Mysterious Rappings at a Marton Dwelling-house. A good deal of excitement and curiosity has been caused by mysterious occurrences at a house at Marton, South Lincolnshire. For some time past the occupiers have been disturbed
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Versailles, Ile-de-France, France (1922)
Rivals to Ghost Lively Scenes at Haunted House Paris, Sunday. The haunted house of Versailles in the Rue Baillet is a popular success. The day before yesterday 200 visitors came between ten and midnight, and
Continue ReadingCoimbra, Centro, Portugal (1910)
Latest Ghost Story. Strange Doings In Portuguese Mansion. A Lisbon telegram to the Central News says:- The newspapers here devote considerable attention to what must surely be one of the most remarkable “ghost stories” of
Continue ReadingLeicester (1926)
Weird Noises in the Night. Strange happenings in home of Russian Poles. Mice or ‘spirit’? Suggestion of vengeance by departed occupant. Amazing stories of spirit-rappings, nerve-wracking groans, terrifying rumbling noises, and sounds suggesting that plaster
Continue ReadingWoodstock, Oxfordshire (1649)
37. Amongst such unaccountable things as these, we may reckon the strange passages that happened at Woodstock in Anno 1649. in the Manor-house there, when the Commissioners for surveying the Manor-house, Park, Deer, Woods, and
Continue ReadingLatheronwheel, Highlands (1838)
A Latheron Ghost. The scene of action has changed amongst the ghosts, and with a “Hey Presto, and be gone,” all the hobgoblins which have been turning the minds of our citizens topsy-turvy have taken
Continue ReadingKing’s Lynn, Norfolk (1902)
Haunted House at Lynn. An Animated Bedstead. The declaration that a house in Windsor Terrace, King’s Lynn, is under the disturbing influences of a visitor from the invisible world has provided the town with a
Continue ReadingValence-en-Brie, Iles-de-France, France (1896 and 1933)
Another French Ghost Story. Just as many Parisians are packing their boxes for a stay on the skirts of the health-giving forest of Fontainebleur the news came that Beelzebub, or a ghost of diabolical tendencies,
Continue ReadingAgny, Arras, Haute-de-France, France (1906)
Rustic Superstition. A queer haunted house story comes from the village of Agny, near Arras. In the commune lives a family of small peasant proprietors, named Caron, which is just now full of tragio-comic misery.
Continue ReadingIlkeston, Derbyshire (1906)
“Ghosts” at Ilkeston. Mysterious rappings heard. A mild sensation has been caused in Ilkeston by rumours circulated broadcast on Saturday evening that “ghosts” were astir in a house in Albert-street. No forms were said to
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