Category: West Yorkshire

 A Ghost. Some of the good folks of Wakefield have, during the last few days, been frightened out of their propriety by a ghost story. It appears that in a house near the bottom of

  Leeds warehouse fire. Leeds Fire Brigade was occupied for more than an hour last night at a fire which destroyed a large quantity of electrical goods in the basement of a warehouse occupied by

 The Wetherby Ghost. Spectre of a young lady seated in an arm chair. A fondness for frying ham. The tenant’s remark: “What I have seen I have seen”! (By our special correspondent). “Happen you’ve come

I imagine this could be ‘The Greaves’. Midgley Mystery. Curious visitation at ancient homestead. Unaccountable rappings. The superstitious and those believing in the uncanny who reside in Midgley have had a great topic for their

 Dewsbury. Novel Method of Ejectment. During the last week, the inhabitants of Dewsbury and its neighbourhood have been labouring under great excitement, terror, and alarm, on account of a house, situated at Kilncroft, Dewsbury, occupied

 Armed housewives wait for Gentle George the ghost. Evening Post Reporter. Hollow-eyed through lack of sleep, two Leeds housewives told me today how they had spent last night sat up armed with pokers, waiting for

Mysterious fire at Greengates. The Bradford Fire Brigade turned out this afternoon to an outbreak at Walmer House, Greengates, the residence of Mr Beevers. Flames were discovered in different parts of the house, and these

A singular, yet melancholy, accident lately happened at Blackshaw, near Stansfield. The following are the particulars, which plainly demonstrate that the age of superstition is not yet passed. An aged man, of the name of

 A Haunted House. Silly Rumour. Duringn the present week, Heckmondwike has been turned upside down by the unexpected visit of an apparition, said to be the spirit of a drayman, named Lamb, who, when alive,

 Grange Moor. A Phantom Woman’s Antics. Village gossippers have been diligently circulating a story about a ghost, which is said to have made its appearance at the house of a young married couple at Grange