‘Ghost’ Haunting Banbury Shop. Two years of pranks by ‘Harry Hunt’. For more than two years Harry Hunt has persistently annoyed the staff of a dress shop with his practical jokes. But they cannot lay
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Little Tew, Deddington, Oxfordshire (1838)
The Little Tew Ghost; or Another Cock Lane Story. Under this head, appeared the following letter in the Oxford Herald of Saturday last, which we recommend to those skilled in the science of Demonology:- After
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A Ghost Story in Oxfordshire. Considerable excitement has prevailed for several days at Beckley, in this county, and the adjoining villages, occasioned by a report which has been pretty extensively circulated, that a “ghost” had
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Spirit Rappings at Bampton, Oxfordshire, Two Hundred Years Ago. I found the following strange story in an old book published in 1689. It is entitled;- “A strange relation touching the family of one Captain Wood,
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