An American Ghost. About five weeks since, a family residing at the west end of Boston were very much annoyed by strange and disagreeable noises, which occurred at different hours of the night, but especially
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Leeds, West Yorkshire (1922)
Meanwood tenant braves a “ghost.” Not fearful in these days of house scarcity. It has been gravely whispered that one of the new Corporation houses in Bentley Lane, Meanwood, is haunted, and the more timid
Continue ReadingSenghenydd, Caerphilly (1908)
Heard strange knockings. Some admissions of an extraordinary nature were made at the Pontypridd Bankruptcy Court on Tuesday by Charles Hardy, assistant timberman, Tyny-graig-road, Llanbradach. His liabilities included £43 due to eight grocers, and
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– About August, 1674, Mr Basil Wood Junior, Son of Basil aforesaid, living at Exeter, in Devonshire, heard the same kind of Knocking at which, being disturbed, he wrote word of it to his Father
Continue ReadingChatham-Kent, Ontario, Canada (1894)
On Jessep McDowell’s farm, concession 15, Raleigh, there have been supernatural happenings of late which have created a great scare among the farmers of the neighbourhood. A reporter yesterday drove out to investigate, and found
Continue ReadingTrillick, County Tyrone (1880)
The Trillick Ghost. On Sunday evening, as Mr Richie Wilson’s house-keeper was proceeding to the byre to milk, a stone was hurled at her heels. Being alarmed, she returned to the house, and, after relating
Continue ReadingMarkinch, Fife (1927)
The Ghost of Markinch Gasworks. From a Markinch reader. For some time past a strange thing has been going on at the gas works in the village of Markinch. There are two stokers employed at
Continue ReadingTir-Phil, Caerphilly, South Wales (1936)
Left House Because of “Ghost.” Weird noises that were unexplained. People in the township of Tirphil in the Rhymney Valley have been startled by a ghost story. A house on the hillside is believed to
Continue ReadingTiree, Argyll and Bute (1928)
Ghost Story from a Small Village. The island of Tiree, off the Argyle coast, is intrigued by strange events in a house in the small village of Scarinish, tenanted by John McDonald, a ship’s carpenter.
Continue ReadingGlyn Abbey, Carmarthenshire (1946)
Trimsaran Mystery. “Ghost” in lone farm. “Spirit” eludes police. The activities of the “poltergeist” of lonely Glasbury Farm, Glyn Abbey, have provided the people of Trimsaran and other neighbouring villages with a seasonable topic of
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