Category: West Yorkshire

A haunted house at Steeton. No little sensation has been caused in the village of Steeton, near Keighley, by a story that a cottage house at Lane Ends is haunted. The house is occupied by

Ghostly visitor in Leeds house. Heard – and Seen. Strange tale of a tall man in black. Manifestations by a ghost in Leeds occurred last night, not, apparently, for the first time. The alleged ghost

 Ghostly goings-on at Meltham factory. A spook with a sense of mischief is keeping workers company on the night shift at a Meltham firm, it is claimed. Several employees of Hygiene Products UK claim to

 Excitement of a most remarkable character prevailed at Hebden Bridge fifty years ago in connection with certain mysterious knockings which were said to have been heard at a well-known residence, both by day and night. 

 Mystery at Hospital. Tappings in the night. Women patients at Seacroft Isolation Hospital have been alarmed recently by mysterious tappings in one of the wards, the origin of which could not be readily discovered. So

 “Laying” of a ghost at Leeds. A respectable family residing in Nippet Lane, Stony Rock, Leeds, have been for the past six or eight weeks seriously disturbed in mind by the extraordinary noises heard from

 Mysterious Stone Throwing at New Farnley. About the most mysterious affair that ever occurred at New Farnley took place in the Spring of 1900, when for about a week the Farnley Ironworks cricket pavilion was

 Knock, knock, and bits of coal.  Castleford mystery. Strange thuds in house puzzle experts. From our own correspondent, Castleford, Thursday. Castleford’s chief topic of discussion at the moment is a “mystery house,” where strange noises

Meanwood tenant braves a “ghost.” Not fearful in these days of house scarcity. It has been gravely whispered that one of the new Corporation houses in Bentley Lane, Meanwood, is haunted, and the more timid

A Knottingley Scare. Mysterious midnight shower of stones. The inhabitants of Knottingley are at present much concerned over some mysterious cases of stone throwing. Last Sunday evening (relates the Pontefract Express), showers of stones commenced