Mysterious happenings at ‘bus depot. “Invisible hands” hurl stones. Night workers employed at Winlaton ‘Bus Depot are under the impression that the building may be haunted. They say they do not believe in ghosts, but
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Toulouse, Occitania, France (1732)
Letters from Toulouse in France inform us, that a young woman now of that city, but born in a village called Grand-Mall in the same Diocese, is haunted by an invisible man, which has almost
Continue ReadingWhitehall Place, London (1880s)
Before his return to London [from Geanies], however, Professor Romanes received an appeal for aid in a somewhat similar case of disturbance. The Secretary of the National Liberal Club in Whitehall Place (established in 1882)
Continue ReadingGeanies, Highland (1880s)
“From 1882 to 1890 Mr. Romanes rented Geanies, a beautiful place overlooking the Moray Firth. It belongs to a cousin of the Romanes family, Captain Murray, of the 81st Regiment. Captain Murray’s mother and sisters
Continue ReadingBenavente, Spain (1500s)
LVD. In good sooth, I never heard of a merrier Divell [referring to that in Salamanca]: but afore you passe any further, I will tell you of two things which both happened in this same
Continue ReadingWeinsberg, Germany (c.1820s)
(The castle is now known as Burgruine Weibertreu.) George Widemann relates a story concerning Weinsberg, in his Calendar, which Cousins repeats in his Swabian Chronicle: – Several years before the casatle of Weinsberg was destroyed,
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Some Facts Relating To Weinsberg. There is a house at Weinsberg, that, some thirty years ago, was inhabited by a vine-dresser, named Bayer; it had formerly been used as a wine-press, but no traces of
Continue ReadingClamps-in-the-Wood, Derbyshire (1850s and previously)
Berg-geister. – Clamps-in-the-Wood. By William Howitt. It is a curious question to what extent variety of spirits reach in the invisible world. The variety of animated life in the world is infinite, measuring from the
Continue ReadingAstley Abbotts, Shropshire (1950)
Is an Astley Abbotts cottage haunted? The tune ‘December, it always happens in December’ is becoming convincing to the villagers of Astley Abbotts. They are, perhaps, beginning to wonder whether funny things happen every December.
Continue ReadingBlaydon, Tyne and Wear (1901)
“Ghost” hunt near Blaydon. There was an alleged haunted house near Blaydon, occupied by a widow and her family. Sounds of mysterious tappings had been heard recently. Offers to assist the old lady in “laying
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