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Bedminster, Bristol (1865 and previously)

September 22, 2023December 9, 20241860s, Bristol

A short note of rapping in Bedminster.

Holyhead, Anglesey (1957)

September 22, 2023December 9, 20241950s, Isle of Anglesey

House of Mystery. Strange steps, whistling, knocks. By a “Daily Post” reporter. Yesterday morning thirty-four-year-old Mrs Helen Painter, of 3 Cybi Street, Holyhead, lost her ninth lodger since September. And Mrs Painter confirms what the

Perth (1895)

September 22, 2023December 9, 20241890s, Perth and Kinross

A Perth Mystery. Alleged Spirit-Rapping Investigation by the Police For some time back a rather mysterious affair has been troubling the minds of the inhabitants of Market Street, Perth, and is exciting considerable interest, not

Baldarroch, Aberdeenshire (1838)

September 21, 2023December 9, 20241830s, Aberdeenshire

The latest instance of the popular panic occasioned by a house supposed to be haunted, occurred in Scotland, in the winter of the year 1838. On the 5th of December, the inmates of the farm-house

Baltimore, Maryland, USA (1881)

September 16, 2023October 1, 20231880s, USA

The Puzzling of Baltimore’s Police. From the “Baltimore American.” There is reported to be a mysterious visitor hanging about the corner of Frederick and Fayette Streets, who for the past week has been throwing stones

Streatham, London (1962)

September 16, 2023October 1, 20231960s, London

Have those nuns moved into a flat? Ghostly noises, mystery lights alarm couple. Have the ghosts of Coventry Hall nipped smartly through the Streatham High Road traffic to find new haunting grounds? For there have

Orleans, France (1530)

September 16, 2023October 1, 20231500s, France

L’esprit Des Cordeliers D’Orleans, 1534. Memoire inedit de Calvin. (D’apres la minute originale de la main de Charles de Jonvillers, son secretaire). La tres instructive et amusante notice que nous avons publiee ‘sur l’histoire du

Holbeach, Lincolnshire (1927)

September 16, 2023October 23, 20231920s, Lincolnshire

Aged Couple’s Night Horror. Is it a Ghost, or a Heartless Hoax? Wild bellringing from bedroom window. Stones moved, doors slashed and blazing paraffin. An up-to-date ghost equipped with knife, safety razor, paraffin rags, and

Tbilisi, Georgia (1880)

September 16, 2023October 19, 20231880s, Georgia

There is a certain house here, at Tiflis, near the Mooshtaid [Mushthaid/ Mushtaidi] garden, long since deserted on account of its reputation of being haunted. This winter, a strong rumour was suddenly spread about the

Uxbridge, London (1922)

September 8, 2023December 17, 20231920s, London

An Uxbridge “Ghost” and its antics. The alleged presence of a “ghost” in a house and its vicinity in the Cowley-road has aroused a good deal of interest and controversy in the town during the