Category: London

From the General Evening Post, July 29. The old Humour of Witchcraft and haunted Houses, seems to come mightily in Fashion, some designing People have spread it abroad that two Houses in St. James’s-street are

 A Haunted House. Since the middle of last October a very singular system of persecution has been going on in Kensington, which has hitherto baffled all attempts to discover the author, or the means by

Union Hall – The Walworth Ghost. On Saturday, Snow, the Constable of Newington, introduced an elderly man and his son into this Office, saying he understood that they had a singular application to prefer, the

 The Cock-Lane Ghost Again. Police Intelligence. Lambeth this day. – Fanny Parker, a young woman, lately a servant residing with Mr Charles Henry Kutse, a merchant’s clerk, residing at 339, Albany-road, Old Kent-road, was placed

 Another “Cock-Lane Ghost.” At Worship-street police-court, London, Elizabeth Jeafferson, 16, a mulatto, described as a domestic servant in the employ of Mrs Susanah Jardine, has been charge with breaking a number of squares of glass,

Mysterious Stone Throwing. A mysterious and diabolical case of stone-throwing occurred this week at the house of Mr Barber, 200, Maxey-road, Plumstead, where the whole of the windows in the rear of the house have

 Cock-Lane at Kensington. To the Editor of the Morning Post. Sir, – The undermentioned phenomena are so extraordinary that I feel justified in soliciting a portion of your space wherein to recount them. We live

Terror Night In Home Wrecked By Ghost. Two Sunday Pictorial representatives, Victor Thompson and Lionel Crane, yesterday spent the most amazing day in their lives. In a neat little house at Thornton Heath they saw

A Mischievous Ghost. (From a Correspondent). The whole of the neighbourhood of Black Lion Lane, Bayswater, is ringing with the extraordinary occurrences that have recently happened in the house of a Mr Williams, in the