Sheriff Small Debt Court – Wednesday. (Before Sheriff Tennent). Mysterious Water Supply. Among the cases before the Court today was one of rather a novel and puzzling kind, which elicited a great deal of interest.
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Paisley, Renfrewshire (1969)
A council house family say: We’ve got a ghost. A young couple and their four children have been living in fear since “ghosts” moved into their home. In three weeks 26-year-old Mrs Margaret Mullen has
Continue ReadingPaisley, Renfrewshire (1818)
Haunted House. For about two months the inhabitants of a three-story house, in Lady-lane of Paisley, were alarmed with an unusual sound in the night time. At first it created no great sensation, it having
Continue ReadingPaisley, Renfrewshire (1996)
Spooked! Lecturer tells of ghostly goings-on at college. By Linda McConnell. Ghostly goings-on are spooking staff and students at Paisley’s Reid Kerr College. And yesterday a lecturer lifted the lid on the strange hauntings. Alan
Continue ReadingErskine, Renfrewshire (1696)
The Case of Christian Shaw. Tomented by Renfrewshire Witches. In February 1697, the Scottish Privy Council held an inquiry on the case of Christian Shaw, a girl of eleven, daughter of the laird of Bargarran,
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A Haunted House. The Greenock correspondent of the North British Mail says, “It will scarcely be credited, but it is not the less true, that a rumour is afloat that a garret house in a
Continue ReadingPort Glasgow, Renfrewshire (1864)
A Ghost at Port-Glasgow. A gentleman was kind enough to leave a communication at our office on Monday, acquainting us that during the past few weeks a family residing in an appartment in a house
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