Category: London

 The couple in fear of a firebug ghost. Graham Stringer and his wife Vera will sleep uneasily this weekend – if they sleep at all. They fear the ghost of a baby will set fire

 Couple say ghost is firebug. Ronald Atkins and his wife Ethel are certain they know the identity of the firebug who is making their life a nightmare. He’s a ghost, they say. The ghost of

 “The Rochester Row Ghost.”  Mysterious shower of bricks. A well-dressed young man named George Champion, living at 64, Rochester-row, Westminster, appeared to summons before Mr de Rutzen, at the Westminster Police Court yesterday, charging him

 Things that go bump in the market. The things that go bump in the night are getting cheeky… they are getting up to their tricks in broad daylight. And with hair-raising results. For two months,

 A ghost who switches on the tv set. Two policemen and a spiritualist spent a night in a haunted house last night, investigating the case of a noisy ghost. The ghost switches on the television

 A Brixton Ghost Story. A correspondent of the Spiritualist, writing from an address in South London, communicates to that journal the following story, which he adduces as evidence of the reality of spiritual phenomena: – 

 Mystery of Bells. Uncanny ringing puzzles a London household. Police search futile. From the tenants of a house in Shepherd’s Bush (West London), The Weekly Dispatch received a narration of [illegible] ringing of bells, which

Shoes that walk alone. A shop of odd fear. In a very ordinary street in Kilburn, London, is a shoemaker’s shop where shoes walk – without feet in them. That’s not the only strange thing

Boy’s Magnetic Power. Mystery of Moving Chairs. Scientists and an “unruly spirit”. Special tests are being arranged at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Queensberry Place, London, to find out if little Douglas Drew (8),

 Mysterious Circumstance. For the last fortnight the family of Mr Chapman, No. 6, Gloucester-street, Commercial-road, have been daily thrown into the greatest confusion and alarm by dreadful moanings and loud shrieks of “Murder! Murder!” and