The priest and priestesses of this “unorganised Shamanism” are blind men called pansus and the women termed mutangs. If you could only forget the horrid meaning of it all, the dancing of the mutang in
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Continue ReadingNewton-le-Willows, Merseyside (1968)
Night visitor was a ghost. Priest is asked to bless a council house. Western Daily Press Reporter. A council house tenant in Newton-le-Willows, Lancs, fell and injured her jaw – after meeting a ghost outside
Continue ReadingHinckley, Leicestershire (1973)
Evil spirit exorcised from town flat. A Hinckley family’s months of fear and uncertainty ended one day last week after the Rev. John Tonkin, Vicar of Holy Trinity, and Canon Lindsay Godfrey, former Canon Missioner
Continue ReadingGillingham, Kent (1969)
Lullaby in the night at home of “haunted” little girl. By Ronald Ricketts. A mother claimed last night that her three-year-old daughter Carol is being haunted by a ghost. It makes Carol talk and talk,
Continue ReadingBalquhidder, Perthshire (1820s?)
The Balquhidder Ghost. In a wild sequestered nook of the pastoral and poetical braes of Balquhidder, stands a fair stone house and garden, which have been untenanted for years, in consequence of the supposed visitations
Continue ReadingBucknall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire (1967)
“Snarling” council house ghost terrifies city mother. A terrified mother claimed today that her corporation home was haunted by a snarling ghost. And as she sat with her arms around one of her five children,
Continue ReadingSittingbourne, Kent (1959)
Girl says she saw ghost of woman in white in shop cellar. Strange events during recent weeks have convinced Miss Berenice Seager, proprietor of a ladies’ hairdressing salon in London Road, Sittingbourne, that the premises
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Vicar fed up with ghosts. News Chronicle Reporter. The vicar of Ham, the Thames-side village near Richmond, Rev. Ernest Beard, B.A. is fed up with poltergeists, he told me yesterday. He was uncertain which was
Continue ReadingLeicester (1946)
Weird happenings at Leicester vicarage. Nocturnal incidents in St Margaret’s Vicarage, Church-gate, Leicester, lead the Vicar and his wife to suggest that their home is haunted. They certainly accept the theory that “a mischief-making poltergeist”
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