Two up, two down blessing for estate agents with des res ghost! Exclusive by Sarah Stephens. A ghost-busting vicar was called to exorcise a North estate agency… after a three-month spate of horror-hauntings. Spooked staff
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Prudhoe, Northumberland (1990)
Family sends for the ghostbusters! Ghostbusters were called in to deal with things that went bump in the night at a 13th Century Northumberland house. The Lymburn family, who live at The Grange in Prudhoe,
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Dunter is a North Country word for the porpoise, which in 1575 was sold in the Newcastle market as food. The porpoise often visits the Tyne and Tees and plays havoc among the salmon by
Continue ReadingBlyth, Northumberland (1962)
‘Ghost’ walks when girls make wreaths. Blyth flower shop is ‘haunted’. The first job every morning for two Blyth shop girls who work in a main street florist’s is the making-up of wreaths. And as
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Family live in fear of a ghost. Burly ex-pitman Henry Walker doesn’t believe in ghosts. But after the nightly goings-on at his 24-year-old council semi even Mr Walker has to admit he might have been
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Nationalised ‘poltergeists’. Ornaments, fire-irons and pans at Castle Dene, Prudhoe, have been hurled across rooms of houses to the accompaniment of loud thuds but without apparent cause. Following complaints investigations were made by council officials
Continue ReadingEmbleton, Northumberland (1957)
The haunted house gets them down. Ex-RAF Sgt. Patrick Phelan, his wife and ten children are a worried family, for strange things are happening at night time in a 56-year-old house overlooking the sea which
Continue ReadingSeaton Sluice, Northumberland (1980)
Vicar’s ghost story. A vicar has backed up claims of ghostly goings-on in an old house. Grocer Harry Laidler called in the Rev. Robert Watkins after a “supernatural prank” at his old family home near
Continue ReadingNew Hartley, Blyth, Northumberland (1961 and 1974)
When things go bang and knock in the night That’s the trouble with Charlie the ghost. Charlie, a ghost that goes bang in the night, is terrorising families in three houses in Bristol Street, New
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Strange Knockings. After reading J.J. Brown’s letter headed “The night a spirit called,” I found it interesting to know someone else has had this experience also. My wife and I are often awakened during the
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