Spectre’s Agency – or hallucination? Weird happenings attributed to the Duppy, the Jamaican ghost, or spectre, made an audience “creepy” in London yesterday. Eerie accounts of stone throwing which could not be traced to any
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Woodford, London (1920)
“Catapult Mystery.” Strange attacks on a villa. Big hue and cry for miscreants. Woodford, Saturday. Mysterious attacks made on a villa in Grove Road, Woodford, are puzzling the local police. The attacks are also causing
Continue ReadingDrumnamether, Markethill, County Armagh (1874)
Another ghost story, well authenticated, similar in all respects to that which has made Cookstown notorious, has gained currency in the quiet little village of Markethill and its vicinity. Many of the inhabitants feel not
Continue ReadingBallysallagh, Newtownards, County Down (1874)
An invasion of Ghosts. At this season of the year, when the gigantic gooseberries are out, when the supernatural cucumbers have lost their fascination, and when even a cow with two tails, or a hen
Continue ReadingWarsaw, Poland (1896)
A Tall Story From Russia. If we may trust in the matter the Warsaw Courier, an extraordinary incident has occurred in that city. A lady engaged, through the medium of a domestic servants’ agency, a
Continue ReadingLincoln (1932)
Ghost with a bugle! Alarm at Lincoln. A ghost with a bugle is stated to be haunting a Lincoln house, and so persistent have the visitations become that the occupants are terrified and dare not
Continue ReadingColby, Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria (1888)
A Ghost at Colby. For a week or two past a ghostly apparition has greatly alarmed the inhabitants of the village of Colby, near Appleby. The phantom visitant appears to have laid the scene of
Continue ReadingCastelnuovo Bocca d’Adda, Lombardy, Italy (1895)
Ghosts in a Castle. At a manorial castle near Castelnuovo, says a correspondent of the Daily News in Lodi, there has taken place since August a series of spiritualistic phenomena which has frightened the superstitious
Continue ReadingAfonwen, Pwllheli, Gwynedd (1910)
‘Haunted’ Cottage. Rappings and wailings. Welsh villagers “scared.” The neighbourhood of Afonwen, near Pwllheli is in a state of turmoil (telegraphs a correspondent) owing to mysterious rappings and wailings stated to be heard in a
Continue ReadingWoking, Surrey (1911)
A Woking ‘ghost’. Weird happenings in a local residence. An unsolved mystery. During the past week Woking has been much excited over strange stories of weird noises in a gentleman’s house situate in one of
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