Category: London

 Stone-throwing spirits at Kingston. From our special reporter. Kingston-on-Thames, Tuesday night.  A paragraph in yesterday’s Daily Telegraph set forth that for a week past numbers of shop windows had been smashed at Hampton Wick by

 ‘Ghost’ Plays Jokes. Six years ago Brandon Davies, the picture-dealer with a gallery in Grosvenor-street, Mayfair, crashed mysteriously to his death from a window of his home. After his death his gallery, once filled with

 The Peckham Ghost.  There have been no more ghostly visitations in the Sumner Road, Peckham, since the recent capture of the mischievous little girl Nolls. Though it is impossible to credit her with all the

     Story of ‘flashing lights and heavy footsteps’. Woman ‘forced to flee’ from strange noises in council house at New Addington. Although they are very sceptical about stories circulating in New Addington concerning “supernatural”

The house of strange happenings. By George Fallows and Douglas Bence. A family is living in fear of strange goings-on that are driving them from their home. For two weeks, they have been terrorised by

 Poltergeist pranks in Piccadilly? London (A.A.P.) Tenants in London’s fashionable Burlington Arcade in Piccadilly are wondering if the arcade has become the home of poltergeists, the “Daily Telegraph” said yesterday. Scotland Yard detectives, after an

 Two ghosts of cottage number 13. Former home of a murderer. Footsteps and a woman in grey. Two ghosts, one a benevolent spirit, the other an evil one, haunt an old, creeper-clad house facing Three

 Half a house haunted. Ghostly rappings. Half a house at Bow – the lower half – is reputed to be haunted in consequence of a nightly performance of ghostly rappings. In the top half of

 A Ghost Story. Some few weeks ago, a small cottage, in the neighbourhood of Yiewsley, occupied by a poor man, his wife, and an only daughter, the latter in ill-health, was the theme of considerable

Shirley’s private spook gets rough. Everywhere that Shirley goes that tapping is sure to follow. And lately it has been getting more violent. It began with a creak three weeks ago as 15-year-old Shirley Hitchings