Mary Bell house ‘is haunted’. A terrified family have asked for a move from their council house, the former home of child killer Mary Bell. They claim that the house is haunted. The Calvert family
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Coverack, Cornwall (1939)
200-year-old house haunted. The 200-year-old coastguard station at Coverack (Cornwall), now converted into a house, is haunted. Mrs G. Maule, who lives there, thinks so, anyhow, and blames it on the Cornish pixies. Doors make
Continue ReadingReading, Berkshire (1985)
Haunted house gives up its ghost. The restless spirit of a tragic woman has finally been exorcised from a quiet council semi in Reading. After two visits by priests strange happenings at the house in
Continue ReadingLittle Cressingham, Norfolk (1994)
Our house is haunted, says scared mother. A family driven out of their home by ghostly happenings yesterday sought a medium’s help. The medium visited the semi-detached former RAF married quarter at The Arms, Little
Continue ReadingLondon (1940s)
House became haunted after woman’s suicide. With reference to The Haunting (Lynn News front page, last Friday), I experienced a haunting 50 years ago when I lived in London. At the time I and my
Continue ReadingBedworth, Warwickshire (1990)
Old hat factory ghost reappears – 34 years after exorcism. Workers at a Bedworth engineering firm are convinced their factory is haunted. A shadowy figure has been seen numerous times at G.H. Wilson Engineering in
Continue ReadingCock Lane, London (1762)
From the Whitehall, General and other Evening Papers, etc. Jan. 21. For some time past a great knocking having been heard in the night, at the officiating Parish Clerk’s of St Sepulchre’s, in Cock Lane,
Continue ReadingKing’s Lynn, Norfolk (1974)
Family haunted by ghostly goings-on. Strange things are happening in the Hawes household, things that have no reasonable explanation… uncanny happenings that are disrupting house and home. Weird goings-on over the past two years have
Continue ReadingMilwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (1874)
A haunted servant girl! Milwaukee was thrown into a high state of excitement a few days since by the discovery of a haunted house – or, to speak more correctly, a haunted woman, as it
Continue ReadingRutherglen, South Lanarkshire (1825)
Wanton Mischief. Last week a respectable family in Rutherglen were molested with a rather singular species of annoyance. Their dwelling-house is inclosed with walls, part of which form a back area or court, containing wash-house,
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