‘Spooks’ walk with little girl. Omro, Wis., March 29. Mystery surrounding alleged spiritual manifestations whenever Marie Maybourne, 11, appears, today occupied attention of all residents of Omro. Voices from walls, the weird opening and closing
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Beatrice, Nebraska, USA (1888)
Beatrice, Nebraska, is the resort par excellence for the modern romanticist. It boasts of a haunted house wherein sounds like knives and spoons falling to the floor are heard frequently during the night, and doors
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Weird Noises. Now there is a widow living in Louth to-day who can tell a great story of a haunted house. Over fifty years ago, with her husband and family, they occupied a cottage not
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For several days past the family of Signor Pasquali, living in the Calle Goldoni, Venice, has been much upset by a series of mysterious happenings. Violent blows, repeated at long intervals, have made the walls
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Queer happenings at a haunted house in Askam. “Happy” Harry Hodgson is searching for a spiritualist to rid his four-roomed 90-years-old home at Askam of the “ghosts” which have been plaguing his family for the
Continue ReadingShelbyville, Indiana, USA (1900)
A fake ghost alarms and creates a decided sensation in an entire county. Armed men turn out in force to protect a lonely woman who declared her house was haunted. Hair-raising tales of a supernatural
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Ghost fake, say police. Boise, Idaho (AP) – Police say they have determined that the ghost apparently lurking between the floors at a local home was a hoax. Mysterious rapping sounds at the home of
Continue ReadingWalsall, West Midlands (1995)
Exorcist told to evict ghosts with high spirits. Families in a Midland council tower block have taken desperate steps to evict unwanted tenants by calling in a Ghostbuster. Almost everyone living in Victoria House, at
Continue ReadingNorth Shields, Tyne and Wear (1945)
Girl says ghost hand moved pan. A sixteen-year-old North Shields girl claims that at the week-end she saw a pan of water lifted as if by an invisible hand from a stove to a bench.
Continue ReadingCinderford, Gloucestershire (1999)
Family flee home after ghost terror. By Phil Norris. A family of five have fled their home in the Forest of Dean after being plagued by phantom noises and ghostly apparitions. The Davies family, who
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