Category: London

 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

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

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

 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

[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,

 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

 A Kennington mystery! For some time past mysterious showers of small, blackish stones have fallen in Kennington, near the Oval cricket ground and Kennington Green, both in daylight and after dark. Several persons have seen

 Extraordinary occurrence at Brentford; or, a tale of the marvellous. On Monday, the townships of Old and New Brentford were thrown into the greatest excitement, by an occurrence, the most marvellous heard of for many

 The following recent instance is extracted from the London Papers. “A most extraordinary attack for above two months past has been made upon the windows of Mr Hodgson, a large army-clothier in Soho square, and