Christmas Ghost Story from Hartshill. Footsteps up and down stairs, but no one there! If there is one thing people like at Christmas, it is a good ghost story. Most districts have their own stories
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Ely, Cambridgeshire (1950)
Night nurse mystery. In 1950, I was stationed at an RAF Hospital, in Ely. As duty officer, I was completing a routine night patrol of the building when, to my surprise, I met a nurse.
Continue ReadingMoulton, Lincolnshire (1985)
Baker’s ghost still walks… Reporter: Sarah Crew. Garage boss Barry Willson didn’t believe in ghosts before he moved into his Moulton workshop. But now he is convinced the ghost of a baker who hanged himself
Continue ReadingWest Auckland, County Durham (1953)
‘Ghosts made us quit’. An ordinary English family have fled in terror from their ordinary English house – no ancient castle – because of “unseen clutching hands, footsteps in the night, icy draughts… Ghosts!” The
Continue ReadingWyck Rissington, Gloucestershire (1947)
Mystery of the footsteps in the night. What was described as a true ghost story – his strange experiences during the first three years he lived at Wick Rissington Rectory, was narrated by the Rev.
Continue ReadingSheffield, South Yorkshire (1911)
House of Mystery Weird Experiences in Vicarage Family leave in alarm. A Sheffield suburban vicarage has recently been the scene of certain visitations which have caused the family to seek another residence. The servants averred
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Ghost stops the workers. Builders quit work on an empty, 100-year-old house after mysterious happenings. They complained of a ghostly sheepdog, a floating hand and other flying objects. Apprentice Robert Watson, who was taken to
Continue ReadingStamford, Lincolnshire (1961)
Family quit the mystery house By Mirror reporter A town’s housingcommittee will decide on Wednesday what to do about the House of Mystery. The house – at New Cross road, Stamford, Lincs – has been
Continue ReadingLeek, Staffordshire (1986)
Council re-houses ‘haunted’ family. Mystery power shatters glass. By Andrew Hewitt. A bad-tempered poltergeist has driven a family of five out of their Leek council house. Twenty-nine-year-old Mrs Julie Patalong got up last Saturday morning
Continue ReadingBedworth, Warwickshire (1929)
The Haunted House Strange happenings in a Warwickshire parish. (From a correspondent). Unaccountable knockings and noises, the appearance of an apparition, and at frequently recurring intervals an atmosphere of the supernatural, is the experience, and
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