Category: South Yorkshire

 Ghosts. Ghost stories are always seasonable at Christmas, and an amusing story comes from Rockingham road, where a “knocking” phantom, it is stated, is in evidence. The police have been acquainted with the affair, but

 … The fog was probably responsible for a remarkable story told at Harley. Two farmers were travelling by car near Low Harley, where a stream runs alongside the road, about midnight on Monday, when, one

 Mystery sobbing sounds in a semi-detached Barnsley home. By Andrew MacKenzie. A week after he had moved into his house at Harbrough Hill Road, Barnsley, Yorkshire, in August 1965, Mr Michael White, aged 24, a

 Dreams and weird rappings. Wife’s presentiment. Curious incidents precede Sheffield tragedy. A series of mysterious “warnings,” the terrible dreams of a husband, and his wife’s presentiment – on the morning of the fatal day –

House of Mystery Weird Experiences in Vicarage Family leave in alarm. A Sheffield suburban vicarage has recently been the scene of certain visitations which have caused the family to seek another residence. The servants averred

 Phantom appears in city house. Uncanny happenings in a house in the Greystones road district of Ecclesall, Sheffield, have caused the occupants to wonder if it is haunted. The mysterious, unexplained incidents include the appearance

 Extraordinary Scenes At Hezzlehough, Near Wortley. Alleged “spiritual manifestations.” During the past few days the township of Wortley and its immediate surroundings have been much “exercised” over a series of extraordinary and unaccountable manifestations, of

 Extraordinary “Manifestations.” An incomprehensible freak on the part of a young girl, named Sibrey, was disclosed at the Rotherham Court House on Monday. The girl lately became servant in the house of a workman at

 Driven from their home by “ghosts.” From our own correspondent. Hebden Bridge, Thursday. Councillors and officals at Sowerby Bridge are facing one of their strangest jobs – what to do about a haunted cottage that

 Uproarious ghost. Bangs, crashes and stealthy steps. Dog thrown down the stairs. Bed seized and shaken. Oxspring, near Penistone, a village with few inhabitants, has a weird phenomenon troubling it. Some would have it that