coalville ghost story. The voice of the dead. Searching for a buried treasure. By one of our staff. It seems that the superstitious, like the poor, we have always with us, and some of

Family bid to rid home of spirit presence. By Marianne Jones. A family today claimed they were being plagued by a ghost that leaves patches of water which then vanish throughout their Leicester home. The

 Hector – our happy ghost. “He’s such a help around the house.” By Marc Astley. An Earl Shilton couple have found themselves an unlikely home help in the form of a friendly ghost! The perfecct

 Asfordby. A series of strange mishaps. On Saturday and Sunday no little excitement was caused in Asfordby by certain strange occurrences which commenced at three o’clock on Saturday afternoon at the Old Hall, occupied by

 Evil spirit exorcised from town flat. A Hinckley family’s months of fear and uncertainty ended one day last week after the Rev. John Tonkin, Vicar of Holy Trinity, and Canon Lindsay Godfrey, former Canon Missioner

 Weird happenings at Leicester vicarage. Nocturnal incidents in St Margaret’s Vicarage, Church-gate, Leicester, lead the Vicar and his wife to suggest that their home is haunted. They certainly accept the theory that “a mischief-making poltergeist”

Wallpaper shop is haunted claim staff. By our resident ghost writer Helen Knott. Strange things have been going on at the Wallpaper Warehouse on the Hollycroft Road in Hinckley, according to staff who work there.

 Eerie noises startle four families. Mysterious sounds in new houses. Loughboro’ ‘ghost’. Ghostly sounds at night have alarmed four families at Loughborough; they have been scared so much that they have tried, without success, to