Haunted House. The inhabitants of Northwood Green, near Wem, Cambridgeshire [sic, evidently Shropshire] are in the utmost consternation, in consequence of some extraordinary disturbances in a house near the turnpike. Brick bats, stones, and lumps
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Cruckton, Shropshire (1909)
Haunted Wardrobe. Destructive “Ghost” Near Shrewsbury. Trusers cut to ribbons [sic] Tar in the cream. A series of extraordinary tricks has been perpetrated on a small-holding at Cruckton, near Shrewsbury, which those most closely concerned
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as part of an article about the Wem case: Shrewsbury, indeed, had a ghostly trouble of its own. For six whole months a gentleman and his family residing in the Cherry Orchard have been kept
Continue ReadingMadeley, Shropshire (1952)
Candles vanish – one “floated around the room”. Strange happenings at a Madeley house. Because of strange occurrences for which they are unable to account a 65-year-old widow, her granddaughter and the granddaughter’s husband have
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Loppington. Delusion or Illusion: A Strange Story. A series of occurrences which have caused great excitement in the neighbourhood of Loppington have just taken place. At a secluded farm called “The Woods,” which is about
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