“Spook” Mystery Puzzles Portland. Portland, Ore., July 25. There may be no such things as ghosts. Mrs Lester Humphreys isn’t sure though. The Humphreys home, on Portland Heights, has been the scene recently of “queer
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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (1951)
No solution found to mystery of west coast’s ‘haunted house’. Victoria, B.C. – (BUP) – The ghosts of Glamis Castle and the Tower of London would be hard-pressed to match the mysterious happenings at the
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Haunted house story starts in new place; Ontario has one now. Windsor, Ont., March 15 – Franklin Crandall, a teamster, who lives with his wife and three children on McCawn [McEwan] avenue, has a ghost
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Strange happenings in ‘haunted’ house. Scunthorpe housewife Mrs Evelyn Medex has asked the Borough Council to exchange her present home, because she claims it is haunted. Mother-of-three Mrs Medex (40) moved into the house in
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Things that go bump in the store. Supermarket girls are trying to solve the riddle of the flying Spam tin or the eerie rattling of butcher’s steak knives. The bearded ghost is frightening some of
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Saddlers ghost boy mystery. By Nick Pullen. Mystified staff at Walsall Football Club are trying to trace the identity of an unexplained signing spotted wandering around Bescot Stadium. Several members of the catering department have
Continue ReadingLiverpool (1932)
Psychic – and Poltergeist. Sidelights on ‘ghost’ and other stories; incidents without explanation. By an Echo ghost seeker. Merseyside is, just now, undergoing one of those periodical waves of ‘psychic’ experiences which, once every decade
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Amington Hall for Sale. The Ghostly Drummer and his warning. It is announced that the Amington Hall estate, some two miles on the Warwickshire side of Tamworth, is to be sold by auction in lots
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Strange and Wonderful News from Yowel in Surry; Giving a true and just account of one Elizabeth Burgiss, who was most strangely bewitched and tortured at a sad rate, having several great lumps of
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The queer manifestations at Clwch Dernog were once widely known on the island and attested by several well-known people of their day. And the story goes that the “rough but well-intentioned spirit” used to haunt
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