‘Ghost’ Plays Jokes. Six years ago Brandon Davies, the picture-dealer with a gallery in Grosvenor-street, Mayfair, crashed mysteriously to his death from a window of his home. After his death his gallery, once filled with
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Pietermaritzburg, South Africa (1906)
A Ghost’s Joke. A weird occurrence which happened recently at Pietermaritzburg, Natal, is related by F. W. Fitz-Simmons, of the Natal Government Museum. “One evening a few months ago,” he says, “the door of one
Continue ReadingPeckham, London (1872)
The Peckham Ghost. There have been no more ghostly visitations in the Sumner Road, Peckham, since the recent capture of the mischievous little girl Nolls. Though it is impossible to credit her with all the
Continue ReadingCulpeper, Virginia, USA (1890)
Ghostly phenomena in a house. A special to the New York World, dated Brandy Station, Virginia, Jan. 11, says the people on the plantation of John W. Brooks, near Culpeper Courthouse, have been thrown into
Continue ReadingCrowland, Lincolnshire (1980)
Mother in haunted house explains… Why I won’t give up the ghost. A young Crowland mother is determined not to be driven out of her 18th century home by “spirits” which she believes haunt it.
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Ghost in good spirits. A vicar whose home is haunted by a fun-loving ghost called Fred says the friendly phantom can drop in for a visit any time he likes. The Rev. Brian Butterworth ,46,
Continue ReadingSpringfield, Kentucky, USA (1874)
A ghost on the “rampage”. It seems that a widow named Mrs Green, living at Springfield, Kentucky, has for some time past been pestered by the attentions of a ghost, who, with singular bad taste,
Continue ReadingSeyssuel, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France (1930)
Have you read the news about the latest French ghost? He is a mysterious thing operating on a farm in the [?]. The farm is situated at Roche[piquet?] in the Commune of Seyssuel. If the
Continue ReadingSteeton, West Yorkshire (1895)
A haunted house at Steeton. No little sensation has been caused in the village of Steeton, near Keighley, by a story that a cottage house at Lane Ends is haunted. The house is occupied by
Continue ReadingKenilworth, Warwickshire (1907)
An invisible ghost. To the editor of “The Referee”. Sir, – When I married in 1889 we went to live in a very pretty creeper-covered cottage in the Kenilworth district – a fuller description might
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