Chelsea’s Ghost. Three people see spectre that has banged on doors for years. Steps on stairs. Chelsea is still the haunt of at least one alarming ghost. This apparition has lately been terrifying the occupants
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Cheadle, Manchester (1933)
Ghost with a stoop. Family of five terrorised. Hasty retreat. Mistaken for a burglar! A family of five have been driven from their home at Cheadle, near Manchester, by the strange behaviour of a ghost,
Continue ReadingHydesville, New York, USA (1848)
Raps of Spirits. We give the following account of doings in the United States, in a slight degree resembling those of our Cock-lane ghost, from F. Douglass’s North Star: – Some time since, I do
Continue ReadingLondon (1796)
An absurd story of a Ghost (similar to that in Cock-lane) has been raised with some artful design, at a house in Newcastle-court, near Temple-bar; and for some days a set of idle fellows, some
Continue ReadingSaffron Hill, London (1792)
Haunted house. We give place to the following to amuse our readers, not to impose on their credulity: They will consider it as a story similar to the Cock-lane ghost, or the dancing plates and
Continue ReadingDrayton, Norfolk (1786)
A phaenomena, like that of the Cock-lane ghost, has made its appearance at the village of Drayton, near this city. In the apartment of a young woman is heard loud and unaccounted-for noises, which in
Continue ReadingPlymouth, Devon (1767)
Extract of a letter from Plymouth, Nov. 21. “The conversation of this town in engrossed with a surprizing affair that has happened here, something similar to the Cock-lane ghost: – A gentleman of the law
Continue ReadingPaisley, Renfrewshire (1818)
Haunted House. For about two months the inhabitants of a three-story house, in Lady-lane of Paisley, were alarmed with an unusual sound in the night time. At first it created no great sensation, it having
Continue ReadingNorthwood, Shropshire (1811)
Haunted House. The inhabitants of Northwood Green, near Wem, Cambridgeshire [sic, evidently Shropshire] are in the utmost consternation, in consequence of some extraordinary disturbances in a house near the turnpike. Brick bats, stones, and lumps
Continue ReadingShepshed, Leicestershire (1839)
A Grammatical Ghost. For some time past, the inhabitants of Sheepshead have been greatly alarmed – not at the armed Chartists, but at something more etherial, though, by the way, most persons are of opinion,
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