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.
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South Shields, Tyne and Wear (1870)
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
Continue ReadingGateshead, Tyne and Wear (1963)
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
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‘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
Continue ReadingBirtley, Tyne and Wear (1892)
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
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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.
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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
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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
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Blind city woman says ‘It’s eerie’Switch puzzle scares family. The Newcastle home of a blind woman and her two children has become a house of fear. Strange, unexplained things keep happening to the electric switches
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Spirit that can talk in Morse Code. A “ghost” which almost nightly knocks on the dividing wall of two houses in Jarrow continues to defy the efforts of the police and amateur investigators to run
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