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Hounslow, London (1969)

February 5, 2023May 30, 20251960s, London

The ghost did not want to be interviewd. Reporters’ 1a.m. ‘sit-in’. By Penny Hopkirk. There’s something peculiar going on in Hounslow. Once there were gibbets on Highwayman’s Heath where the hanged bodies were brought from

Midgley, West Yorkshire (1909)

February 5, 2023February 5, 20231900s, West Yorkshire

I imagine this could be ‘The Greaves’. Midgley Mystery. Curious visitation at ancient homestead. Unaccountable rappings. The superstitious and those believing in the uncanny who reside in Midgley have had a great topic for their

Ballymun, Dublin (1989)

February 5, 2023February 5, 20231980s, County Dublin

Family flee ‘Satan’ home! By Dave Mullins. A family have fled from their north Dublin home after weird paranormal events involving mystery fires and a child’s ‘vision of Satan’. A priest was called to the

Taunton, Somerset (c.1940s)

February 4, 2023February 4, 20231940s, Somerset

Uncanny hauntings. Paranormal door-banging. By H.J. Channon. Four years ago I wrote a series of articles for the Herald on uncanny hauntings. One house in particular, not three miles from Taunton, interested me. I got

Hounslow, London (1956)

February 4, 2023February 4, 20231950s, London

£1 note thief is a spook. The thieving poltergeist has overdone it. He has taken £1 too many from the Hankins of Hounslow. For four years 28-year-old Clifford Hankin and his wife have been missing

Leicester (1991)

February 4, 2023February 4, 20231990s, Leicestershire

Family bid to rid home of spirit presence. By Marianne Jones. A family today claimed they were being plagued by a ghost that leaves patches of water which then vanish throughout their Leicester home. The

Lincoln (1990s)

February 4, 2023February 4, 20231990s, Lincolnshire

The ghosts of two children are believed to be haunting a Lincoln home. And the hauntings centre around the airing cupboard of the Tilt family’s Victorian property off Monks Road. The couple told the L

Hampstead, London (1948)

February 4, 2023February 4, 20231940s, London

Charlie the ghost takes a fancy to fish. It isn’t safe to leave things lying around in a basement flat in Adamson-road, Hampstead, London. Residents say it is haunted – by a hunchback ghost they

Cape Town, South Africa (1904)

January 31, 2023January 31, 20231900s, South Africa

Cape Town “Ghosts”. Knives, crockery, glass and furniture thrown about. Cape Town has been suffering from a ghostly presence which has thrown knives, crockery, glass and stones through the air, banged furniture about, and knocked

Shard End, Birmingham (1996)

January 31, 2023January 31, 20231990s, West Midlands

Boy’s terror in house of the vampire. A six-year-old boy has fled his Birmingham home because he believes a ghostly woman and her little girl are haunting him. Terrified Adam Hemming has refused to set