A girl of the name of McCarthy was brought into bridewell on Sunday, under circumstances not very usual in this part of the country. She had been playing the ghost in the house of a
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Benha, Egypt (1958)
His Dancing Furniture Scares Lieutenant. “Ghosts” raid flat: advised to seek aid of medium. Benha (Egypt), Saturday. After reporting to his own police station that “ghosts” had raided his flat, First Lieutenant Sinout Hanna Barsoum,
Continue ReadingBroadstairs, Kent (1908)
Broadstairs Ghost Story. A circumstantial story of mysterious midnight sounds and happenings in a house in the centre of Broadstairs has aroused intense curiosity among residents there, according to the special correspondent of the “Daily
Continue ReadingNottingham (1929)
Eerie Chords at Dead of Night. Curious happenings in house. Ghosts in the Night? Strange noises in a Nottingham house. Piano struck. Chord reminiscent of dead relative. The piano being played in the middle of
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1875)
A “Ghost” in Bolton. Residents in Bridge-street have for some days past been thrown into a state of interesting flutter, if not of consternation, by the announcement that a ghost has taken up his quarters
Continue ReadingNashmills, Hertfordshire (1850s?)
I remember a curious circumstance which occurred some few years ago at the house of a Mr Tyers, Nash Mills, a village a few miles the other side of Watford, in Hertfordshire. All of a
Continue ReadingGreenock, Renfrewshire (1858)
A Haunted House. The Greenock correspondent of the North British Mail says, “It will scarcely be credited, but it is not the less true, that a rumour is afloat that a garret house in a
Continue ReadingHope Cove (Outer Hope and Inner Hope), Devon (1858)
A Ghost at Hope. – A correspondent sends us the following, of which we give his own version: – “A few days since or rather nights, a very singular circumstance occurred at one of the
Continue ReadingElgin, Moray (1829)
Something Mysterious. Touching the subject of ghosts, apparitions, spectres, and all the tribe of supernaturals, there is as great a diversity of opinion in the country, as exists on the Catholic Question, the Apocrypha Controversy,
Continue ReadingHull, East Yorkshire (1939)
“Haunted House” Mystery Terrifies Hull Children. Hull has a “haunted” house. In it, during the past month, there have been, night after night, mysterious knockings, tappings, scratchings – and even mattress bouncing – until the
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