Capture of a Ghost. For several days a considerable deal of excitement had been caused in the neighbourhood of London-street, Dockhead, in consequence of its being reported, and actually believed by many, that one of
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Catshill, Worcestershire (1869)
Catshill. A Haunted (?) House. There has been quite a sensation here recently, in consequence of stones dropping on and around the weigh bench of a nail shop at Marlbrook, in what is thought to
Continue ReadingTranmere, Merseyside (1866)
Weird Story of Tranmere Sands. A night at the haunted hut. The watch, alarm, and denouement. (From a Correspondent.) “Truth is stranger than fiction.” Some four weeks since there was placed on the beach at
Continue ReadingBute, Argyll and Bute (c.1837)
An Unquiet Spirit. A paragraph has been “going the rounds,” copied from the Hull Packet, entitled “spirit rappings,” from which it appears that some unquiet spirit has taken refuge in a tenement in a lonely
Continue ReadingMaidstone, Kent (1924)
Brass Knob “Ghost.” The practical joker is about again. A “ghost” which persisted in removing the brass knobs off a bedstead has been disturbing a house in Malling Terrace, Maidstone. An elderly couple, Mr William
Continue ReadingAgen, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France (1896)
Interviewing a Ghost. The announcement is gravely made that a ghost has been interviewed by a spiritualist ina haunted house at Agen, in the Department of the Lot-et-Garonne, 73 miles from Bordeaux. The phantom has
Continue ReadingPotters Hill, Birmingham (1876)
Stone-Throwing Extraordinary. About a month since, writes a correspondent, one of those unaccountable cases of stone-throwing occurred at a house situate at Potter’s Hill, Aston, and in the occupation of Mr Dolman, coal merchant, causing
Continue ReadingWeston-super-Mare, Somerset (1851)
A Strange Ghost Story. Much gossip has been occasioned at Weston-super-Mare by a ghost story. John Clark, a gardener, living in a small house near the Infant School, declares that his family, and two labouring
Continue ReadingGreenwich, London (1841)
A Greenwich “Ghost.” Dr A R Wallace tells of a “ghost” which was discovered at Greenwich Hospital about 1841, the story being related to Major Moor by Lieut. Rivers, R.N., a comrade of Nelson. “The
Continue ReadingClonmel, County Tipperary (1906)
Profane Spooks! Extraordinary Pranks. Mysterious manifestations. Particulars of a series of extraordinary and mysterious manifestations which have set the inhabitants of Clonmel all agog for some time past are sent us by our correspondent in
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