A haunted chateau. Malicious injuries by the ghost. Paris, Wednesday. For the last fortnight there have been mysterious happenings at the Chateau de Taden, near Dinan, in Brittany. A large party had been invited there
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Brasparts, Britanny, France (1949)
Villagers hunt for ‘ghost’. Solve farm mystery. Brasparts (Brittany), Tuesday. Two hundred villagers with shotguns and pitchforks helped the police last night to lay “ghosts” haunting farmer Henri Jeffre’s farmhouse. The “ghosts” turned out to
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Charlie the singing ghost is playing havoc with landlady Harriet Weller. He changes her calendar dates, pinches ornaments and sends her cooker controls haywire. He even tacked lodger Jack Flood’s trousers to the ceiling. Now
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Family flee from ‘house of frights’. A mother and her two young children are refusing to go back to their home after a Hallowe’en fright. Susan Bishop and the children fled from the house on
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Mossbank – Jan. 9, 1862. A Ghost. In the usually quiet neighbourhood of Mossbank there rarely occurs anything to disturb the ordinary current of events. But within the last ten days not a little excitement
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Half a house haunted. Ghostly rappings. Half a house at Bow – the lower half – is reputed to be haunted in consequence of a nightly performance of ghostly rappings. In the top half of
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Ghostly Rappings. The inmates of the Medway Workhouse, Chatham, are being disturbed by ghostly rappings on the walls of the wards, and up to the present all efforts to lay the “spook” have failed. Westminster
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“Ghost” at Tydd. Mysterious rappings on cottage door. This is an age rather too sceptical to accept stories of ghosts, even when the authentication seems to be most reliable, so the happenings at a cottage
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A Ghost! A Ghost!! In this year of grace 1869 the usually quiet little town of St Just was disturbed from its wonted equanimity, a few days since – by a rumour to the effect
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George the ghost exposed – he is David, 14. One of the world’s most publicised ghosts was unmasked last week. For 18 months George, as he was known to his fans, has haunted a stone
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