Making some sense of the inexplicable by Nick Wood Hallowe’en has been ritualised into a time of pumpkins, lanterns and young scamps tricking and treating on our doorsteps. But the evening of October 31 also
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Shard End, Birmingham (1982)
Mystery force drives family from their home. A terrified Birmingham family have fled their home and moved in with neighbours because, they claim, a poltergeist began wrecking their possessions. They say a strange force disrupted
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Jewel case bail. Stephanie Wickenden, 22, of 119 St Johns Road, Tunbridge Wells, who is pleading not guilty to dishonestly assisting in the removal and disposal of stolen jewellery between January 22 and February 9,
Continue ReadingPolgear, Wendron, Cornwall (1896)
The Galloping Horse. The usually quiet and peaceful district of Polgear, Wendron, has been disturbed by the apparently aimless eccentricities of what is termed by superstitious people, a ghost. This fortunately rare commodity has favoured
Continue ReadingBury St Edmunds, Suffolk (1842)
A knocking ghost! To the Editor. Sir, – That the peasantry of Suffolk were famed of old in the use of superstitious observances, and a belief in supernatural appearances, is not so much to be
Continue ReadingRosendael, Dunkirk, Nord, France (1890s)
[…] Another “scare” occurred not long ago at Rosendael, a village situated at the gates of Dunkirk, where a certain house was without warning invaded by the very mischievous “sprites” who pelt passers-by with stones
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Spooks and Bogies in Flanders. In the villages adjoining Dunkirk, and in the streets adjacent to the harour, where the sailors and their families reside, supernatural agencies and manifestations are firmly believed in. Certain old
Continue ReadingNailcote House, Coventry, West Midlands (1938)
Probing the secrets of Old Nailcote House. Where queer things happen There was once a murder here! Is this Elizabethan house haunted? Standing alone, ivy-clad and mysterious, behind a barrier of trees which almost obscure
Continue ReadingEarl Shilton, Leicestershire (1988)
Hector – our happy ghost. “He’s such a help around the house.” By Marc Astley. An Earl Shilton couple have found themselves an unlikely home help in the form of a friendly ghost! The perfecct
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Garage hands reckon friendly phantom’s on the night shift. A modern-day Elves and Shoemakers tale is unfolding at the garage in Fort Road, Margate. Staff at the Thanet Test Centre have been mystified by the
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