Night the rice flied. Customers fled from the antics of a poltergeist, in a Wolverhampton Chinese take-away. Owner of the Lotus House, Mr K. Lee said today that spoons, food and a torch flew
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Chelmsley Wood, West Midlands (1992)
Scared mum calls in vicar. Spooked. Family quits haunted home. Strange goings-on at a Birmingham flat where a man was murdered five years ago have caused a young mother to abandon her home in terror
Continue ReadingWest Bromwich, West Midlands (1978)
Mystery of ‘happenings’ among the fashions. Shop girls plan sit-in to trap a ghost By Edward Stephens. Shop assistants at a West Bromwich store are planning an all-night ghost-hunting session – after spooky carryings on.
Continue ReadingDudley, West Midlands (1990s)
Spooky Towers! Fears spark exorcism of flat ‘ghost’. An exorcism was held in a Black Country block of flats today after frightened tenants complained a ghost was disrupting their lives. Mr Brian Jones and his
Continue ReadingBrierley Hill, West Midlands (1882)
Superstition in the district. A rather curious affair has occurred this week in Brick-kiln-street, Brierley hill, and has been productive of a considerable amount of interest, curiosity, credulity, gullibility, and even superstition amongst some of
Continue ReadingBalsall Heath, Birmingham (1969)
‘Voodoo’ blaze mystery. Family hit by 27 fires in 3 months. A family who have been driven out of two homes by fires are blaming the blazes on voodoo. In three months Mr Eustace Waite
Continue ReadingCoventry, West Midlands (1926)
Mysterious stone-throwing. Mrs Hannah Mawson, 127 Windmill Road, Foleshill, pleaded “not Guilty” through Mr S.F. Snape, to comitting 10s damage to a roof at Foleshill, the property of William George Wagstaff, 278, Grange Road, Foleshill.
Continue ReadingWard End, Birmingham (1985)
Catapult riddle Mercury Staff Reporter. Ballistics experts from Aston University have been called in to try to help catch a catapult marksman who has been bombarding the windows of four Birmingham houses with stones for
Continue ReadingLadywood, Birmingham (1938)
“Despatch” reporter goes on a Birmingham ghost hunt. Brendan Clinch, Richard Walsh and John Forte pictured in the “haunted” bedroom. On the right is the chair said to have been hurled across the room. By
Continue ReadingMoseley, Birmingham (1952)
Police watch on mystery house. Noises, telephone calls – now a fire. A 35-year old Birmingham woman, the mother of four-year-old twins, yesterday asked for police protection for herself and her family, because of mysterious
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