“Ghost” taps songs to order. “Knockings” begin when girl lies down. Neighbours’ sleepless nights. From our own correspondent. Mountsorrel, To-day. A Mountsorrel schoolgirl, 13 years of age, has for two months been “haunted” by mysterious
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Roodepoort, South Africa (1922)
Mystery Knockings and Blue Flame. Shower of stones from nowhere. Johannesburg, Saturday. For three months mysterious happings have disturbed the home of D. Neaves, chemist’s assistant, at Roodepoort. The house stands on a five-acre plot
Continue ReadingPollokshaws, Glasgow (1878)
A Noisy Ghost at Pollokshaws. For two nights past the minds of people resident in Main Street, Pollokshaws, have been much exorcised concerning a loud knocking heard in the property there at Mr G. Dalrymple’s
Continue ReadingThornton Heath, London (1938)
Terror Night In Home Wrecked By Ghost. Two Sunday Pictorial representatives, Victor Thompson and Lionel Crane, yesterday spent the most amazing day in their lives. In a neat little house at Thornton Heath they saw
Continue ReadingPurassawalkam, Chennai, India (1901)
A Haunted House. A correspondent writes:- “Mr. Fernandez, Assistant Steward in the Lunatic Asylum, who is living in a house in a cul de sac, called Abraham’s lane, in Pursewalkum, reported to the Commissioner of
Continue ReadingTullymoan, Strabane, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (1868)
Tullymoan is near Clady not Claudy. Haunting in Ireland. We should be glad to have a verification of the curious facts stated in the following extract from the Derry Standard:- In this age of common
Continue ReadingDum-Dum, Kolkata, India (1901)
A Haunted House at Dum-Dum. The Patrika publishes the following extraordinary story which, if nothing else will be acceptable at Christmas: – Babu Srihari Kundu is the name of a Railway Police Head Constable, who
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A Haunted Family. ‘Lives made miserable for years.’ Child thrown down well and a baby on a roof. Calcutta, Thursday. A letter of considerable interest to spiritualists appears this morning in a Calcutta newspaper. The
Continue ReadingBayswater, London (1847)
A Mischievous Ghost. (From a Correspondent). The whole of the neighbourhood of Black Lion Lane, Bayswater, is ringing with the extraordinary occurrences that have recently happened in the house of a Mr Williams, in the
Continue ReadingLudgvan, Cornwall (1830)
The Ludgvan Ghost. We last week noticed some strange vagaries lately played by a supposed invisible agent, at Ludgvan, near Penzance, by which the whole neighbourhood was kept in a state of alarm, and the
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