Category: Somerset

 Mother leaves ‘haunted’ house after a month. Family flees poltergeist. By Emma Frampton. A Shepton Mallet mother has been forced to leave the home where she lived for only a few weeks, because of suspected

The shocking case of haywire house. Frank’s cottage keeps blowing a fuse. Pensioner Frank Pattemore is being forced to return to the dark ages until engineers sort out electrical problems at his cottage in Somerton.

 Ghost who is making a splash. Herald Reporter. Plumber John Kemp does not usually believe in ghosts. But the spooky goings-on in a council house are making him suspicious. Something is making the water overflow

 Salon where hair stands on end. Staff at a hairdressing salon fear the place may be haunted. Several weird happenings at the New Moon Salon in North Street, Wellington have been enough to make people’s

 Uncanny hauntings. Paranormal door-banging. By H.J. Channon. Four years ago I wrote a series of articles for the Herald on uncanny hauntings. One house in particular, not three miles from Taunton, interested me. I got

 When things keep on disappearing… Strange things happen in dustman Paul Beechinor’s terraced council home. He keeps losing things. And he’s a worried man. For he believes they may have been spirited away by poltergeists.

 999! A ghost is chasing me… and even the law is spooked. Police couldn’t believe it when a terrified 999 caller pleaded: Help! I’m being attacked by a ghost! PC Bob Corrick dashed to the

 Pilton’s Ghostly Story. Ghostly footsteps in the early hours of the morning are disturbing a Pilton woman in her 300-year-old cottage. Mrs Hilda Cousins and her husband moved into ‘Tumbledown,’ Mount Pleasnat, 12 months ago

 A Somerset “Witch” Exposed. In view of the examinations which are at present being made at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, South Kensington, into the mysterious powers of the Roumanian poltergeist girl, Eleonore Zugan,