Category: London

Vicar fed up with ghosts. News Chronicle Reporter. The vicar of Ham, the Thames-side village near Richmond, Rev. Ernest Beard, B.A. is fed up with poltergeists, he told me yesterday. He was uncertain which was

 Lambeth. Maria Horgan, 20, described as a servant, was charged before Mr Lushington with stealing a watch and chain, the property of George Wells. The facts in connection with the case were very extraordinary. Detective

 Strange Doings. (From a Correspondent). On Tuesday evening last, as a policeman of the D division was going his rounds, between eight and nine o’clock, he was called to by some women residing at No.

 Mortlake Mystery. Workmen using a large stone shed on the bank of the Thames near Mortlake have been startled by strange noises, sharp as a rifle shot, as of something striking the corrugated iron roof.

 A Limehouse Ghost. The neighbourhood of Limehouse, like the Highlands, in the good old days of the bogles, has, it seems, been haunted for some months back by a most refractory and incorrigible phantom. The

 Chelsea’s Ghost. Three people see spectre that has banged on doors for years. Steps on stairs. Chelsea is still the haunt of at least one alarming ghost. This apparition has lately been terrifying the occupants

 An absurd story of a Ghost (similar to that in Cock-lane) has been raised with some artful design, at a house in Newcastle-court, near Temple-bar; and for some days a set of idle fellows, some

 Haunted house. We give place to the following to amuse our readers, not to impose on their credulity: They will consider it as a story similar to the Cock-lane ghost, or the dancing plates and

 Alarm in the Tower. For some weeks past a family residing in the Tower of London have been very much annoyed and disturbed by a variety of unpleasant and strange noises heard in different parts

 Noises in the night. Ghost story in Ongar Road. There are noises at night in a room at West London. Noises made by ghosts called George and Hines, says the tenant. Noises made by the