Armed housewives wait for Gentle George the ghost. Evening Post Reporter. Hollow-eyed through lack of sleep, two Leeds housewives told me today how they had spent last night sat up armed with pokers, waiting for
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Bedfont, Hounslow, London (1948)
‘Headless Ghost in Pre-fab’. By Sunday Dispatch reporter. The ghost of a headless man is causing considerable alarm to people living in prefabricated bungalows in Page-road, Bedfont, Middlesex – so much so that the police
Continue ReadingNottingham (1983)
Our ghost came to play. By Lynne Dixon. Was the strange incident of the Polaroid photograph a warning of the tragic accident that was to come? Mrs Jean Enderby and her 16-year-old daughter Anne often
Continue ReadingCastle Acre, Norfolk (1901)
A Castleacre Ghost. In the current number of “The Eastern Counties Magazine” there is an interesting article on “Castleacre, Westacre, and Southacre,” in which the writer – under the somewhat quaint heading of “The Three
Continue ReadingHitchin, Hertfordshire (1907)
Ghosts in a workhouse. The nurses at Hitchin Workhouse are rebelling against night duty, not because of the extra labour or the additional monotony it brings, but on account of the “agitation, mingled with a
Continue ReadingBostock, Cheshire (1999)
Grade II listed building is re-assembled after 200-mile journey. Mobile home with a difference. By Lindsey Shaughnessy. A 350-year-old house has started another life as a family home five miles down the road. Platt Hall,
Continue ReadingLlandeilo, Carmarthenshire (1989)
Spook nurse curse lifted. A ghost that terrified nurse Melanie Cheetham by moving ornaments and clumping up and down stairs has been sent packing after local vicar Denis Price took action. Melanie, 26, of Llandeilo,
Continue ReadingHull, East Yorkshire (1991)
Poltergeist! Family flee house of terror. Exclusive by Jan Rowe. All packed: Scott and Sammy Collins ready to leave the home they shared with an unwelcome ghostly guest. The terrified Collins family say they have
Continue ReadingElton, Sandbach, Cheshire (1976)
Ghost still up to its tricks. A poltergeist which has terrified a Cheshire farming community resumed its activities today – only hours after an exorcism had been carried out by an Anglican vicar. Ash trays,
Continue ReadingBrigg, Lincolnshire (1928)
Strange rappings. Presbytery haunted by a ghost. Curious noises have recently been heard in a block of buildings attached to the Presbytery, the residence of the Roman Catholic priest at Brigg, Lincs., and they have
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