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
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Kirkcaldy, 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
Continue ReadingArgoed, Blackwood, Caerphilly (1950)
Young mother must not return to ‘Ghost House’ say doctors. Committee promises a new home. Twenty-six-years old Mrs Violet Witts, miner’s wife, mother of four young children, of 8, Upper James-street, Argoed, near Blackwood, Monmouthshire,
Continue ReadingBarnby Crossing, Balderton, Nottinghamshire (1994)
High spirits rattle family. by Rachel Cutts. A couple have asked for a housing transfer because they claim ghosts have separated them from their four-year-old son. Mr and Mrs Brian Manterfield moved into their council
Continue ReadingHarleston, Norfolk (1983)
Haunted by a woman-hater. By Jane Oddy. When Mandy Franks moved into her new home in Harleston she jokingly asked the previous owners whether the 500-year-old building was haunted. Little did she realise the truth
Continue ReadingReading, Berkshire (1980)
Family quits ‘haunted’ house. Shirley and Stephen Du-Val with baby Kevin in their bedroom at the flat they claim is haunted. A frightened young mother has quit her council flat, driven out, she claims, by
Continue ReadingMilford on Sea, Hampshire (1979)
Mystery of haunted council house. Mr and Mrs Jimmy Dyson lived at 21 Solent Way, Milford, with their two children, their Siamese cat and their puppy, until last week. It was the eerie seventh resident
Continue ReadingNorthfield, Birmingham (1990)
Riddle of city haunted houses. Three terrified Birmingham families who fear they are being plagued by poltergeists have called in a priest to unravel the mystery of their haunted houses. All the homes are built
Continue ReadingWarsash, Hampshire (1958)
She believes ghost has secret. Strange sounds heard in a Warsash house. Standing in the doorway of her 250-year-old oak-beamed cottage, a Warsash woman told a reporter that she thought ghosts were trying to lead
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