Strange Knockings. After reading J.J. Brown’s letter headed “The night a spirit called,” I found it interesting to know someone else has had this experience also. My wife and I are often awakened during the
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Basford, Nottingham (1979)
Family in fear of a “spook”. By Tony Robinson. A family are walking the streets at night – because they are scared of a ghost. Wayne Bickerton and his wife, Marie, take their nine-month-old daughter
Continue ReadingNorway (1903)
Extraordinary Phenomenon. A Copenhagen telegram says – A mysterious occurence in a lonely little spot called Syversrud, in the province of Tolemarken, is attracting the attention of the whole of Noway. On the rocky coast
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The ‘ghost’ haunting a family. A Speke family is refusing to sleep in their four bedroomed council home – because they say it is haunted. Mr Thomas Wright, his wife, Elizabeth, and their six children
Continue ReadingAbingdon, Oxfordshire (1879 and 1891)
A Ghost Story. The attention of the superstitious has been attracted to the phenomena which are declared ever and anon to manifest themselves in one of the Abingdon Alms houses, not indeed in “questionable shape,”
Continue ReadingNewcastle upon Tyne (1964)
Mysterious knocking sounds keep family awake. Vicar prays in house of strange noises. A vicar has said prayers in the house of a Scotswood family of five who are being troubled by mysterious knockings in
Continue ReadingLeeds, West Yorkshire (1930)
Mystery at Hospital. Tappings in the night. Women patients at Seacroft Isolation Hospital have been alarmed recently by mysterious tappings in one of the wards, the origin of which could not be readily discovered. So
Continue ReadingRoydon, Diss, Norfolk (1822)
A case of a singular kind was brought before George Lee, Esq., the Rev. W. Manning, and the Rev. Temple Frere, at the Petty Sessions, at Diss, on Monday last. A girl, named Charlotte Bird,
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To Psychical Researchers. To the Editor. Dear Sir, – In the midst of the heated discussion on the subjects of granite cubes, wood blocks, sewage treatement, and rescued nuns, it is refreshing to be able
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1855)
Extraordinary Affair. Practical joking. The borough of Bolton has been started from its propriety, in consequence of the general spread of a story, that some unearthly visitant had taken up its abode in a lawyer’s
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