Category: Merseyside

Ghost or Joker?  Southport police have a rather curious matter in hand. The staff in a local architect’s office is considerably puzzled by the fact that on several occasions the furniture and other things have

 Supernatural Window breaking. Our readers may recollect what a panic was excited a few years ago, by the mysterious breaking of windows in a house in John street, in this town. The house was an

 Psychic – and Poltergeist. Sidelights on ‘ghost’ and other stories; incidents without explanation. By an Echo ghost seeker. Merseyside is, just now, undergoing one of those periodical waves of ‘psychic’ experiences which, once every decade

 Maid’s night of terror. Another story of haunted house “Shapeless mass” Things flung about the bedroom. The experiences of a Liverpool family in a supposedly “haunted” house have prompted a Liverpool woman to tell a

 Spirited probe into hospital fire riddle. By Tony Martin. Health chiefs probing a fire at a Merseyside hospital have been told to bring in the ghostbusters. Walton Hospital bosses are baffled by a fire which

 Haunted cafe owners are sceptical. But ex-tenants tell of noises in the night. A practical demonstration of laying a ghost would seem to have been carried out by Mr A. Houldsworth, of the Beehive Cafe,

 An Everton Ghost Story. Considerable commotion was caused yesterday in William Henry-street, Everton, on a rumour that a sort of “spring-heel Jack” was pursuing his antics in that neighbourhood. The story, as it was passed

Night visitor was a ghost. Priest is asked to bless a council house. Western Daily Press Reporter. A council house tenant in Newton-le-Willows, Lancs, fell and injured her jaw – after meeting a ghost outside

 Mysterious stone throwing at Seacombe. For some time past the inhabitants of Church-road, Bellevue-road, and other adjacent parts of these usually quiet portions of the ancient village of Seacombe-cum-Poulton have been considerably exercised in their

 Spooks who throw bricks. The advent of “spooks” in St. Helens has made things lively there. The ghostly ones made their presence felt by mysterious stone-throwing. Folks near Kirkland-street have seen half-bricks, potatoes, cinders, and