Category: London

The penny poltergeist – and the boy. By Sunday Dispatch Reporter. In an attempt to rid his 12-year-old son of the poltergeist he believes is following him, Joe Pearcey last night tried to sell four

 A haunted house so near to the great metropolis as Wandsworth is decidedly interesting. In the Surrey Magazine Mr W.H. Moyes says:  Those who take an interest in places which have been haunted for many

 House became haunted after woman’s suicide. With reference to The Haunting (Lynn News front page, last Friday), I experienced a haunting 50 years ago when I lived in London. At the time I and my

From the Whitehall, General and other Evening Papers, etc. Jan. 21. For some time past a great knocking having been heard in the night, at the officiating Parish Clerk’s of St Sepulchre’s, in Cock Lane,

 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