Pictures stated to move in charwoman’s presence. Some amazing statements regarding Sarah Jane Ward, a Pudsey charwoman, were made at Leeds Assizes yesterday. Ward, who is only twenty-seven years of age, pleaded guilty to setting
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Maryport, Cumbria (1926)
Haunted House Scare Puzzling Phenomena in Maryport House. A rumour that a house in Grasslot, Maryport, is haunted is causing the district to seethe with excitement. During the week-end the police dispersed large crowds assembled
Continue ReadingBarrow-in Furness, Cumbria (1907)
Spooks at Barrow. Weird noises and vanishing bedclothes. Newly-married couple’s experiences. The supposed discovery of a haunted house has created considerable excitement at Barrow. The rumour has arisen in connection with a certain house in
Continue ReadingHalifax, West Yorkshire (1912)
Coal from the sky. Weird happenings in the Hope Hall district. Black diamonds roll mysteriously downstairs. Is it a spook? Spiritualists on the scene. Weird and strange happenings, causing considerable consternation amongst not a few
Continue ReadingGreat Bealings, Suffolk (1834)
Bealings Bells. An account of the mysterious ringing of bells, at Great Bealings, Suffolk, in 1834; and in other parts of England: with relations of father unaccountable occurrences, in various places; by Major Edward Moor,
Continue ReadingGenoa, Liguria, Italy (1912)
Ghosts Aboard a Ship. Police watchers “struck with an invisible shovel.” A startling ghost story comes from Genoa, says a Milan message. A brigantine called the Speme, lying in the harbour there, reported that the
Continue ReadingIslandmagee, County Antrim, NI (1711)
Trial of Eight Reputed Witches at Carrickfergus in 1711. A correspondent has supplied us (Standard) with copious extracts from an old pamphlet, entitled “A narrative by an eye-witness, of some strange events that took place
Continue ReadingBirtley, Tyne and Wear (1892)
Ghost Hunting in Durham. The villagers of Birtley, near Newcastle, have been much excited of late by strange sounds heard in the house of a miner named Wild. The walls and roof have been pierced
Continue ReadingBuckfastleigh, Devon (1847)
Remarkable Occurrence. A lady has lately been staying at a house in the neighbourhood of Buckfastleigh, in this county, where the following unaccountable noises were heard by different members of the family: – On the
Continue ReadingHolme, Cumbria (1823)
A Ghost or something else!! A respectable farmer and his family, at Holme, near Burton-in-Kendal, have for some weeks back, been much annoyed and disturbed in the night, by a strange kind of noise, as
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