Category: London

 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

The Ghostly Window Smashing. The hope was indulged in last week that the North Peckham ‘ghost’ had been ‘laid’; but it appears it has arisen again, and has been doing a little more window-smashing. The

 A Mystery. Mysterious stone throwing is getting so common a nuisance that it behoves the authorities to use a little more exertion, coupled with a slightly increased modicum of sagacity, to discover the perpetrators of

 Sounds that awed strong men. “Clanking Ghost” outdone. J.P. who saw a “spirit.” The story of the “Clanking Ghost” of Barnet is recalled by Mr Walter Stutters, a Justice of the Peace for Hertfordshire, who

 The Posta ghosta in the toasta. By Jack Lewis. Comedienne Adrienne Posta has a ghost in her toaster. She and her husband, songwriter Graham Bonnet, have discovered that their 300-year-old house in Highgate, London, is

 “Ghost” visits Norman Long. Norman Long is embarrassed. He is being “haunted.” And the ghost appears to be fond of shaving brushes, for they are whisked away during the night. When he is at home

 Extraordinary Circumstance. The Newgate Ghost. It appears that various spectral appearances took place in Newgate on Thursday night. Several of the criminals were on that night locked up under sentence of death, while the watchmen