Category: Oxfordshire

 Shuffling phantom haunts a shop. Girl faints with fear. It was all quiet in the village shop as 15-year-old Adrienne Bramley went about her work yesterday. Then she heard an eerie sound. Adrienne fainted with

 Bicester. A Ghost Story. For some nights mysterious noises were heard in the bed-rooms of the Bell Inn, at Bicester. At times it resembled the scratchings and gnawings of a rat, and at other times

 Abingdon. A ghost scare. Once more is the peace of mind of the poorer townsfolk disturbed by the supposed reappearance of the Ock Street ghost, which caused so much alarm a few years ago. This

 A Ghost Story. The attention of the superstitious has been attracted to the phenomena which are declared ever and anon to manifest themselves in one of the Abingdon Alms houses, not indeed in “questionable shape,”

Spirit Rapping. (?) To the Editor of the Reading Mercury. Sir, – Will you please give the following account a place in your Paper? – At Pishill Bank, mid-way between Henley and Watlington, in an

 Notes from Oxford. There is no doubt that a spice of the supernatural adds wonderfully to the charm of a tale of a neighbourhood, and (where one is not required to sleep in it alone

 Seasonable and startling intelligence has just reached me from Horspath, a quiet but somewhat isolated village, well-known to many of your readers as situated within a couple of miles of the Wheatley railway station and

 Haunted events at the pet shop. Anxious pet shop owner Ira Wright has got something fishy going on in her store. The ghoulish goings-on led Mrs Wright to call in her local vicar in a

 37. Amongst such unaccountable things as these, we may reckon the strange passages that happened at Woodstock in Anno 1649. in the Manor-house there, when the Commissioners for surveying the Manor-house, Park, Deer, Woods, and