Category: Tyne and Wear

 Mystery Night Marauder. House windows smashed at Millfield. Residents in Enderby Road, Millfield, are undergoing a stone-throwing ordeal which started on Monday night and continued last night. Windows of three houses were broken on Monday

 The extra viewer is a ghost. A ghost is haunting the Leek family – a ghost with modern tastes. For the home it has chosen to haunt is a three-year-old council flat in Redburn-view, North

 Things that go bump. ‘Scared stiff’ family say house is haunted. Things that go bump in the night have upset a family so much that none of them will stay in the house alone. The

 Ghosts at Jarrow. Extraordinary Proceedings. During the last eight or ten days the residents of the west side of William-street have been thrown into a state of considerable excitement and alarm through a quantity of

 Poltergeist nightmare. Tyneside couple tell of terror. A Tyneside couple talked today of the poltergeist which brought terror to their home. Their ordeal began when a toy donkey glided – unaided – down the stiars.

 Priests fail to dispell fears. Evil spirits give family bumps in the night. By Graeme Smith. A terrified family called in the Church of England to rid their home of evil spirits. Two clergymen exorcised

 Mysterious knocking sounds keep family awake. Vicar prays in house of strange noises. A vicar has said prayers in the house of a Scotswood family of five who are being troubled by mysterious knockings in

 Expert probes 2 hauntings. A “haunted flats” claim by two terrified women is to be investigated by a university lecturer. Dr John Belloff, lecturer in the psychology department of Edinburgh University, wants to find out

Bishop to pray in ‘haunted’ house. A bishop will visit a five-roomed council house in Sunderland tonight to conduct a special service aimed at ridding the home of a “troublesome spirit.” A family of five

 Ladykirk-road Ghost Laid. Everybody said they were haunted – those two houses in Ladykirk-road, Newcastle on Tyne, whose furniture moved mysteriously, doors jammed, and walls shivered. One morning Mrs Hogg, who lived in one of