Ghostly’ moving pictures And the clock runs on Spirit’s disapproval of girl’s late hours Restless nights Queer black country happenings Two families in the Black Country are becoming nerve-wracked by what they believe to be
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Loughborough, Leicestershire (1842)
Loughborough. A Ghost. A report prevails in the town that a supernatural visitant is in the habit of playing nocturnal tricks at a house of call on the Derby Road. Three or four gentlemen are
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A Ghost Story! The usually quiet town of Melksham has lately been thrown into a state of some confusion by the repeated visits of a poor ghost to the Primitive Methodist Chapel, at Melksham Forest.
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A Haunted House. It has been so long since a real case of a house being haunted has occurred, that many deemed the fashion had become entirely extinct. It seems that there is a lingering
Continue ReadingPerth Amboy, New Jersey, USA (1908)
Strange noise like rappings in this house. Residents in Southern Section of the City Greatly Interested in What Seems Like Mystery. Heard by a large party. Policeman in searching the house had the rapping under
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Unusual Physical Phenomena. By Jane R Griffing. The following record is by a lady who was well known to Dr Richard Hodgson and whom he regarded as a competent witness. He reported from her several
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For several days past the family of Signor Pasquali, living in the Calle Goldoni, Venice, has been much upset by a series of mysterious happenings. Violent blows, repeated at long intervals, have made the walls
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Queer happenings at a haunted house in Askam. “Happy” Harry Hodgson is searching for a spiritualist to rid his four-roomed 90-years-old home at Askam of the “ghosts” which have been plaguing his family for the
Continue ReadingWalsall, West Midlands (1995)
Exorcist told to evict ghosts with high spirits. Families in a Midland council tower block have taken desperate steps to evict unwanted tenants by calling in a Ghostbuster. Almost everyone living in Victoria House, at
Continue ReadingCinderford, Gloucestershire (1999)
Family flee home after ghost terror. By Phil Norris. A family of five have fled their home in the Forest of Dean after being plagued by phantom noises and ghostly apparitions. The Davies family, who
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