“Spooks” at Cheriton.Mystic forces in a dug out.Stones and implements hurled about.Ex-councillor’s startling experiences.Canadian soldier corroborates.Sir A. Conan Doyle and Sir W. F. Barrett visit the scene. Cheriton is alive with excitement owing to some
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Yateley, Hampshire (1906)
Mysterious Noises. Haunted Cottage Story. The pretty little Hampshire village of Yateley, situated some three miles over the Surrey border from the scene of the Camberley murder, has a mystery. Mr Gough, a middle-aged, weather-beaten
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A Durham Scare. Mysterious rappings in colliery house Trying to catch the ghost. The residents of Old Moore’s Terrace in the colliery district of Stanley (near Crook) are agog with excitement and alarm over mysterious
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A Ghost At High Littleton. The inhabitants of this sober and well conducted village have been thrown into a state of great perturbation of late in consequence of an alleged being from another world. The
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https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/BL/0001988/18990714/035/0003?browse=False ballechin https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/18990705/410/0008 https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000269/18970701/059/0006 On the Trail of a Ghost. Mr Andrew Lang writes to yesterday’s “Times”: – Apart from personal questions, it would be very interesting if the mysterious noises so
Continue ReadingLeicester (1837)
A Perplexing Plot.For several nights past, Mr Hincks, of Wellington-street, maltster, has been sorely annoyed by some anonymous brewer of mystery and mischief. Night after night, in the dusky hours, some unseen hand has thrown
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A Ghost. The inhabitants of Freeschool-lane, Rochester, have been put into a state of great excitement, by some pranks bearing a strong resemblance to those played off by the Cock-lane ghost. The scene of action
Continue ReadingFinedon, Northamptonshire (1824)
Finedon Ghost. The village of Finedon, in the county of Northampton, has for some time past been greatly agitated, in consequence of an unusual noise heard in the Charity School House. On Christmas Eve, the
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Tale of Mystery. The following curious Narrative appeared in The Morning Chronicle of yesterday: – The inhabitants of a farm-house at Denham, near Tiverton, Devon, have been lately very much disturbed and alarmed by noises,
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Ghost Trickery at Worksop. Amusing manifestations. The freakish spirit laid. A very extraordinary affair has taken place at Worksop, and the people generally were in consequence in a state of great excitement on Saturday morning
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