Ghost rings a bell. Police puzzled by a spectre-haunted house at Blackheath. On Saturday night some malicious spirit disturbed the occupants of a little house in Blackheath by ringing the doorbell at intervals throughout the
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Florence, Tuscany, Italy (1867)
During the last days of December, 1867, at No. 14 Ghibellina Street, in Florence, subterranean noises began to be heard, and sudden and startling blows in the table around which the family was seated. Dishes
Continue ReadingPreston Bissett, Buckinghamshire (c.1878)
Local ghost stories, and strange occurrences. “Mysterious” writes: – Speaking of strange occurrences in the neighbourhood recalls to mind a singular premonition of death, which happened about twenty years ago. It was summertime, and on
Continue ReadingKirkcaldy, Fife (1958)
(This is next door to a case from 1972). Council house “ghost” terrifies family. A Kirkcaldy family are convinced their council house at Oaktree Square is haunted. They say footsteps have sounded on a stairway…
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Family flees the choking terror. An Indian family of seven fled from their Kirkcaldy home in the early hours of Tuesday morning claiming that the house was haunted. The “presence of spirits” in their Corporation
Continue ReadingSiddal, Halifax, West Yorkshire (1989)
Terror House. Vicar called to home as family flees poltergeist. By Nicola Megson. A vicar is to say prayers in a house a family claims is haunted by a poltergeist. The Rev David Humphries, vicar
Continue ReadingHilton, Shropshire (1987)
Christmas ghost waking up again. Licensee Paul Harris turned a ghastly shade of pale when he heard banging and bumping downstairs in his pub near Bridgnorth. The midnight manifestation was the latest act of the
Continue ReadingDudley, West Midlands (1995)
Ghost on Record. Report by Pete Wood. Bemused staff at a Dudley record shop have appealed for help in tracing the origins of a ghost which they claim is haunting their town centre premises. Liz
Continue ReadingSidcot, Somerset (1790s?)
About a hundred years ago, there lived in a cottage, still standing, nearly opposite the old Friends’ meeting-house at Sidcot, a real Conjurer of the old school. His name was Beecham, and he had a
Continue ReadingAshton Vale, Bristol (1947)
The strange case of the startled prefab. dwellers. Haunted granges and enchanted cottages are out of fashion, or maybe the housing shortage has hit the astral world. Now “things that go bump in the night”
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