More Weird Stories Of the Eccleshall Ghost. Extraordinary stories continue to be told concerning the mysterious and ghostly happenings at a house at Eccleshall, an old-world country town in Staffordshire. For weeks past the occupants
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Rannoch Moor, Perth and Kinross (1936)
Rannoch Moor MysteryRailway Workers’ ExperienceFurniture that moved. Reference was made, in a lecture in London last week by the assistant maintenance engineer of the southern area of the L. and N.E. Railway, to an application
Continue ReadingThalassery, India (1931)
Tellicherry is now Thalassery. Strange Experiences of Retired Official. From India, the land of inexplicable mysteries, comes the strange story of a retired official, who is being bullied by ghosts. Poltergeists, or “noisy ghosts,” are
Continue ReadingThatto Heath, Lancashire (1923)
Unexplained Noises. Medium called in to solve house mystery. Amazing incidents, said to have been proved to be beyond the power of practical jokers, are reported from a house in Parliament Street, Thatto Heath, near
Continue ReadingGorefield, Wisbech, Cambridgeshire (1923)
The phantom Samson of Goresfield. Flying washstand. Family beaten at a game of draughts. A correspondent wires: – The Cambridgeshire village of Gorefield, a few miles from Wisbech, is disturbed by the activities of a
Continue ReadingYarmouth, Norfolk (1923)
Another Ghost? Mysterious Missiles in a Yarmouth Row. Exciting Incidents. Something akin to the scenes witnessed some time ago, when a report got abroad that ghosts had been seen in Yarmouth Churchyard, have disturbed Middlegate
Continue ReadingWooster, Ohio (1871)
A Ghost Story. In the city of Wooster, Wayne County, Ohio, a respectable family, named Hoffman, have been haunted and tortured by malignant spirits since June, 1869. Detectives, clergymen, and spiritualists have all failed to
Continue ReadingJarrow, Tyne and Wear (1930)
“Ghost” signals in Morse. Neighbours hunt for Jarrow spook. Eerie raps. A “ghost” that replies to Morse code signals is alarming and mystifying the Henry Street district of Jarrow. Weird scrapings and rappings are heard
Continue ReadingBriston, Norfolk (1901)
If one went to an ironmonger’s and asked for a pound of “goblin tin tacks,” the shopman would doubtless think there was insanity in the line of the purchaser. However, at Breston, near Melton Constable,
Continue ReadingCaernarfon, Gwynedd (1880)
Anglesey and Carnarvonshire notes. By Argus. Nineteenth century superstition. Llanthony Abbey, it seems, is not to have a monopoly of apparitions. Superstition is infectious. Hence it is not surprising to find certain classes in Carnarvon
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