Paris Gossip. Comedy of a ‘haunted’ house. From our correspondent. Paris, Thursday. There is perhaps a moral for your Society for Psychical Research in the following story. For some time the inhabitants of a house
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Maybole, South Ayrshire (1992)
Haunting question for Maybole library staff. By Jim Brough. The haunting question among staff at Maybole’s Carnegie Library this week was whether the resident ghost would move when the library closed on Monday. For there
Continue ReadingKnaresborough, North Yorkshire (1905)
Ghost Story. An old house at Knaresborough. A puzzle of the so-called “ghostly” order awaits solution at Knaresborough. There (writes a correspondent), on the banks of the Nidd, is a charming old dwelling, parts of
Continue ReadingTorquay, Devon (1966)
Torquay woman hopes she has laid a chair ghost – with her axe. Two Torquay houses are having “ghost trouble” and the occupiers are wondering if the chopping up of a “haunted” chair will bring
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Have YOU the guts to live in this house? By Derek Agnew. To let: Pleasant three-bedroom house. Older type but newly and tastefully decorated. All mod. con. Ample storage room incl. cellar. In quiet road
Continue ReadingChorley, Lancashire (1954)
Dog goes mad. Chorley couple “now believe in ghosts.” Since moving into a Standish street house 17 months ago, a Chorley couple, Mr Allan Mather and his 21-year-old wife, have been troubled by peculiar noises
Continue ReadingChirk, Wrexham (1955)
‘Morose Italian’ driving three families from their homes. Three families at the Welsh border village of Chirk are appealing to the council to rehouse them because they claim that a “morose Italian” haunts their wooden
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They will face cold, but not the ghost. A young couple and the wife’s mother yesterday left the 10-roomed house to wander the streets in the cold and sleep in railway station waiting rooms because,
Continue ReadingLichfield, Staffordshire (1994)
Antique setting for ‘ghost’. A Lichfield antiques shop is getting ready to do battle with real ghosts and ghouls as Hallowe’en approaches. The Cathedral Antique Centre in Dam Street has been pestered by a spectre
Continue ReadingAuldgirth, Dumfries and Galloway (1993 and some decades)
Farmhouse haunting horror. Most people will have fun this weekend celebrating Hallowe’en but ghosts have a far more sinister influence on the lives of one Dumfriesshire family… The McNay family – who live in an
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