Curate battles against plague of poltergeists. City families in grip of fear. By Paul Markillie. Families in north Cambridge are being plagued with poltergeists – hurling objects around their homes and terrifying young children. A
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Itchen Abbas, Hampshire (1907)
Itchen Abbas. The “Ghost” Scare. In the course of domestic duties in one of the bedrooms at the Itchen Common farmhouse the woodman’s daughter, who is in service there, is alleged to have seen to
Continue ReadingAughadown, County Cork (1864)
Strange Manifestations at Aughadown Glebe. – For some months past the most unaccountable noises have been heard in Aughadown Glebe, commencing each evening precisely at ten o’clock p.m., and only during the absence from home
Continue ReadingKinvarra, County Galway (1954)
Hundreds Flocking to ‘Ghost Town.’ The whole country is talking about Kinvara and already hundreds of people have visited what has become known throughout the length and breadth of the country as “Ghost Town.” What
Continue ReadingAlkrington, Manchester (1983)
There’s a ghost in my house! Alkrington grandmother Mrs Margaret Barlow did not stand a ghost of a chance when things started to go bump in the night. Only weeks after she moved into her
Continue ReadingBesançon, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France (1998)
No need for exorcism, priest rules. When 20 astonished parishioners in a French village saw a lighted candle spin through the air and smash against a church pillar last weekend, the Catholic Archbishop of Besançon
Continue ReadingDublin (1995)
How we bust the ghost of Ashtown Castle. Gerry Minihane dabbles in the spirit world. I went in search of paranormal, equipped only with natural scepticism and ghost buster Sandra Ramdhanie. The call had come
Continue ReadingSalford, Greater Manchester (1972)
Family fear being gassed by a ghost. By David Bainton. A fat ghost who fiddles with the gas taps has put a Salford family in fear of their lives. And they have been driven to
Continue ReadingStoke Golding, Leicestershire (1995)
Spooked by ‘sitting tenant.’ A new pub landlady has been completely spooked by a sitting tenant. When Michelle Johnston first moved into the Three Horse Shoes at Stoke Golding, she didn’t count on sharing it
Continue ReadingCharbon, NSW, Australia (1928)
“Ghostly” knockings at Charbon. The following interesting paragraph is vouched for by a Mudgee journalist:- There is more than a suspicion that a near relative of the Guyra ghost has strayed to Charbon, the cement
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