Troublesome ghosts. There is now reported to be a haunted house at Aubigny la Ronce, near Dijon. It is occupied by the Gerard family, who are kept awake regularly every night by most obstreperous ghosts,
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Southsea, Hampshire (1923)
Tale of a timepiece Mysterious movement in a Southsea house. Most people have read of household furniture and fittings being moved by unseen hands. Though there is no longer a general belief in spooks and
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There is no mistake about the latest spook. It is the genuine article, if ever there was one, and the setting, moreover, could not be more appropriate. An old-fashioned, creeper-covered inn, of great antiquity,
Continue ReadingWeeley, Essex (1985)
Ghostduster! The charlady spook who does the housework. For sale: A house with all mod cons… and a ghost who does the housework. The phantom charlady cleans the dishes, dusts furniture and tidies the rooms.
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Dunter is a North Country word for the porpoise, which in 1575 was sold in the Newcastle market as food. The porpoise often visits the Tyne and Tees and plays havoc among the salmon by
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Exorcising the ghost of Treves. After the Holy Coat comes the ghost – in Treves, at any rate. Last autumn a rumour gained currency that a house in that city was haunted. Every evening the
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A pair of pliers that walked. “Goings on ” in haunted office. Ringing bell. Sunday Mercury Special. Psychic investigators have failed to solve the mystery of mysterious happenings in a Bristol office, but they are
Continue ReadingNewtownards, County Down (1998)
Downtown ghost on the graveyard shift. Cleaner spooked by case of the moving ashtrays. By Sue Corbett. Radio chiefs have called in a ghost buster to their Downtown station. Things have been going bump in
Continue ReadingCeredigion (1750s)
[Excerpt from] Manners and Customs of the Welsh. From Bingley’s tour round North Wales. The Roman Cavern, in Llanymynech-hill, called Ogo, has been long noted, as the residence of a clan of the fairy tribe,
Continue ReadingTimberbottom, Bradshaw, Manchester (1920s and 1930s)
The Skull House. An account has been given to the public (Roby’s Traditions of Lancashire), of the Skull House, otherwise Timberbottom, in Turton. We went thither, and examined the skulls. One of them is much
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