Mystery of the Milk Bottle That Hopped. “Evening News” Reporter. Mysterious footsteps in the night, strange rappings on the windows, doors which slowly open and shut, and lights which for no apparent reason are switched
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St Pancras, London (1661)
Mr Andrew Paschal, Fellow of Queen’s College in Cambridge, his narrative of three nights disturbance at his father’s house in Soper-Lane, London, in August, 1661. The first night’s disturbance; There was in family my father
Continue ReadingBlackheath, London (1905)
Ghost rings a bell. Police puzzled by a spectre-haunted house at Blackheath. On Saturday night some malicious spirit disturbed the occupants of a little house in Blackheath by ringing the doorbell at intervals throughout the
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Disturbances of a poltergeist nature are reported at Conyers Park, New Barnet, where a ten-year old girl is said to have met a mysterious death some years ago. Mrs Ellis, one of the local residents,
Continue ReadingStreatham, London (1962)
Have those nuns moved into a flat? Ghostly noises, mystery lights alarm couple. Have the ghosts of Coventry Hall nipped smartly through the Streatham High Road traffic to find new haunting grounds? For there have
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An Uxbridge “Ghost” and its antics. The alleged presence of a “ghost” in a house and its vicinity in the Cowley-road has aroused a good deal of interest and controversy in the town during the
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Extraordinary Case. The neighbourhood of Kennington has for some time past been both amused and alamred by an unusual and extraordinary circumstance. – A respectable person, while at home at his house, about one o’clock
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Weird incidents in Cock-Lane. Spook who picks locks. Some curious and unexplained events at Saracen House, Snow Hill, have caused people to inquire whether the famous Cock-lane ghost is at work again. Saracen House is
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[It’s quite hard to spot to where this refers as the road names have changed] Mysterious Case. Marlborough-Street. On Saturday an investigation which excited the greatest interest, and lasted till a very late hour,
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XIV. There is now in London an understanding, sober, pious man, oft one of my hearers, who hath an elder brother, a gentleman of considerable rank, who having formerly seemed pious, of late years doth
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