Category: London

 £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

 A Whitechapel Ghost. A coke throwing spirit in the ghetto. There is an epidemic of ghosts in England and Wales just now. The ghastly spectre of the Llynfi Valley, in Wales, is still at large,

 “Ghost” at a club. Members to engage psychic investigator. Strange things are said to be happening at the Moulin Rouge, a Brixton club. A psychic investigator is to be asked to spend a night in

The Mysterious Window Smashing. We are pleased to be able to state that the mysterious window smashing, which has lately caused so much excitement in this village, was discontinued from last Saturday night till Thursday

 Grim secret of a “haunted house.” Infant’s body found in chimney. The grim secret of a “haunted house” has been revealed at Rotherhithe. For 12 years No. 678 Rotherhithe Street has been standing empty. Locally