Category: Tyne and Wear

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

 For some days past the public mind in the neighbourhood of Walpole Street, South Shields, has been greatly exercised by the supposed appearances of a ghostly visitant in one of the dwellings of the living.

 Ghost Story. During the past week, the inmates of a double-tenanted house in Ingham Street, South Shields, have been thrown into a state of alarm by the supposed nocturnal visitation of some perturbed spirit, that

Gateshead Family May Call in Medium. Ghost of Bronte Street makes four quit home. A “poltergeist” has forced a widow and her three children to quit their home in Bronte Street, Gateshead. The Coulthard family

 ‘Ghost’ Drives Wallsend Family To Despair – and out of home. “The ghost” of Gordon Square, Wallsend, returned last night to the home of a troubled family, and after experiencing what they described to an

Ghost Hunting in Durham. The villagers of Birtley, near Newcastle, have been much excited of late by strange sounds heard in the house of a miner named Wild. The walls and roof have been pierced

 Sunderland Ghost “Interviewed” By A Spiritualist. Search for someone called “Annie” Tenants’ amazing story of mysterious noises near midnight. Like man with wooden leg. A ghost was interviewed by a spiritualist last night at No.

Ghosts or –? A creepy story from Sunderland. A correspondent writes: – During the last few weeks great alarm has been created in one of the streets in the west-end of Sunderland – off Chester

 A Ghost Story at North Shields. Regularly at midnight during last week, the family of Mr. J.J. Forrest, in Saville Street West, North Shields, after retiring to rest, were alarmed by mysterious knockings at the