An Extraordinary Ghost Story from Madeley Wood. In the nineteenth century we have many strange discoveries, new theories started, old ones ridiculed to be re-established by another generation, the greatest assembly of the greatest of
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Hilton, Shropshire (1987)
Christmas ghost waking up again. Licensee Paul Harris turned a ghastly shade of pale when he heard banging and bumping downstairs in his pub near Bridgnorth. The midnight manifestation was the latest act of the
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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
Continue ReadingCruckton, 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
Continue ReadingShrewsbury, Shropshire (1883)
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
Continue ReadingLoppington, Wem, Shropshire (1883)
Remarkable Occurrences Near Ellesmere. A Farm House Partially Wrecked. A series of remarkable occurrences, which have caused great excitement in the whole neighbourhood between Ellesmere, Wem, and Shrewsbury, are said to have taken place at
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