Another relation in this kind, I have sent me in a letter by an ingenious and learned clergyman of Wiltshire, who had given me the relation before, by word of mouth. It is as follows.
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Salford, Greater Manchester (1921)
“Ghost” that hammers. Salford Householders’ Sleepless Nights. A “ghost” which plays a tatoo on the bedrails and beats a table as a drummer would a drum is causing considerable alarm in Salford. It concentrates its
Continue ReadingMinehead, Somerset (1995)
Police swoop on the furniture phantom. Ghostbuster Bill talks it over with the troubled spirit of 1896. By Andy Smith and Chris Rundle. Halloween came early for Brenda Gracey after a spooky intruder created a
Continue ReadingAspenshaw, Derbyshire (1820s)
“The Ghost of Aspenshaw.” Believers in witchcraft and other kinds of mysterious agencies to bring various causes into effect, are happily not so numerous as evidently they were some 50 or 60 years ago, although
Continue ReadingRochester, Kent (1976)
A ‘Ghost’ Gives Family The Shivers. By Marion Jenkins. A family thought they were imagining things that went bump in the night. But then more and more weird things started happening in the Rochester house.
Continue ReadingCleethorpes, Lincolnshire (1921)
Town Talk. By “The man in the street.” Cleethorpes can now be considered quite up-to-date. It has got a ghost. A lady living on the Kingsway was so disturbed the other evening by weird rat-tats
Continue ReadingChatham, Kent (1940s and 50s)
‘Ghosts’ drive woman from her home. Families disturbed at night by mysterious noises. Do you believe in ghosts? No! Then find some other explanation for phenomena which have driven a Chatham woman away from her
Continue ReadingCallington, Cornwall (1937)
(This has a kind of squatchy vibe, but also sounds coming from different areas and the sound of stones on a roof… it surely has poltergeist-like features reported? and the knockers are of course rather
Continue ReadingMilan, Lombardy, Italy (1921)
The Dancing Picture. Strange Tricks in a Haunted House. Milan, August 15th. Troops were called out on Tuesday night to reduce to order peasants who were engaged in a faction fight. The disturbance took place
Continue ReadingBallymakea, County Clare (1946)
Case of a cheeky poltergeist. Throws butter around. A farmhouse in the Ballymakea district of Mullagh, County Clare, is having poltergeist trouble. If the poltergeist doesn’t go, a full clerical investigation is to be made.
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