A House that was “Haunted”. Another ‘strange’ story comes from Sandbank. By a “Daily Record” staff reporter. Sandbank, Monday. Sitting in her little, old-fashioned and one-time “haunted house” here this afternoon, 84-year-old Mr Annie Chalmers
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Leith, Edinburgh (1828)
Ghost Story. A spiritual visitant, as was supposed, for some days lately, afforded a subject of wonderment to the natives of the port of Leith. In a house in the Kirkgate there were heard the
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The Windsor Ghost Outdone in Dublin. The following piece of ghostly intelligence appears in the Dublin Freeman’s Journal of Thursday. The Windsor mystery is but a China orange to Lombard-street as compared with the metropolitan
Continue ReadingCotmanhay, Ilkeston, Derbyshire (1986)
Family flees a musical ghost. A family has fled their home in terror – because they say a ghost keeps playing “No Place Like home,” on their door chimes. Last night a vicar was giving
Continue ReadingCarisbrook, Jamaica (1917)
In 1917, at Carisbrook, in Jamaica, a young woman named Agnes Brooke was the victim. Large stones fell on her from the kitchen ceiling, just as oil fell at the rectory, and sudden fires borke
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… Again, at Port Elizabeth, in South Africa, in 1916, the victim was another girl. Her food is reported to have caught fire when she attempted to eat it, and the blankets on her bed
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In these days of modern incredulity accounts of haunted houses are usuallly treated with laughter and contempt, but the inhabitants living in the district round the Castle of Coudraie in France are still inclined to
Continue ReadingGreenwich, London (1771)
True Intelligence Extraordinary. The inhabitants of the town of Greenwich have for some time past been alarmed with the account of a Ghost, or rather a supernatural noise, which makes great disturbance in the house
Continue ReadingByker, Newcastle (1947)
Mystery rappings in flat still unsolved. A Newcastle police officer who has sat in a downstairs flat in Clydesddale Road, Byker, specially to listen to rappings and knockings from its walls, is as mystified what
Continue ReadingSouth Carolina, USA (1890)
A Girl of Strange Powers. Her mere presence causes a regular rumpus among furniture. There have been several remarkable stories of girls in America being the mysterious means of commotion around them, and now we
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