Category: London

 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

Poltergeist follows me everywhere, says Shirley. Everywhere that 15-year-old Shirley Hitchings goes – so she said yesterday – a poltergeist goes too. You can tell when the poltergeist is there by the tapping…. The tapping,

Larry, The Mischievous Ghost. He started fire in my home, says Mr Stringer. “Evening News” Reporter. Larry, the Easter poltergeist was at work again today in a Camberwell house. Firemen were called for the 12th

 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: –