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
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Bolton, 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
Continue ReadingBaravullin, Oban, Argyll and Bute (1921)
“Haunted House” in the Highlands. Psychic Research Students Make Investigations. Extraordinary happenings are reported as having taken place in the house of Donald MacKenzie, postman, who resides at lonely Baravulin, Ledaig, a small hamlet in
Continue ReadingAkron, Ohio, USA (1878)
Pebbles that rain down. According to a Western paper, a family at Akron, Ohio, are pestered by a mystery. Pebbles and stones are thrown at them by invisible hands during the day, and at night
Continue ReadingGalle, Sri Lanka (1932)
Shower of Stones. Eerie Midnight Experience for Indian Hotel Guests. A mysterious rain of stones falls on the roof of a little hotel in Galle, Ceylon, for an hour each night. Exactly at midnight the
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