Category: Tyne and Wear

A Yorkshire Poltergeist. As a pendant to my notes of Saturday on the Keighley Spiritualists, a correspondent sends the following account of a Yorkshire “poltergeist,” whose doings surpassed even those of the famous Cock Lane

 Haunted house at East Boldon. During the last fortnight there has been considerable excitement in East Boldon, owing to the house of a gentleman residing there having been visited by a ghost. Every night strange

 Vince didn’t believe in ghosts… Selling papers has become a spirited business for newsagent Vince Lewis. He didn’t believe in ghosts… until things began to go bump as he served morning rush hour customers at

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 Something going bonk in the night! Artist Lynn Arkley gets that tingling feeling when she’s been made love to… and she doesn’t like it. For divorcee Lynn claims the lover is a ghost. Now she

 Ghost drives out seven in terror. A family of seven say they have been driven out of their council-house by a ghost. They were so terrified after two weeks of mysterious happenings that they demanded

 A Ghost Story. Yesterday, Mrs Barbara Coltman, shipowner, who did not appear, but who was represented by Mr Wheldon, solicitor, was summoned before the South Shields Bench by Mr George Gibson, shipowner, of the same

 Traditions and mysteries of the north. V. The haunted house at Willington. In these papers we have dealt hitherto with matters which belonged to the natural, and which could be accounted for by perfectly natural

 Three girls go on the trail of ghosts. A young South Shields housewife has been surprised to hear that her house was “haunted” 20 years ago. Three grammar school girls are going to call on