The Merry Maid Report compiled by Joe Riley. One of our most amazing ghost stories – and one which is still happening – comes from a couple in Liverpool 13. They ask for their names
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Kirkby, Merseyside (1971)
New bid to lay ghost of Tedbury Close. A church minister will to-night visit a three-storey block of flats in Kirkby to exorcise a ghost which has been frightening families there. The residents in Tedbury
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Family flee nightmare of their haunted house. Too scared to go home. By Val Woan. A young Liverpool family say they have been frightened from their home by a ghostly tormentor. Arthur and Kathryn Rea,
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Liverpool’s Haunted House Grim stories of strange visitations The old hall near the Botanic Gardens on the Edge-lane estate is being demolished, and so one of the last remaining historical relics of Liverpool disappears. At
Continue ReadingWoolton, Liverpool (1974)
The ghost walks in Quarry Street. Ambulancemen tell of terror in training room. Story by Steve Oldfield. Pictures by Eddie Barford. Ambulancemen, who reckoned they had seen it all, are having to face up to
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Waiting for a ghost. By Chris Oxley. All last night, I sat up waiting to meet the ghost of Penny Lane. But he didn’t keep the appointment. With floorboards for a bed and a plank
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Bogeyman scares a family. A chilling series of strange coincidences… By Mark Thomas. The bogeyman in two-years-old Bobby Higgins’ bedroom is a bit different from the ones most toddlers live with – for he has
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The ghostly stranger at no. 54. Couple tell of terror which drove them out. A terrified young Liverpool couple say they have been driven out of their new home by a ghost. When water pipes
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Has malicious poltergeist followed them? Ghost terrorises elderly couple. An elderly couple who moved to Runcorn recently told this week of the nights of terror that led them to flee their former home in Norris
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Mischievous ghost of Christmas past. Joe Riley with a spine-chilling tale about a poltergeist. Only now can the story be told. Because only now has the poltergeist which brought terror to a group of Formby
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