‘Ghost’ Happenings Are Due To Son Hanged For Murder, Says Family. By Sunday Dispatch Reporter. So many strange things are happening in their home, say the Bentleys of Norbury, S.W., that it must be the
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Aberdeen (1963)
[this is from April 1st. But it doesn’t really read like an April Fool) Jack Nicoll goes ghost-hunting. ‘What a Life’ – They’ve a spook. There is a ghost abroad in the Union! I mean
Continue ReadingBrighton, East Sussex (1904)
Musical Ghost. Weird story of a haunted house at Brighton. A story of a haunted house where a ghost has been seen was published by the “Daily Mail” on Saturday last as follows: – Brighton’s
Continue ReadingTunbridge Wells, Kent (1901)
A “Haunted” Lodging-house. We quote the following from the Daily Mail, which may probably intend to father upon Tunbridge Wells the episode which it attributes to a “fashionable town on the borders of Kent and
Continue ReadingLondon, Ontario, Canada (1895)
A mild sensation has been caused by some extraordinary manifestations at the residence of Mr John Arscott, 175 Ann street. The family say they were surprised on Sunday by loud scratching on the wall. Mr
Continue ReadingLeeds, West Yorkshire (1858)
“Laying” of a ghost at Leeds. A respectable family residing in Nippet Lane, Stony Rock, Leeds, have been for the past six or eight weeks seriously disturbed in mind by the extraordinary noises heard from
Continue ReadingEast Wickham, London (1920)
Haunted by his dead wife. Strange Kent happenings. “Searchlight” apparition. Whatever may be the explanation of the following extraordinary happenings that were described to the London “Evening News” by a man and his wife, who
Continue ReadingClitheroe, Lancashire (1891)
Strange Ghost Story From Clitheroe. Discovery of the “Ghost.” Our Clitheroe correspondent writes: – “An extraordinary case of supposed ghost visitation has just occurred at Well Hall, Clitheroe, the residence of the Rev. S. H.
Continue ReadingSouth Shields, Tyne and Wear (1885)
For some days past the public mind in the neighbourhood of Walpole Street, South Shields, has been greatly exercised by the supposed appearances of a ghostly visitant in one of the dwellings of the living.
Continue ReadingBristol (1761)
They write from Bristol that a sham Ghost is playing tricks there; and that a house near Lawford’s Gate is haunted by a mischievous Devil, who pinches the children there, and won’t let them sleep
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