Category: Manchester

There’s a ghost in my house! Alkrington grandmother Mrs Margaret Barlow did not stand a ghost of a chance when things started to go bump in the night. Only weeks after she moved into her

 Family fear being gassed by a ghost. By David Bainton. A fat ghost who fiddles with the gas taps has put a Salford family in fear of their lives. And they have been driven to

 Great excitement prevails in the village of Cheadle on account of an old house in the vicinity which is said to be haunted. Loud knockings on the wall, moaning, rustling of dresses, and trampling of

A Ghost Story. At the latter end of last and the commencement of the present week, the most strange stories were told of a ghost that had fixed its nightly abode in the office of

 Ghost with a stoop. Family of five terrorised. Hasty retreat. Mistaken for a burglar! A family of five have been driven from their home at Cheadle, near Manchester, by the strange behaviour of a ghost,

 Hallowe’en ghost turns family out. Finally the ghost of Cumberland Avenue has driven a family out of its home. For last night – Hallowe’en – was the worst in its three-week campaign of terror. And

Mad monk is driving us out. Exclusive by Claire Stephenson. A family claim they are being driven out of their home – by the ghost of a mad monk. They say the terrifying apparition has

 Home wrecked by “ghost” Society to hold inquiry. The story of a Manchester man who was almost ruined by a ghost, which wrecked his home, terrified the occupants, and caused material damage amounting to £200