The Cookstown Ghost. (From our reporter). Cookstown, Saturday. Cookstown has lately been singled out for the attention of a visitor whose freaks and doings have caused no little wonderment and anxiety. Were the times a
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Norton on Derwent, North Yorkshire (1912)
Clothes Vanish. The town of Norton, Malton, was last night thrown into great excitement by the news that a house in Mill-street, Norton, occupied by Mrs Morley, was haunted, and had been the scene of
Continue ReadingSt. Petersburg, Russia? (1908)
“Haunted” by Electricity. A number of mysterious manifestations having appeared in a house situated near an electric-lighting generating station in St Petersburg, the police made an investigation. The neighbourhood, our correspondent states, had already got
Continue ReadingAbbots Bromley, Staffordshire (1856)
Spiritual Manifestations. Abbot’s Bromley and its neighbourhood, especially the “Hurst,” has done something during the last two weeks to render itself notorious as the scene of what the believers in such things call unearthly manifestations.
Continue ReadingSunderland, Tyne and Wear (1901)
Ghosts or –? A creepy story from Sunderland. A correspondent writes: – During the last few weeks great alarm has been created in one of the streets in the west-end of Sunderland – off Chester
Continue ReadingBurry Port, Carmarthenshire (1899)
A Musical Ghost. Lively Doings At Burry Port. Seen Enveloped in Foam! Somebody at Burry Port has been emulating the Witch of Endor, and has called “spirits from the vasty deep” to trouble the soul
Continue ReadingOghill (Eochaill), County Derry / Londonderry (1870)
Extraordinary Occurrences Near Londonderry. The inhabitants of a place called Ochill, in the county of Derry, and within a few miles of this city, have for some days past been driven to their wit’s end
Continue ReadingConingsby, Lincolnshire (1871)
The Cock-Lane Ghost at Coningsby. Langworth Grange, near Coningsby, the residence of Mrs. Southern and family, has during the last few days been the scene of considerable excitement, arising from the most unaccountable imposition and
Continue ReadingCooneen, County Fermanagh, NI (1913)
(Fivemiletown is in County Tyrone) Mysterious Noises. Weird story from Fermanagh. A comfortable farmhouse in Cornaroosland, a mountainous district of Co. Fermanagh, has been during the past few weeks the scene of mysterious happenings which
Continue ReadingTruro, Cornwall (1821)
A very singular but very mischievous system of annoyance has been carried on for the last day or two, by a person or persons not yet known, who have been amusing themselves by breaking the
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