Fifty Years Ago, Nov. 17, 1874. Freaks of a Ghost. A correspondent writes: “Emsworth has for the past nine or ten days been in quite a state of excitement on account of the nocturnal visits
Continue ReadingLatest finds
Craig Island, Trinidad and Tobago (1911)
Stone throwing diablesse at Craig Island. Weird happenings at midnight. Extraordinary experiences of a party. Here is a queer story from Craig Island and it is rare that one is told such stories in Trinidad,
Continue ReadingLondon (1831)
Strange Doings. (From a Correspondent). On Tuesday evening last, as a policeman of the D division was going his rounds, between eight and nine o’clock, he was called to by some women residing at No.
Continue ReadingHinckley, Leicestershire (1990s)
Wallpaper shop is haunted claim staff. By our resident ghost writer Helen Knott. Strange things have been going on at the Wallpaper Warehouse on the Hollycroft Road in Hinckley, according to staff who work there.
Continue ReadingLoughborough, Leicestershire (1927)
Eerie noises startle four families. Mysterious sounds in new houses. Loughboro’ ‘ghost’. Ghostly sounds at night have alarmed four families at Loughborough; they have been scared so much that they have tried, without success, to
Continue ReadingIndia (1890s?)
Enmore Stone-throwing. To the Editor. Sir, – The Enmore stone-throwing mystery recalls an incident of a similar nature which happened in the house of a friend of mine in a Moffusil [rural] town in India,
Continue ReadingEnmore, Sydney, Australia (1894)
Another case of Stone-throwing. Sydney, Wednesday, 7 p.m. Another case of stone-throwing, similar to the one which recently occurred in the Maclean district, has occurred at Enmore, where the residents of two houses had their
Continue ReadingAdamstown, New South Wales, Australia (1894)
Stone throwing at Adamstown. An extraordinary case. Alderman Jennings and family, of Gosford-road, Adamstown, have been greatly annoyed, and the safety of their persons endangered during the past three weeks, by the conduct of some
Continue ReadingNewcastle, New South Wales, Australia (1899)
Waratah. Mysterious stone-throwing. For several nights past there has been considerable excitement at Georgetown in consequence of mysterious stone-throwing at the residence of Mr Benjamin Tonks, a well-known, peaceable, and law-abiding citizen of many years
Continue ReadingSydney, New South Wales, Australia (1899)
Mysterious bombardments. “Lately there has been a slump in stone-throwing mysteries,” says the “Sydney Daily Telegraph” of Feb. 24, “but last night two young men walked into the Petersham police station and stated that they
Continue Reading