Haunted House. Weird experience of tenants. Cats vanish in thin air. Stories of weird happenings in a Manchester house were told to a “Press and Journal” representative last night. Amazing happenings which the tenants allege
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Shepherd’s Bush, London (1909)
Mystery of Bells. Uncanny ringing puzzles a London household. Police search futile. From the tenants of a house in Shepherd’s Bush (West London), The Weekly Dispatch received a narration of [illegible] ringing of bells, which
Continue ReadingKilburn, London (1949)
Shoes that walk alone. A shop of odd fear. In a very ordinary street in Kilburn, London, is a shoemaker’s shop where shoes walk – without feet in them. That’s not the only strange thing
Continue ReadingCowes, Isle of Wight (1996)
Ghost story leaves power chief in dark. British power chiefs were investigating spooky claims that a radio-loving ghost ran up a huge electricity bill in a haunted terrace house. The big spending spirit turned on
Continue ReadingBraintree, Essex (1971)
Boy ‘Haunted by Evil Spirit’ taken away from home. A boy who was said to have started a £70,000 school blaze while he was possessed by an evil spirit was taken from his home by
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1962)
It’s time this ghost went west! ‘Kill Croaky off before he wrecks this house completely’ says Brian Northman. If there are such things as timid people in a down-to-earth place like the Lancashire mill town
Continue ReadingEbbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent (1913)
Eerie Visitor. An old-fashioned, but prosaic-looking, house in Victoria-road, Ebbw Vale, is the centre of considerable excitement in the town just at present by reason of talk of mysterious knockings and ghostly visitations. Mrs Williams,
Continue ReadingCradock, South Australia (1887)
The Cradock Ghost Scare. By Kirkham Evans. For more than a month the north has been in a disturbed condition on account of a wonderful ghost story which has been freely circulated through most of
Continue ReadingHorningtops, Liskeard, Cornwall (1969)
‘Ghost’ Drives Out Family. Prayers by Rector. A pair of semi-detached council houses in the hamlet of Horning Tops, near Liskeard, is the scene of strange happenings attributed by the two families concerned to supernatural
Continue ReadingBirmingham, West Midlands (1939)
Medium Investigates Birmingham Cellar Raps. Rappings on the floor of a house in Highfield-road, Washwood Heath, Birmingham, have led to excavations in the cellar, to see if there is evidence of a tragedy it is
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