A Petersfield Mystery. Much ghostly tapping. Vicar and police chief hear it. Hidden money theory. What is presumed to be a tapping spirit is haunting a house at 22, Chapel Street, Petersfield, occupied by Mr.
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Tywyn, Gwynedd (1912)
Welsh Ghost Story. The residents of Frankwell Street, Towyn, Merioneth, declare that a ghost haunts the neighbourhood nightly. During the past week, between the hours of eleven and one, stones and bricks have rained down
Continue ReadingAitoliko, Greece (1955)
Aitolikon (Greece), Friday. Police have drawn a blank in a search for a ghost which throws stones at fishermen. Two fishermen, the brothers Nikolaos and Gerassimos Bottas, reported that the stone-throwing started when they tried
Continue ReadingEdgefield, South Carolina, USA (1829)
The Edgefield Ghost. The Edgefield Carolinian, a paper published in South Carolina, at a town of that name, contains in its number of the 11th of July last, the following statement of facts, in relation
Continue ReadingWest London (1907)
The spook slap. The house of the dancing furniture. Some weird experiences of a doctor in good practice in the West End of London are related by Mr Inkster Gilbertson in the current number of
Continue ReadingCopley, West Yorkshire (1907)
Window-Smashing Mystery. Police and public puzzled at Copley. Residents at Copley, a suburb of Halifax, are much perplexed over a mysterious smashing of windows. Since Christmas, almost daily, and in the daylight as well as
Continue ReadingKilmallock, County Limerick (1878)
Mysterious Affair in Kilmallock. A correspondent of the Cork Examiner tells the following singular story: – About a fortnight since the Rev. Mr. Dea, Protestant curate in Kilmallock, who resides a short distance from the
Continue ReadingPeter’s Hill, Belfast (1831)
A Ghost Detected. For some time past the neighbourhood of Peter’s-hill has been agitated, or amused, with the account of a very sagacious nocturnal visitor in a house there, who, by a tapping kind of
Continue ReadingChili, Rochester, New York, USA (1873)
A Yankee Ghost. The Spiritualists of America have become challenged, says the Standard, to investigate some ghostly manifestations in the townland of Chili, near Rochester, U.S. Some six months ago the owner of a house,
Continue ReadingKinclaven, Perthshire (c.1788)
Communications to the Editor. Sir – About thirty-five years ago, a most extraordinary phenomenon occurred in the parish of Kinclaven, a few miles to the northward of Perth. A young man was haunted and tormented
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