The Tailor and the Ghost!! Horrible! Most horrible!! A letter from Norwich, dated Tuesday, contains the following:- “The City of Norwich has been for several days past thrown into very great alarm occasioned by strange
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King’s Lynn, Norfolk (1902)
Haunted House at Lynn. An Animated Bedstead. The declaration that a house in Windsor Terrace, King’s Lynn, is under the disturbing influences of a visitor from the invisible world has provided the town with a
Continue ReadingReedham, Norfolk (1810s)
Ventriloquist Ghost. To the Editor of the Norfolk Chronicle. Sir, – The account given of the Ghost at Syderstone in your paper of the 1st instant, induced me to think of addressing you, but I
Continue ReadingSwanton Novers, Norfolk (1919)
Oil “Well” in a Rectory. Petrol spurting from ceilings and walls. Sequel to an earth tremor. “Daily Express” Correspondent. Norwich, Friday Night. Swanton Novers Rectory, near Melton Constable, on Lord Hastings’ Norfolk estate, is providing
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Norfolk Mystery House.“A genuine oil well.”Government experts are confident, says a news agency, that there is a genuine oil well at Swanton Novers Rectory, and they state that the house must be pulled down because
Continue ReadingSyderstone, Fakenham, Norfolk (1833)
A Haunted House. Nothing is more characteristic of the present age than the advancement of true philosophy and sound reason over that terrifying superstition and foolish belief in supernatural agencies which so universally prevailed during
Continue ReadingYarmouth, Norfolk (1923)
Another Ghost? Mysterious Missiles in a Yarmouth Row. Exciting Incidents. Something akin to the scenes witnessed some time ago, when a report got abroad that ghosts had been seen in Yarmouth Churchyard, have disturbed Middlegate
Continue ReadingBriston, Norfolk (1901)
If one went to an ironmonger’s and asked for a pound of “goblin tin tacks,” the shopman would doubtless think there was insanity in the line of the purchaser. However, at Breston, near Melton Constable,
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