Category: London

 Marylebone – Mysterious Affair. An affair of an extraordinary nature, and one which has caused as much consternation, alarm, and perplexity as any Cock-lane or Hammersmith ghost, has for some days past occupied the care,

A new Cock-lane Ghost seems to have arisen at the house of Mrs Golding, at Stockwell, probably nothing more than a scheme to endeavour to render a certain very worthy Baronet in that neighbourhood unpopular;

A Mysterious Affair at Clapham. An extraordinary occurrence (a correspondent says) is causing much excitement in the neighbourhood of Hafer-road, Clapham common, where the windows and conservatory of the house of Mr Piddock, a gentleman

The spook slap. The house of the dancing furniture. Some weird experiences of a doctor in good practice in the West End of London are related by Mr Inkster Gilbertson in the current number of

 Ghost with a wart. His chase for a medium. Servant girl victim in a house. A story of strange happenings at a house in Belsize Park, Hampstead, was related yesterday by the housekeeper, who explained

 The Devil of Deptford. Being a true relation of the strange disturbances, ludicrous feats, and malicious pranks of an evil spirit in the house of Mr G. living in Back Lane at Deptford near London,

 A Haunted House in Lambeth. From a Correspondent. Since Saturday last the inhabitants of Park-street, Lock’s Fields, and its surrounding neighbourhood, have been kept in a state of excitement, produced by a circumstance of somewhat

A City of London Poltergeist. The following curious narrative giving an account of disturbances occurring in 1901 upon certain business premises in the heart of the city of London seems worthy of permanent record. The

Enter Spirits, Exit Family. The Titus family took one look at the furniture moving about by itself in their new council flat shortly after midnight – and fled. Mr and Mrs John Titus, Norman, aged

 Exorcism may settle Kenton poltergeist. Things which went bang in the night have been worrying a young Kenton man, and on Wednesday a team of exorcists came to his semi-detached in Woodgrange Avenue. There were