All so mysterious for the Busbys. Birmingham Post Chipping Norton Correspondent. In the Cotswold village of Over Norton, Oxfordshire – population 450 – tongues have been wagging about the strange happenings in a council house
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Campbeltown, Argyll and Bute (1963)
A ghost on the prowl. I’ll quit town says mother. By Bill Bryant. A woman wants to flee a Scots town because she is convinced her dead mother is haunting her. Thuds in the night
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Fred the ghost just won’t budge. One of Britain’s top ghost hunters has been called in by a couple whose council home is haunted by a stubborn spirit. For nearly two years George and Lynda
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“Ghost” baffles police. Tappings in a wall. From our own correspondent. Geneva, Friday. Basle has been excited for days over a supposed haunted house in Utengasse, and crowds have kept watch before the building, in
Continue ReadingWolverhampton, West Midlands (1987)
Woman flees ‘haunted’ flat. A Midlands woman has fled her tower block home in terror convinced that her flat is haunted. Michelle Bash claims that plates, pictures and clocks fly around the rooms, furniture rearranges
Continue ReadingUdhagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, India (1897)
Spooks Pitch Rocks. They do in the champion ghost story from India. The police called in. They could do nothing and sent for a professional devil-driver to cure a ghost-a[…]ed girl. Madras, India, July 10.
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Aspects of Life In Paris. […] I shall not attempt to describe the inhabitants of this zone: any one who has ever gone to Five Points can form a pretty accurate idea of its squalor,
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Promenade. With John Deighton. The festive season is the time for ghost stories… and strange things have been happening at the home of Mrs Beryl France, who lives with her 18-year-old daughter Wendy and her
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Who’s the thing of the castle? Spooked staff blame ghost for creepy happenings at Upnor. By John Plunkett. A ghost is being blamed for some alarming disturbances at Upnor Castle. Spooked security guards can find
Continue ReadingAchindarroch, Highland (1943)
The Haunted Farm-house. Written and illustrated by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. Few with any appreciable knowledge of Scotland have not heard of Glen Duror, that steep and comparatively short valley running inland from the roadside at
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