Ghost of a pair of scissors. There is always a haunted house somewhere. Few believe in the recital of wonders that happen in it, yet everybody reads the story. The most prominent of the haunted
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Massachusetts, USA (1868)
A Remarkable Case of Physical Phenomena. (From the Atlantic Monthly). Mary Carrick is an Irish girl, eighteen years of age, who came to this country in the month of May, 1867. She is very ignorant,
Continue ReadingBerlin, Germany (1950)
“Ghost” does overtime on Sundays. Berlin, Thursday. British troops in Berlin have lent the German police a special amplifier to help pin down a “knocking ghost” which has terrified the inhabitants of a tenement in
Continue ReadingPittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA (1868)
A Haunted House. The Pittsburg Leader (United States) tells the following story of a haunted house: – “Some few weeks since a popular undertaker, doing business on Smithfield Street, moved into a house on Clark
Continue ReadingDanville, County Kilkenny (1857)
A True Ghost Story. An evil spirit, which for some time past has been indulging in very strange antics and exciting no small terror and annoyance amongst her Majesty’s lieges in a locality closely neighbouring
Continue ReadingDordon, Warwickshire (1980)
Couple say: ‘We’ve been driven from home’. Ghost – or just a grudge? A young Dordon couple claim they have been driven out of their home by an unfriendly ghost. Mr Tony Sweet and his
Continue ReadingColeshill, Warwickshire (1878)
A “Ghost” In A School. Considerable gossip and many strange rumours have lately been afloat in a small town not a hundred miles from Coleshill, owing to a highly-respectable and flourishing ladies school in its
Continue ReadingRutland, Vermont, USA (1840s)
A Ghostly Carnival. The millions of Spiritualists in the United States, says the Chicago Tribune, find their Mecca just now in a little farmhouse which lies seven miles north of Rutland, Vt. It is the
Continue ReadingTregaron, Ceredigion (1875)
About half a mile from Tregaron there is a ghost. It wears a three cornered hat, barks like a dog, can jump on the backs of four people at once and is becoming so great
Continue ReadingRoath, Cardiff (1897)
A Cardiff Ghost Story. Haunted House in Roath. Strange Experiences. Mysterious knockings heard. “It is not often,” writes one of our representatives,”that it falls to the Pressman’s lot to investigate the strange phenomena of the
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