Category: West Yorkshire

 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

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

 Coal from the sky. Weird happenings in the Hope Hall district. Black diamonds roll mysteriously downstairs. Is it a spook? Spiritualists on the scene. Weird and strange happenings, causing considerable consternation amongst not a few

 A “Ghost” Mystery Solved. A family in the Meanwood Road district of Leeds have been considerably alarmed of late by the ringing of bells and the knocking of doors in their house. Believing the house

 A Ghost Laid. For some time past Mrs Wraithe, a widow lady, residing in Burton street, Wakefield, has been annoyed by the ringing of bells in her house, the breaking of windows, and the usual

 Horsforth ‘poltergeist’ busy. Police puzzled but medium stops raps. In the old-world, rosebush flanked district of Woodside, Horsforth, 75-year-old Mrs. Annie Eanor lives in fear with her daughter, Mrs. Lily Wrighton, and her granddaughter, Gladys,

 Strange doings at a Leeds house. Poltergeist or a practical joker? By a “Yorkshire Post” Reporter. Two Leeds police officers searched a terrace house in Headingley last night for a “ghost” which is said to

Extraordinary Rappings at Seedhill. A deal of excitement, amusement, and even trepidation has been experienced during the week amongst a good number of persons of tolerably respectable standing in the town, in consequence of reported

The Mysterious Noises at a House in Holbeck. A Six-months problem which baffles solution. The Holbeck “ghost” is not “laid” after all – or, [at any rate] is alive and kicking, or rather rapping, [?]