Boy’s Magnetic Power. Mystery of Moving Chairs. Scientists and an “unruly spirit”. Special tests are being arranged at the National Laboratory of Psychical Research, Queensberry Place, London, to find out if little Douglas Drew (8),
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Reading, Berkshire (1982)
Electric sparks fly for poor Sonia. by Ray Bryant Everything that Midas touched turned to gold… but Sonia Maslen is not so lucky. Everything that she touches goes bang, and to prove it she can
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Eerie vigil at manor house. Family forced to leave haunted home. Noises off. From our special correspondent, Brighton, Friday. Ghost-hunting parties motored to-night to the Downland village of Denton, near Newhaven Harbour, to join villagers
Continue ReadingDrumblade, Aberdeenshire (1870)
Superstition in Strathbogie. Last week some strange proceedings took place not far from the capital of Strathbogie. At Newtongarry, parish of Drumblade, an old man was lying ill, and rapidly drawing near his end, when
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Mysterious Circumstance. For the last fortnight the family of Mr Chapman, No. 6, Gloucester-street, Commercial-road, have been daily thrown into the greatest confusion and alarm by dreadful moanings and loud shrieks of “Murder! Murder!” and
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A Ghost. (From a correspondent). For some weeks past the tenants of a small cottage at the South end of Gainsboro’ have been kept in a constant state of alarm by the imaginary visits of
Continue ReadingRamelton / Rathmelton, County Donegal (1786)
[November] 15th. – A letter was this day written to Derry by a gentleman in the county of Donegal, of which the following is an extract:- “Every body in this part of the country, man,
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Shepherd Girl “Ghost.” Pranks of child of fourteen annoy whole village. For some time the inhabitants of the little Brittany village of Pontivy have been annoyed by what were locally described as ghosts. These ghosts
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A Playful Spook. Not being able to support its terrestrial fame, a modest ghost whose weird pranks have created a big sensation in the neighbourhood of Islington, Liverpool, mysteriously vanished. Probably its conscience prompted its
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Peckham Peckham Besieged By Ghosts! Extraordinary scenes in the streets. On Wednesday evening a mysterious affair – nothing less than a “ghost” hunt took place in North Peckham, and created some of the wildest excitement.
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