Sevenhampton. Rural superstition: A haunted house. If credence may be given to the reports which have recently emanated from Sevenhampton, public schools, penny libraries, and the like have not yet destroyed the belief in supernatural
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Stapleford, Nottinghamshire (1923)
Notes of the District. For several weeks past mysterious “rappings” have been heard at nights in houses near Stapleford railway station. Various explanations of the knockings have been forthcoming, and neighbours have inclined to the
Continue ReadingEskragh, County Tyrone (1919)
Prosaic explanation of ghost story. The “Belfast Telegraph” says the “mysterious happenings” at a farmer’s cottage between Omagh and Clogher have been solved. A police officer who visited the scene last week taxed a boy
Continue ReadingEpping, Essex (1924)
Police stoned for 5 hours. Mystery of night bombardment. From our own correspondent, Epping, Monday. Epping police were very much hurt, not to say annoyed, at a stone-throwing “incident” shortly before midnight yesterday. The son
Continue ReadingResau, Brandenburg, Germany (1889)
Laying a ghost. The uneasy spirit that exercised itself within a veritable haunted house in Germany has just been very effectively “laid,” and that not by any canonical or uncanonical form of exorcism, but by
Continue ReadingCaepantywyll, Merthyr Tydfil (1938)
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,
Continue ReadingWhaplode, 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
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