London Ghost Plays Piano (Organ Effects). A ghost which has already driven out the lodgers is now driving a widow and her 23-year-old daughter from their home in Golders Green, N.W. For three months they
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Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), South Africa (1938)
Spirit Triumphant. An old mansion at Port Elizabeth now stands empty, the aroma of burned joss sticks mingling with mysterious tappings on the walls and the occasional splintering of window panes. Until recently it was
Continue ReadingGuyra, New South Wales, Australia (1921)
Queer manifestations near the Queensland Border. “Mediumistic” Girl. Sydney (received to-day). Weird events, which attracted a great amount of attention here, occurred at Guyra, a small place near the Queensland border. The Sydney correspondent of
Continue ReadingSalzburg, Austria (1928)
Salzburg and the Housing Problem. Even a ghost has taken a hand in Salzburg’s housing problem. In a block of flats, where the owner of a house wants a certain family to leave it, between
Continue ReadingSwaffham, Norfolk (1780)
Norfolk Farm-house “Ghost.” The following singular letter, dated Swaffham, March 1st, 1780, appeared in the “Norwich Mercury” in the year named:- “There is a circumstance that hath lately very much excited the curiosity of many
Continue ReadingSowerby Bridge, Halifax, West Yorkshire (1955)
Driven from their home by “ghosts.” From our own correspondent. Hebden Bridge, Thursday. Councillors and officals at Sowerby Bridge are facing one of their strangest jobs – what to do about a haunted cottage that
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Haunted by phantom hound. Huge ghostly dog through which kicks pass unobstructed. Screams and rustling. (From our own correspondent). Matlock, Nov. 13. – Just over the border of Derbyshire, in Staffordshire, at Ipstones, stands a
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Uproarious ghost. Bangs, crashes and stealthy steps. Dog thrown down the stairs. Bed seized and shaken. Oxspring, near Penistone, a village with few inhabitants, has a weird phenomenon troubling it. Some would have it that
Continue ReadingBaldock, Hertfordshire (1878)
Considerable alarm has been felt by the younger portion of the inhabitants of Baldock, by the rumour that a real live ghost was haunting a house at the top of the High-street. A large number
Continue ReadingLoudoun Hill, East Ayrshire (1869)
Another mysterious affair at present engaging the attention of the police is in the Loudoun Hill. For about a month past the family have been annoyed by violent knocking at the doors and windows during
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