Cock-Lane at Kensington. To the Editor of the Morning Post. Sir, – The undermentioned phenomena are so extraordinary that I feel justified in soliciting a portion of your space wherein to recount them. We live
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Sawston, Cambridgeshire (1804)
Remarkable occurrence. To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. Cambridge, Oct. 7. 1804. Sir, The threat of invasion, and the “dreadful” firing off Boulogne, have been so often repeated in the papers as to have
Continue ReadingBoxley, Maidstone, Kent (1859)
The Haunted House. Mr Martin, of the Ashford Road, in Boxley, near Maidstone, has, for several weeks past, had his household seriously disturbed by a number of mysterious noises, which became pretty regular visitants of
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Flying Coal and Iron. Police investigate at “Haunted House.” Despite police surveillance of a “haunted” house in Lyons, where strange happenings have been reported recently, the curious manifestations continue. No one – material or immaterial
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Spiritualism at Arundel. Extraordinary proceedings are alleged to be happening in King-street, Arundel. In a cottage there resides a man named Clarke, a bricklayer in the service of the Duke of Norfolk, his wife and
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Original? account in Hampshire Telegraph 5th of May 1800 (broken link) The following most extraordinary circumstance is said to have happened at Portsmouth, on Sunday and Monday sennight; for the truth of it we
Continue ReadingSheffield, South Yorkshire (1987)
Not giving in to shop ghost. Aishley Spencer (20) is fighting a ghost to keep her corner shop open all hours. At Auntie Ann’s, in Chesterfield Road, Sheffield, cigarettes are said to jump from ashtrays,
Continue ReadingLerwick, Shetland (1909)
A number of Banffshire girls who are presently at Lerwick at the fishing are having a unique experience. They are, to use their own words, lodging in “an aul’ steen hoosie,” and occupy rooms on
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There is a ghost, and, what is more remakable, a noisy ghost, playing high jinks in a house in the Avenue de Saxe, at Lyons. It is not often that a rowdy specimen of the
Continue ReadingTamil Nadu, India, and Mauritius (c.1904)
Mysterious Showers of Stones At Arcot and Elsewhere. In referring to the report that a mysterious shower of stones had fallen recently at Arcot, a correspondent writes:- The falling of stones, heated and heavy, at
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