Things that go bump in the Boyle home. “Nightmare on Hatton Place” is how one Dundee family described last night how life was in their Beechwood home while a poltergeist haunted them for over a
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Great Cornard, Suffolk (1986)
Family living in fear. By Bob Riches. A grandmother and her family are living in fear as a spate of mysterious events haunts them. A distraught Mrs Ellen Cook (68) and her daughter, Audrey Parker,
Continue ReadingReading, Berkshire (1968)
Poltergeist fear at Reading firm. Minister called in for prayers. Strange things have been happening at a Reading firm’s premises. And now a minister has been called in to say prayers in a bid to
Continue ReadingKidderminster, Worcestershire (1986)
Man in ‘ghost’ house alert. By David Benjamin. A senior Stourbridge based official of the National Spiritualist Church today warned a council house tenant not to hold a seance to try and contact ghosts he
Continue ReadingSpreyton, Devon (1682)
The Fourth Relation. Giving an account of the Daemon of Spraiton in the county of Devon, Anno, 1682. That which was published in May 1683, concerning the Daemon, or Daemons of Spraiton, was the extract
Continue ReadingBristol (1638)
The First Relation An account of the troubles that happened in the house of Peter Pain, a shoe-maker, living in Mary Poel Street, in the City of Bristol, extracted out of a letter sent me
Continue ReadingLevenshulme, Manchester (1933)
Home wrecked by “ghost” Society to hold inquiry. The story of a Manchester man who was almost ruined by a ghost, which wrecked his home, terrified the occupants, and caused material damage amounting to £200
Continue ReadingNorroy-le-Veneur, Grand Est, France (1929)
Ghosts milk cows. Terror-stricken villages. The village of Norroy-le-Veneur, between Nancy and Metz, is in a state of terror (says a Central News Paris telegram). Ghosts are abroad which milk cows during the night, lock
Continue ReadingLulworth, Dorset (1825)
The Lulworth Ghost; or, Cock Lane Revived. On vulgar superstition and its firm belief in speaking shadows and apparitions we think it useless at present to descant, as the following facts, which transpired some time
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The curse of a family. Quite recently in France in one of the outskirts of Paris a rumour went quickly from mouth to mouth that a particular family was haunted, and it was said that
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