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,
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Grange Moor, West Yorkshire (1888)
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
Continue ReadingBarton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire (1856)
A strange “Story!” There is a haunted house at Barton, an eccentric ghost having taken up its residence therein and made “night hideous” by executing its pranks at once fantastic and incomprehensible. Under its influence,
Continue ReadingGulval, Cornwall (1935)
Mysterious tappings at Gulval. The vicar’s experiences. As a general rule stories of rappings on the wall and similar mysterious happenings are taken with a grain of salt, so often have they proved to be
Continue ReadingOld Whittington, Chesterfield, Derbyshire (1958)
Haunted House Claim in Court. Chesterfield Magistrates were told yesterday by a probation officer that a 60-year-old woman who admitted being found drunk complained of noises in her house. The woman was Mrs Gladys Wilkinson
Continue ReadingLong Island, New York (1958)
John Gold cables this week’s spookiest story. Do I believe in ghosts? Well I’m not so sure now… New York, Thursday. I spent last evening in New York’s “haunted house” and – so help me
Continue ReadingNottingham (1958)
Where things go bump in the night. Nottm. “Haunted House.” Scare: couple’s ordeal. Midnight is the hour feared by Mr and Mrs Frank Clarke, as with their eight-month-old baby Wendy and black puppy Lady, they
Continue ReadingRest Haven, Illinois, USA (1957)
Flying pots terrify holiday hamlet. From John Sampson. New York, Sunday. Flying saucers – not to mention flying cups, glasses, pots and pans – were terrifying 300 residents of a summer resort called “Resthaven” today.
Continue ReadingHull, East Riding of Yorkshire (1938)
Tells court of the ghost with a laugh. The ghost with a nasty laugh… with Christmas at hand this sounds like just another ghost story, but it was, in fact, told by a man in
Continue ReadingBallyward, County Down (1953)
Co. Down family not annoyed by its ghost. Footfalls were so loud, they wakened baby. By Frontier Sentinel special representative. Ballyward, midway between Banbridge and Castlewellan may not be a hamlet of any great fame
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