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
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Thrussington, Leicestershire (1822)
A most extraordinary sensation was excited at the village of Thrussington, near Mountsorrel, on Saturday last, and the wisdom of the wisest amongst the wise has hitherto been incapable of developing the mystery. About a
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More amazing tales from the vaults of the M files. Living with poltergeists. By Andrea Thompson. From the outside, it looks like any other terraced house in an inner city estate. But inside the house
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A Grammatical Ghost. For some time past, the inhabitants of Sheepshead have been greatly alarmed – not at the armed Chartists, but at something more etherial, though, by the way, most persons are of opinion,
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Does child’s spirit haunt family home? Special report by Tara Rippin. Sensing the spirit of a young child breezing eerily in and out of your home is strange enough – but can you imagine becoming
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To the disgrace of this enlightened age, a belief in the appearance of ghosts and apparitions still seems to exist in the mind, and exert its baneful influence over the actions of a considerable part
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Haunted Leicestershire. The ghost they couldn’t lay. “Gunpowder Digby” of Tilton. Weird Pranks. Tilton, to-day. Tilton is still holding my affection and my presence (writes our Special Commissioner), for it possesses a ghost, which, or
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Strange goings-on at town shop. ‘Mystery lady’ sends books flying off shelves. Spooked! The ‘shadowy lady’ keeps shop assistant Esther Freeman (left) and floor manager Mandi Denysson on their toes. Photo by Darren Cresswell. Ghostly
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Misty figure, moans and footsteps in Leicester “haunted house.” Standing in “Anne Boleyn’s Room” in her house at Southfields drive, Leicester, Mrs R.A. Smith described to the Evening Mail today the strange night-time occurrences there
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Is there a ghost in the house? A team of Long Eaton Advertiser reporters is carrying out a full investigation into claims that a council flat in Hemington is haunted. Tenants of the Castle Donington
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