Of Apparitions &c. In Glamorganshire. I am now to give an account of the most wonderful actings of a disembodied Spirit that ever I have heard of in this Century, which came to pass in
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Newgate, London (1820)
Extraordinary Circumstance. The Newgate Ghost. It appears that various spectral appearances took place in Newgate on Thursday night. Several of the criminals were on that night locked up under sentence of death, while the watchmen
Continue ReadingBalham, London (1911)
Alleged haunted house in Cathles Road. Amusing letters at Wandsworth County Court. Considerable merriment was caused at the Wandsworth County Court on Monday, during the hearing by his Honour Judge Harlington of a claim brought
Continue ReadingPortadown, County Armagh (1896)
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
Continue ReadingGreat 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
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