Waiting for a ghost. By Chris Oxley. All last night, I sat up waiting to meet the ghost of Penny Lane. But he didn’t keep the appointment. With floorboards for a bed and a plank
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Upper Mayfield, Staffordshire (1995)
Mum tells of ‘rape’ by evil ghost in icy house of horrors. By Bill Daniels and Adrian Shaw. A weeping wife told a judge yesterday that she and her husband refused to pay money owing
Continue ReadingHuyton, Liverpool (1977)
Bogeyman scares a family. A chilling series of strange coincidences… By Mark Thomas. The bogeyman in two-years-old Bobby Higgins’ bedroom is a bit different from the ones most toddlers live with – for he has
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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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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.
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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
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‘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
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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.
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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
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