In the Spiritual Magazine for September is the following by Mr Newton Crosland, of Blackheath:- “Apropos to this subject – Rest in the Grave – I wish to lay before your readers a few facts
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Feagh, County Meath (1898)
A Haunted House. The peaceful little town of Kells has suddenly grown important through the undesirable possession of a female ghost, who is “gilding the sober twilight with colour of romance.” She has struck out
Continue ReadingGalashiels, Scottish Borders (1841)
A Galashiels Ghost. A case occurred in the year 1841, in the busy little manufacturing town of Galashiels. In Channel Street there, a one-storey house accommodated two families, while the garret above was occupied as
Continue ReadingCoupar Angus, Perth and Kinross (1937)
Council house “haunted.” Strange sounds and lights at Coupar Angus. A “ghost” in Coupar Angus has adopted the modern outlook. While other spooks haunt the baronial castle, the Coupar Angus spectre has taken over a
Continue ReadingSandfields, Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot (1977)
‘Come and stay a night’ challenge by Sandfields family. By Maggie Errington. In the fertile soil of our imaginations, ghost stories and legends find plenty of nourishment. Whether we believe in them or not, the
Continue ReadingPlymouth, Devon (1955)
Sailor is flown home to catch ghost. A sailor’s wife is troubled by a ghost – so the Navy has flown her husband home from Malta to see about it. The ghost has been worrying
Continue ReadingWarrington, Cheshire (1958)
Haunted? Now the Browns wonder. Strange happenings at their council house are puzzling Mr and Mrs Stewart Brown, of Alpass Avenue, Warrington. “We haven’t seen any ghosts around, but we are beginning to think that
Continue ReadingSwindon, Wiltshire (1985)
Help, my house is haunted. A young mother is pleading to be rehoused because she says a ghost is haunting her council home. Beverley Walsh, 22, said: “In the last two weeks my bed has
Continue ReadingKirkcaldy, Fife (1994)
Couple flee ghostly goings-on. Haunting forces tenant to quit Council flat. By Anna Steven. A spooked pet shop worker has fled his Kirkcaldy home claiming he’s suffered five months of ghostly bumps in the night.
Continue ReadingNunsthorpe, Grimsby, Lincolnshire (1959+)
Grimsby family quits house: It’s haunted, they say. By Marjorie Stephenson. No. 1, Newton-grove is a solidly built council house on the Nunsthorpe estate; a family house in a terrace of similar homes built almost
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