There may be a poltergeist in your house. … The poltergeist knocks where he likes, but seems to prefer cottages and small houses. A typical visitation was in a country cottage at Longnor, Staffs, last
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Woodville, Staffordshire (1878)
The Ghost. The age of superstition has not yet passed away from the minds of some people in this neighbourhood. For the past week or ten days, it is said, some supernatural being has haunted
Continue ReadingAmington, Staffordshire (traditional)
Amington Hall for Sale. The Ghostly Drummer and his warning. It is announced that the Amington Hall estate, some two miles on the Warwickshire side of Tamworth, is to be sold by auction in lots
Continue ReadingBurntwood, Staffordshire (1979)
Bakery Ghost has the night shift in a bit of a tizzy! A noisy ghost has closed a bakery night shift – because girl workers are afraid to work after dark. The trouble began when
Continue ReadingBoscomoor, Penkridge, Staffordshire (1934)
Phantom figures in the night. Weird happenings in a derelict farmhouse. “Sunday Mercury” special. Finding myself within a few miles of the little hamlet of Boscamoor, near Penkridge, (writes a correspondent) – I decided to
Continue ReadingNewcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire (1993)
The garage ghost that’s driving staff crazy. By Andy Stanistreet. Garage staff are at their wits’ end trying to trace the cause of ghostly goings-on. Workers at Randles in Newcastle fear a poltergeist may be
Continue ReadingBurton upon Trent, Staffordshire (1997)
Haunted by Past. Families living on the site of Burton’s old general hospital today told how their new housing estate is among the most haunted in Britain. Residents in Gough Side, on the site of
Continue ReadingLichfield, Staffordshire (1997)
We uncover the ghostly secret of city centre shop. That’s the spirit. Report by Mike Lockley. The ghost of a tormented young girl, pleading for the return of her china doll, roams the corridors of
Continue ReadingRugeley, Staffordshire (1980s and 90s)
Sounds spooky Naughty nun spectre at town studio Music lovers using a recording studio in Rugeley have discovered the ‘truth is out there’, with claims the ghost of a naughty nun is causing havoc. Since
Continue ReadingWilnecote, Staffordshire (1984)
Chilling tales as the ghost-hunters gather. Behind the doors of No. 10… things that go bump in the night. Special report by Sue Robinson. Two former tenants of a small terraced council house in Wilnecote
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