Extraordinary Occurrence. The Birmingham Journal says, “A very curious, and, as yet, inexplicable occurrence, has, within the present week, furnished matter for the wonder of our townsmen. On Tuesday, the 28th ult. about half-past 12
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Cookstown, County Tyrone (1894)
Re-appearance of the Cookstown Ghost. Extraordinary Occurrence. A person going over Oldtown Hill, a well-marked locality in Cookstown, during the past week, any time between eight o’clock and midnight, or even later, must have noticed
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A new Cock-lane Ghost seems to have arisen at the house of Mrs Golding, at Stockwell, probably nothing more than a scheme to endeavour to render a certain very worthy Baronet in that neighbourhood unpopular;
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Goblins In Paris. To the Editor of the Morning Post. Paris, August 22. Sir, The following singular specimen of the mysterious has just occurred in this City. I need not mention to you that it
Continue ReadingHuntingdon, Cambridgeshire (1865)
Huntingdon. A Ghost! Some fun and excitement was caused in this town last week by the alleged performance of a ghost (which no one had seen) by repeated violent knocking in and about the house
Continue ReadingRothwell, Northamptonshire (1893)
Rothwell. Mysterious Occurrences. During the latter part of last week the Kettering-road inhabitants of this town have had their feelings excited and their minds disturbed by the report of certain unaccountable noises and knockings, which
Continue ReadingGenoa, Liguria, Italy (1930)
Girl Hoaxes a Town. Wall pulled down in ghost hunt. From our own correspondent, Rome, Monday. A 17-year-old girl servant started a ghost hunt in Genoa which lasted for five days and hoaxed: squads of
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The Cambridge “Ghost.” Last Tuesday week, about six o’clock in the evening, the family of Mr Haggis were startled by three (three is the mystical number) violent and distinct raps at the back door; on
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A Great Ghost Hunt By Policemen. When we say this, we mean it, and it happened in this way. Between a fortnight and three weeks ago, strange knockings, continued from time to time, were heard
Continue ReadingAsfordsby, Leicestershire (1913)
Exorcism of a ghost. Clergyman’s strange statement. A curious “ghost story” comes from the village of Ashfordby, in Leicestershire. It appears that the rectory of Ashfordby, which is inhabited by the Rev. F.A. Gage Hall,
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