A ‘ghost’ takes to council house. By Ray King. Heavy footsteps marched across the floor of a council house bedroom early today… but the room was empty. Downstairs 18-year-old Bob Stoker, who had been helping
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Milnrow, Rochdale, Greater Manchester (1995)
It’s been raining every day for 10 months – claim. Vicar called to a home that leaks. By John Ripley. It’s been raining in every day for the past 10 months for the Garner family.
Continue ReadingMiddleton, Greater Manchester (1968)
A house in fear of the ‘Thing’. By a Staff Reporter. Housewife Mrs Dorothy Moulton ran out of her Middleton council house in fear today as “The Thing” struck again. “The Thing” has been haunting
Continue ReadingHindley, Greater Manchester (1969)
That ghost will have to leave, decides Sarah. Pensioner Mrs Sarah Mayor’s lodger is almost always the perfect gentleman. He always keeps himself to himself and never leaves the house untidy. In fact, he had
Continue ReadingAlkrington, Manchester (1983)
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
Continue ReadingSalford, Greater Manchester (1972)
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
Continue ReadingMoston, Manchester (1974)
Our House Is Haunted – Moston family. A frightened family believe their home in Winton Avenue, Moston, is haunted. Other people in the area have reported strange goings-on at night. Mrs Grace Kyte of Winton
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The Skull House. An account has been given to the public (Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire), of the Skull House, otherwise Timberbottom, in Turton. We went thither, and examined the skulls. One of them is much
Continue ReadingCheadle, Manchester (1858)
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
Continue ReadingManchester (1835)
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
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