Category: Nottinghamshire

 A Haunted Vicarage..? Demolition men hear footsteps where there is no floor. Weird happenings at Calverton’s derelict old vicarage have set two demonlition workmen wondering if there is any truth in ghosts. For more than

 Mischievous Spooks. Pranks in Nottingham Tinsmith’s Shop. The Clutching Hand. King Charles’ Officers’ Mess Revisited. In view of the Nottingham Castle ghost story (exclusively given in Saturday’s Evening Post) and the consequent renewed interest in

Who knows if this is fictional or not. It’s quite detailed if it is. And it’s not particularly like other things I’ve found, although it does perfectly fit the mould.  Strange freaks in a Nottingham

 Family in fear of a “spook”. By Tony Robinson. A family are walking the streets at night – because they are scared of a ghost. Wayne Bickerton and his wife, Marie, take their nine-month-old daughter

Ghost of a chance for new home. Couple driven out by a spook win court ruling. A couple who fled from their council home because of bizarre ghostly happenings were today given leave to seek

 Eerie Chords at Dead of Night. Curious happenings in house.  Ghosts in the Night? Strange noises in a Nottingham house. Piano struck. Chord reminiscent of dead relative. The piano being played in the middle of

 Queer Happenings at a Country House. Of seasonable interest is the story, related at a festive gathering this week, and vouched for by the teller, of recent weird happenings at a country house near Nottingham.

 Strange Deception by a Servant Girl. For some time past, the Rev. T.A. Bolton and family, of New Basford, have been annoyed by numerous supposed malicious acts, which though slight in character, from their repetition

 Eerie Events As Ex-Ward is Razed. By Billy Phillips. Down at Hawtonville Hospital something stirs, with a tale of ghostly goings-on told this week by a demolition man who heard the type of knocking he