Category: West Midlands

 Medium Investigates Birmingham Cellar Raps. Rappings on the floor of a house in Highfield-road, Washwood Heath, Birmingham, have led to excavations in the cellar, to see if there is evidence of a tragedy it is

 Hissing “Ghost” at Dudley. Chairs hurled across room. Beds shaken. ‘Investigator’ bolts from house. From a Gazette Correspondent. Dudley, Thursday. A Kates Hill family named Hancocks, residing at 16a, Hill-street, in the poorer part of

 Strange Story of a Haunted House. A strange story of a haunted house in the Whitmore Reans district of the town of Wolverhampton is going the round and vouched for as true fact. Some time

Mystery Knocks Story of Police Visit to Walsall House. What is the mystery lying behind the weird midnight noises that have been alarming people in the Leamore district of Walsall? When an Evening Despatch  reporter

Extraordinary Occurrence. The Birmingham Journal says, “A very curious, and, as yet, inexplicable occurrence, has, within the present week, furnished matter for the wonder of our townsmen. On Tuesday, the 28th ult. about half-past 12

 Window Smashing Extraordinary. A Handsworth Bombardment. A singular charge of window smashing was heard at the Handsworth Police Court, before Messrs. J I Parkes and A Pointon, and Dr Parkes, to-day. The defendants were Sidney

 Mysterious Stone Throwing. The idle, mischievous practice of stone throwing has been developed into an art in the unromantic hamlet of Smethwick. These are not days for original ghosts, they have ceased to trouble our

A ‘Voice’ From Beyond…? Ghostly knocking noises in a front bedroom have caused a Walsall family to wonder whether their home is haunted by a poltergeist. Recently the police have made an unsuccessful effort to

 Stone-Throwing Extraordinary. About a month since, writes a correspondent, one of those unaccountable cases of stone-throwing occurred at a house situate at Potter’s Hill, Aston, and in the occupation of Mr Dolman, coal merchant, causing