A ghost in the nineteenth century! Serious gossip and old-womanish alarm appears to have existed for some time past in the regions of Carden-street, in this city, and at length to have established in the
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Kidderminster, Worcestershire (1959)
Ghost of recluse may haunt his former home. Eerie noises in bedroom. By our Kidderminster correspondent. “For sale” states a noticeboard in the front garden of this house in Birmingham Road, Kidderminster, which is believed
Continue ReadingBewdley, Worcestershire (1960)
Manure thrown into gardens. Poltergeist blamed. Incidents in the gardens of two Bewdley bungalows, which caused trouble between their occupiers, might have been due to a poltergeist, Mr M.F. James said at Bewdley Magistrates’ Court
Continue ReadingKidderminster, Worcestershire (1966)
Move us from ‘jinx’ house, a family begs. ‘Doomed if we stay at No. 113’ A mother of ten children has asked Kidderminster Corporation to find the family another home because she believes their present
Continue ReadingKidderminster, Worcestershire (1986)
Man in ‘ghost’ house alert. By David Benjamin. A senior Stourbridge based official of the National Spiritualist Church today warned a council house tenant not to hold a seance to try and contact ghosts he
Continue ReadingWorcester (1986)
Haunted house fears. A family of six have fled their council home because they are convinced it is haunted. But an expert on the paranormal who held a seance with Mr Ray Oliver and his
Continue ReadingCatshill, Worcestershire (1869)
Catshill. A Haunted (?) House. There has been quite a sensation here recently, in consequence of stones dropping on and around the weigh bench of a nail shop at Marlbrook, in what is thought to
Continue ReadingKempsey, Worcestershire (1849)
The Cock-Lane Ghost at Kempsey. In the road leading down to the church stands, in a garden and alone, a small house tenanted by Benjamin Amphlett, butcher, with a wife and three children, and one
Continue ReadingWorcester (1802)
Worcester, Feb. 17. A circumstance of rather a singular nature has recently occurred in this city, which we are induced to make public, in order that similar impositions, should they be attempted, may the more
Continue ReadingRochford, Worcestershire (1879)
Tenbury. “Manifestations” Extraordinary. The inhabitants of Rochford have for the last few days been in great alarm. On Wednesday night, the 15th inst., while Mr. Joseph Smith, of the New House Farm, was away from
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