Haunted House in Portadown. Incredible Superstition. The belief in ghosts dies hard. Even toward the close of the nineteenth century a portion of our local community seems to be under the influence of these silly
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Great Harwood, Lancashire (1926)
Eerie Incident at Death-bed. Picture responds to a call. A remarkable death-bed incident has occurred in the Great Harwood district of Lancashire. An aged woman was lying on her death-bed, and had been frequently calling
Continue ReadingLoughborough, Leicestershire (1845)
The neighbourhood of Rushes-street, Loughborough, says the Leicestershire Mercury, was thrown into a state of alarm at midnight, about a week ago, by two females running out in their night-clothes, when the rain was falling
Continue ReadingDudley, West Midlands (1924)
Hissing “Ghost” at Dudley. Chairs hurled across room. Beds shaken. ‘Investigator’ bolts from house. From a Gazette Correspondent. Dudley, Thursday. A Kates Hill family named Hancocks, residing at 16a, Hill-street, in the poorer part of
Continue ReadingSalt Lake City, Utah, USA (1873)
A Ghost Among The Mormons. A Salt Lake correspondent of the New York World relates the following curious story under date of the 24th ult.:- A novelty in the line of spiritual manifestations occurred in
Continue ReadingBayhead, North Uist (1884)
Stornoway Notes. A Sensational Ghost Story. When matters were beginning to assume their normal condition here, after the unusual excitement of election times, part of the burgh has the good fortune (or as some of
Continue ReadingSaint-Martin-de-I’lf (?), Rouen, Normandy, France (1897)
“An alleged haunted house.” What the Paris correspondent of the “Morning Post” cautiously describes as “an alleged haunted house” is to be found just now in a village near Rouen, named St Martin-en-Campagne. The house
Continue ReadingStrabane, County Tyrone (1913)
The Strabane “Ghost.” “Apparition” at Railway Station. What three engine-cleaners saw. Stories told to our representative. There has not been a period in the world’s history when belief in ghosts did not exist, and today
Continue ReadingPorthmadog, Gwynedd (1905)
One of the ghosts that have begun to infect this district has been got rid of at Portmadoc. It turned out to be a servant girl who had been rattling the milkcans. People are ready
Continue ReadingMilwich, Staffordshire (1868)
The Supernatural! A correspondent, living in the neighbourhood of Milwich, has forwarded the following: – The inhabitants of this district, about a mile from Milwich, have been greatly surprised during the last and previous three
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