A Great Ghost Hunt By Policemen. When we say this, we mean it, and it happened in this way. Between a fortnight and three weeks ago, strange knockings, continued from time to time, were heard
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Copley, West Yorkshire (1907)
Window-Smashing Mystery. Police and public puzzled at Copley. Residents at Copley, a suburb of Halifax, are much perplexed over a mysterious smashing of windows. Since Christmas, almost daily, and in the daylight as well as
Continue ReadingMoldgreen, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (1866)
Moldgreen. Something like a ghost story. On Sunday the inhabitants of Kilner-bank, Moldgreen, became much excited by the report that some unheard, unseen, unknown, and invisible persons had paid that locality a visit, but whether
Continue ReadingHalifax, West Yorkshire (1837)
A Carlton-Street “Ghost.” About the year 1837 a crowd of people might have been seen on several occasions gazing at a house in Carlton-street. Some were watching eagerly, desirous of detecting any possibility of fraud,
Continue ReadingAlmondbury, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire (1866)
A Ghost at Rose Villa. During the early part of last week much alarm and excitement was caused to the inmates of Rose Villa, Almondbury, the residence of Mr Bayliss, contractor for the Kirkburton Railway.
Continue ReadingBoroughbridge, West Yorkshire (1909)
A Girl Medium Mysterious Rappings and Noises A Boroughbridge Spiritualistic Sensation The residents in the old market town of Boroughbridge are at the present moment greatly perturbed by spiritualistic visitations, which have been in evidence
Continue ReadingLeeds, West Yorkshire (1936)
Mysterious Raps in a Leeds House Words “Spelled” Incidents set family wondering Strange sounds have been heard at a house in Walmsley Road, Leeds. It is a terrace house. At night when Mr and Mrs
Continue ReadingHuddersfield, West Yorkshire (1938)
“Knock! Knock!” at Huddersfield. Strange rappings in house. An “Evening Post” Reporter Investigates. From our own Reporter, Huddersfield, Friday. Mysterious knockings heard on the walls and doors of a Huddersfield terrace house in the early
Continue ReadingLidget Hill, Oakworth, West Yorkshire (1906)
A Scar Top “Ghost”. Old man terrorised by mysterious noises. A ghost story emanates from the district of Scar Top, in the Oakworth Parish, a lonely country place some four miles beyond Keighley, on the
Continue ReadingPudsey, West Yorkshire (1914)
Pictures stated to move in charwoman’s presence. Some amazing statements regarding Sarah Jane Ward, a Pudsey charwoman, were made at Leeds Assizes yesterday. Ward, who is only twenty-seven years of age, pleaded guilty to setting
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