Some of the residents in New Wellington-street are discussing the alleged appearance of a ghost in the locality. It is nothing to see cushions move off chairs or doors open by themselves. Hull Daily Mail,
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Creech Castle, Taunton, Somerset (1987)
This ghost is almost one of the staff. The ghost which haunts a Taunton marine engineers has no qualms about letting staff know it’s around. It has even been known to flush the lavatory. And
Continue ReadingNew Zealand, Prince Edward’s Island, Canada (1910)
Weird Experiences. Mysterious happenings. “Light,” the official organ of Psychical Occult and Psychical Research, published in London, publishes the following in its August issues: More Spontaneous Phenomena. The Sunday Supplement of “The Daily Victoria Colonist”
Continue ReadingMoston, Manchester (1974)
Our House Is Haunted – Moston family. A frightened family believe their home in Winton Avenue, Moston, is haunted. Other people in the area have reported strange goings-on at night. Mrs Grace Kyte of Winton
Continue ReadingHeidelberg, Melbourne, Australia (1950)
Boy is questioned on Melbourne mystery tappings. Melbourne: Police investigating the mysterious nightly tappings on the walls of a house at Heidelberg for the past three weeks and stone-throwing on the roofs of other houses
Continue ReadingPort Louis, Mauritius (1937)
At 7 am on Monday, 21 September 1937, a stone fell on the roof of a bungalow in the rue Touraine, a street in Port Louis, a capital of the crowded little sub-tropical island of
Continue ReadingTurin, Piedmont, Italy (1900)
Chapter VIII. Haunted Houses. The following case of a haunted house is of special interest, as it was observed by Professor Lombroso, whom no one would suspect an excess of credulity, or of being a
Continue ReadingWorcester (1848)
A ghost in the nineteenth century! Serious gossip and old-womanish alarm appears to have existed for some time past in the regions of Carden-street, in this city, and at length to have established in the
Continue ReadingMagherintendry, Bushmills, County Antrim (1919)
“The talk of the town and district” – to use a familiar phrase – is about certain strange happenings of late at the residence and premises of Mr Thomas Elliott, joiner, Magherintendry. Within the past
Continue ReadingOrtona, Chieti, Italy (1925)
Power of Fairies. (By arrangement with London “Express.”) Rome, Saturday. – An attack of influenza left a girl of sixteen, named Emma Sharaglia, of Ortona, the possessor of psychic powers. She often falls into trances,
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