Category: London

The Haunted Portrait Amazing happenings at art school Picture of a dead girl which refuses to remain in its frame From our own correspondent, London, Tuesday. A psychic manifestation is said to be the cause

Mysterious tappings. Sir, For the last ten or fourteen days, my daughter and myself have been almost terrified by mysterious tappings on the wall of our bedroom at certain times in the early morning. We

 Thumps in the night. “Ghost-seekers” who have failed. Three Chiswick gentlemen have this week been endeavouring to elucidate the mystery of a “haunted house” at Northolt, Greenford, and have failed. The house is an old

The ghost did not want to be interviewd. Reporters’ 1a.m. ‘sit-in’. By Penny Hopkirk. There’s something peculiar going on in Hounslow. Once there were gibbets on Highwayman’s Heath where the hanged bodies were brought from

 £1 note thief is a spook. The thieving poltergeist has overdone it. He has taken £1 too many from the Hankins of Hounslow. For four years 28-year-old Clifford Hankin and his wife have been missing

 Charlie the ghost takes a fancy to fish. It isn’t safe to leave things lying around in a basement flat in Adamson-road, Hampstead, London. Residents say it is haunted – by a hunchback ghost they

 About the year 1645, Richard Baxter, author of “Baxter’s Saint’s Rest,” a book valued by many Christians second only to the Bible, delivered an “Historical Discourse on Apparitions,” in which he said: “There is now

 ‘Headless Ghost in Pre-fab’. By Sunday Dispatch reporter. The ghost of a headless man is causing considerable alarm to people living in prefabricated bungalows in Page-road, Bedfont, Middlesex – so much so that the police

 “Haunted House.” Family mystified by knockings. For five weeks members of an East London family, together with some of their neighbours, have been unable to sleep at night for what they describe as loud knockings

“Haunted Mansion.” The story of “ghostly manifestations” in a 400-year-old Highgate Hill mansion, Fairseat, published in the “Journal” the other day, was read with particular interest by two Nottingham sisters who some years ago were