Monkey Tricks at a Hall. Unwelcome Intruder at South Reston. South Reston Hall, between Louth and Alford, has had an unwelcome visitor during the last few days. A monkey, believed to have escaped from an
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Tiverton, Devon (1887)
A “ghost story” from Tiverton is to the effect that a family in the neighbourhood were alarmed by strange manifestations. Bells were unaccountably run in various parts of the house; the housemaid was summoned to
Continue ReadingSyracuse, New York, USA (1884)
A Strange Story. Sort of a meteoric display around the bed of a sick man. A Syracuse dispatch to the New York World says:- Richard Stevens, a well-to-do farmer, who resides with his wife and
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Selby “Ghost” Story. Weird Sounds in a Labourer’s Cottage. Strange death-chamber scene. Mysterious rappings in a labourer’s cottage at Selby have set the whole town agog with excitement, and the house in South Parade has
Continue ReadingFleetwood, Lancashire (1943)
Spiritualists hold seance in mystery house. Strange noises end after investigation. First a plumber, then the police, and finally Spiritualists were called into a house in Poulton-road, Fleetwood, to investigate mysterious knocking sounds that seemed
Continue ReadingAberarth, Ceredigion (1909)
Rapped in Mystery. Weird events in a Welsh village. The inhabitants of the little village of Aberarth, which lies on the shores of Cardigan Bay, are much perturbed at the extraordinary happenings in two houses.
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Three Raps Mysterious Noises at a Staveley Inn. Certain noises which have been recently heard at a Staveley Inn have given rise to alarm on the part of the occupants of the house – a
Continue ReadingCullompton, Devon (1925)
Spirit Rapping? Baffling mystery at Cullompton. Intense interest has been aroused at Cullompton by some mysterious knockings at the front door of Mr. J. Harris’s house at the top of Exeter-hill. The rappings have been
Continue ReadingLeeds, West Yorkshire (1945)
Horsforth ‘poltergeist’ busy. Police puzzled but medium stops raps. In the old-world, rosebush flanked district of Woodside, Horsforth, 75-year-old Mrs. Annie Eanor lives in fear with her daughter, Mrs. Lily Wrighton, and her granddaughter, Gladys,
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Strange doings at a Leeds house. Poltergeist or a practical joker? By a “Yorkshire Post” Reporter. Two Leeds police officers searched a terrace house in Headingley last night for a “ghost” which is said to
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