More Ulster Ghosts. Haunted Farm House. Mysterious Fusilades of Stones. The Police Baffled. (Special Telegram) Belfast, Friday. An extraordinary affair is reported from Mullaghmena, a country district, about two miles from Omagh, Co. Tyrone. It
Continue ReadingLatest finds
Mortlake, London (1906)
Mortlake Mystery. Workmen using a large stone shed on the bank of the Thames near Mortlake have been startled by strange noises, sharp as a rifle shot, as of something striking the corrugated iron roof.
Continue ReadingWallasey, Merseyside (1885)
Mysterious stone throwing at Seacombe. For some time past the inhabitants of Church-road, Bellevue-road, and other adjacent parts of these usually quiet portions of the ancient village of Seacombe-cum-Poulton have been considerably exercised in their
Continue ReadingCoventry, West Midlands (1926)
Mysterious stone-throwing. Mrs Hannah Mawson, 127 Windmill Road, Foleshill, pleaded “not Guilty” through Mr S.F. Snape, to comitting 10s damage to a roof at Foleshill, the property of William George Wagstaff, 278, Grange Road, Foleshill.
Continue ReadingParis, France (1884)
Although the working classes of Paris have very little belief in religion, they occasionally show that they have a lively horror of the supernatural. During the last few days, the inhabitants of a populous quarter
Continue ReadingUdhagamandalam (Ooty), Tamil Nadu, India (1888)
Ghosts in Ootacamund. Ootacamund has had a crop of singular phenomena, some of more recent occurrence than others. Some time since, in a house occupied by a family, the dining table was found tilted one
Continue ReadingPlattsburg, Wallsend, New South Wales (1877)
A Real Ghost Story. A deal of excitement has been caused in Plattsburg by the rumour that a certain house in Devon street was haunted. On Monday night a large number of people assembled in
Continue ReadingHomebush, New South Wales (1930)
Shades of the Guyra Ghost. Homebush police are investigating the most mysterious crime in their district for the year – ghostly stone-throwing which continues each night from 7 o’clock to midnight. One house in Bridge
Continue ReadingManchester (1835)
A Ghost Story. At the latter end of last and the commencement of the present week, the most strange stories were told of a ghost that had fixed its nightly abode in the office of
Continue ReadingDoora, County Clare (1885)
An Irish Ghost. A remarkable ghost story is reported from Doora, near the town of Ennis. It is asserted that a ghost appeared in the dwelling of a small farmer, named Hefferenam, and extinguished fires
Continue Reading