Category: West Midlands

 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.

 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

 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

‘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

 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.

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

 “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

 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

 ‘Snowy’ apparition seen praying. MP asked to help family to flee ghost. An MP has been called in to help a West Bromwich family escape a ghostly figure which they claim is haunting their house

 Home has ‘crying ghost’. A Smethwick couple are considering calling in the clergy to conduct an exorcism. They believe their home is haunted by a “crying” ghost. Mrs Jayne Egginton and her husband, Alan, of