The Strabane “Ghost.” “Apparition” at Railway Station. What three engine-cleaners saw. Stories told to our representative. There has not been a period in the world’s history when belief in ghosts did not exist, and today
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Porthmadog, Gwynedd (1905)
One of the ghosts that have begun to infect this district has been got rid of at Portmadoc. It turned out to be a servant girl who had been rattling the milkcans. People are ready
Continue ReadingMilwich, Staffordshire (1868)
The Supernatural! A correspondent, living in the neighbourhood of Milwich, has forwarded the following: – The inhabitants of this district, about a mile from Milwich, have been greatly surprised during the last and previous three
Continue ReadingSandbank, Argyll (1944)
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
Continue ReadingLeith, 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
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