Extraordinary Ghost. A respectable lady, named Jervis, residing in Regent’s-street, Poplar, applied to Mr Bennett, the sitting Magistrate, on Thursday last, for advice how to act under the following ludicrous circumstances: She stated, that she
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Kennington, South London (1818)
A Ghost. The inhabitants of Kennington Cross have, within these few days back, been much alarmed by the report of a Ghost haunting a house occupied by a Widow Lady, of the name of Robbins,
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Strange and fearfull newes from Plaisto. In the parish of West-ham, near Bow, four miles from London, in the house of one Paul Fox, a silk weaver, Where is daily to be seen throwing of
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Relat. XX. A house haunted some Thirty years ago or more at or near Bow, not far from London, and strangely disturbed by Daemons and Witches. A certain gentleman about thirty years ago or
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A Greenwich Ghost. Strange statements about the noisy spirit of a murdered woman. A remarkable “ghost” story comes from Greenwich. It appears that Mr Peter Bothwick, in the employ of the South Metropolitan Gas Company,
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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
Continue ReadingHampton, London, Surrey (1868)
Another Ghost Story. Considerable excitement has been created in this village lately by a noise at a gentleman’s house, as of stones being thrown at a window. It was supposed at first that some one
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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
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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
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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
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