Category: Northamptonshire

 Sixteenth Century Knockings. A recently issued volume bearing principally upon the household events of an old English Catholic family, and principally recording their troubles in the difficult days of the Reformation period, is hardly the

 The ghosts of Rockingham. Mystery spirit and a pretty lady. Midnight searches. Which is the most haunted village in Leicestershire, or on its borders? A remarkable story has just come to light from Rockingham where,

 A Kettering Ghost Story. Spook in a modern council house? It has been a long time since Kettering furnished a ghost story, but something with spook-like tendencies has appeared lately. The eerie visitor has not

 Spirit Pelting [In the Northampton Petty Sessions] Scarcely had she [the last complainant] made her exit, when another good lady entered with a fair haired little girl, and besought their Worships’ advice under the following

The Barby Ghost. The quiet and sequestered village of Barby is all in an uproar, in consequence of its being believed, even by the least credulous, that the spirit of Sarah Webb either descends or

Things that go bump. By Nicola Pittam. Strange noises in the night have prompted a Blackthorn woman to appeal for help in tracing the history of her home – because she believes she has a

 Ghosts in West Street. by Rex Needle. Nothing is less conducive to thoughts of ghosts and poltergeists than the attractive modern front of a multiple grocery store in Oundle’s West Street. But take a peep

 What is described as a “ghost” is said to have made its appearance at a lonely house at Weedon, Northamptonshire. Villagers declare that its knocks are quite audible at night. Coventry Evening Telegraph, 3rd July

Council House “Ghost.” A ghost is reputed to walk at Weedon. Mr C.E. Gibbes told Daventry R.D.C. today that he had been given the definite assurance that a council house, built to fill up a