Visitations from a ghost. Merthyr family’s claim. “Lady in white” takes money. Twenty-four-year-old David Jones and his wife, Mrs Dilys Jones, with their 18-months-old child, have left their home at 8, King Street, Caepantywyll, Merthyr,
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Whaplode, Lincolnshire (1937)
Ghost in Whaplode Cottage. Beautiful girl walks from cupboard. Legend of a murdered gipsy. A strange experience. Our picture shows the three brothers, Messrs. Ebenezer, Herbert and George Hy. Watkins, who reside in
Continue ReadingBarkston, Lincolnshire (1856)
Barkston. Spirit Rapping. This hitherto quiet village has for the last three weeks been in a most tremendous state of excitement, owing to a report, somewhat extensively circulated, that a supernatural manifestation occurs in one
Continue ReadingLlangunllo, Powys (1737)
In 1737, the house of Edward Roberts, in the Parish of Llangynllo, came to pass a strange thing. As the servant-man was threshing, the threshel was taken out of his hand and thrown upon the
Continue ReadingLlanllechid, Gwynedd (1758)
In Carnarvonshire. About the year 1758, at the house of a certain farmer, in the Parish of Llanllechyd, there was a great disturbance from an evil Spirit, casting stones into and about the house, beating
Continue ReadingYnyshir, Rhondda Cynon Taf (1893)
A ghostly visitant at Ynyshir. Extraordinary story. An Ynyshir correspondent writes: – The inhabitants of Ynyshir in general, and of 12, Whitting street, in particular, have been very much perturbed of late by the ghostly
Continue ReadingKennington Green, London (1903)
A Kennington mystery! For some time past mysterious showers of small, blackish stones have fallen in Kennington, near the Oval cricket ground and Kennington Green, both in daylight and after dark. Several persons have seen
Continue ReadingWoodville, Staffordshire (1878)
The Ghost. The age of superstition has not yet passed away from the minds of some people in this neighbourhood. For the past week or ten days, it is said, some supernatural being has haunted
Continue ReadingGrand View-on-Hudson, New York, USA (1908)
Murder mystery of long ago solved by diggers in trench. (From Saturday Night’s Sporting Extra of the Free Press). New York, Aug. 29. In one of the beautiful old houses overlooking the Hudson, at Grand
Continue ReadingEvishbrack, County Tyrone (1906)
( Eibhis Breac / Evishbrack is near Kildress) An Extraordinary Tale of Bewitchment in Tyrone. Tyrone seems to be a happy hunting-ground for ghosts. The “Cookstown ghost” attained much notoriety in its day, and later
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