A Haunted House. Nothing is more characteristic of the present age than the advancement of true philosophy and sound reason over that terrifying superstition and foolish belief in supernatural agencies which so universally prevailed during
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Cheltenham, Gloucestershire (1929)
Mr “Whatever-it-is.”Ghostly visitant at Maud’s Elm.Seances from 11pm to 3am.Replies reserved for the ladies.Swindon-roaders stay up to listen. Something spooky has been happening in Swindon-road, Cheltenham. There, on Wednesday night, several hundreds of the inhabitants
Continue ReadingAltamullen, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland (1927)
Unseen footsteps, bangings, and rattlings.Mysterious happenings at a Tyrone farm-house. Strange happenings are reported to have taken place recently at a farm house at Altamullen, some miles from Killeter, where the occupants, a highly respectable
Continue ReadingHornsey, London (1921)
Coals Weird Tricks. Mystified London Family. “Haunted coal” has been causing alarm to Mr and Mrs I S Frost and their family at Ferrestone-road, Hornsey, London, by producing a series of explosions and leaping from
Continue ReadingMontrouge, Paris, France (1892)
The House in the Rue de Couedic. Paris is in the possession of a popular feature in the shape of a haunted house, which crowds are flocking to see. It is situated in the Rue
Continue ReadingByker, Newcastle (1964)
Blind city woman says ‘It’s eerie’Switch puzzle scares family. The Newcastle home of a blind woman and her two children has become a house of fear. Strange, unexplained things keep happening to the electric switches
Continue ReadingBattersea, London (1928)
The Battersea “Ghost.” House bombarded by crowd. Following a report that it was haunted, a house in Eland-road, Battersea, was surrounded by a large crowd, including hundreds of school children, yesterday, and missiles were thrown,
Continue ReadingHalton Holegate, Spilsby, Lincolnshire (1897)
Halton Holegate – An Unravelled Mystery. The usually quiet and even-balanced minds of the inhabitants of this neighbourhood have recently undergone a severe shock, through the spreading about of an insidious rumour to the effect
Continue ReadingGravesend, Kent (1897)
Something like a ghost. People pelted with coal. Excitement was occasioned in Gravesend on Saturday by the report of an occurrence at 26, Wrotham-road, a street adjoining the Kent County Cricket Ground. The house is
Continue ReadingKeighley, West Yorkshire (1924)
The Haunted Millgirl. By J. Hewat McKenzie. In the beginning of May of this year Sir Arthur Conan Doyle brought to my notice a letter which had reached him from the manager of a woollen
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