Rannoch Moor MysteryRailway Workers’ ExperienceFurniture that moved. Reference was made, in a lecture in London last week by the assistant maintenance engineer of the southern area of the L. and N.E. Railway, to an application
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Thalassery, India (1931)
Tellicherry is now Thalassery. Strange Experiences of Retired Official. From India, the land of inexplicable mysteries, comes the strange story of a retired official, who is being bullied by ghosts. Poltergeists, or “noisy ghosts,” are
Continue ReadingThatto Heath, Lancashire (1923)
Unexplained Noises. Medium called in to solve house mystery. Amazing incidents, said to have been proved to be beyond the power of practical jokers, are reported from a house in Parliament Street, Thatto Heath, near
Continue ReadingGorefield, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (1923)
The phantom Samson of Goresfield. Flying washstand. Family beaten at a game of draughts. A correspondent wires: – The Cambridgeshire village of Gorefield, a few miles from Wisbech, is disturbed by the activities of a
Continue ReadingWooster, Ohio (1871)
A Ghost Story. In the city of Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, a respectable family, named Hoffman, have been haunted and tortured by malignant spirits since June, 1869. Detectives, clergymen, and spiritualists have all failed to
Continue ReadingBriston, Norfolk (1901)
If one went to an ironmonger’s and asked for a pound of “goblin tin tacks,” the shopman would doubtless think there was insanity in the line of the purchaser. However, at Breston, near Melton Constable,
Continue ReadingWyke, Bradford, West Yorkshire (1909)
Animated Yorkshire Furniture. Woman’s uncanny experiences. Lively cane chair – extraordinary story. Occurrences which, to say the least, are extremely uncanny, are taking place at the house of Mrs Priestly, 6 Church Street, Wykes, Bradford.
Continue ReadingAberdeen (1920)
Haunted house. Sergeant and 7 policemen search for spooks. In the heart of Aberdeen there is a haunted house that is attracting widespread interest. The tenants are Mr and Mrs Urquhart and a family of
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The Haunted Hanlons ‘Won’t Go Back’. Mr Lachlan Hanlon, the 31-year old Glasgow man who, with his wife and three-month-old daughter, fled from their room-and-kitchen home in Partick because they believe it is haunted, sat
Continue ReadingWillington Quay, Tyne and Wear (1972)
The Haunted Housewife. By Bill Owen. Housewife Janet Yates has a haunting fear of things that go bump in the night. A ghost which she says has been following her for the past eight years
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