Torquay woman hopes she has laid a chair ghost – with her axe. Two Torquay houses are having “ghost trouble” and the occupiers are wondering if the chopping up of a “haunted” chair will bring
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Ladywood, Birmingham (1955)
Have YOU the guts to live in this house? By Derek Agnew. To let: Pleasant three-bedroom house. Older type but newly and tastefully decorated. All mod. con. Ample storage room incl. cellar. In quiet road
Continue ReadingChorley, Lancashire (1954)
Dog goes mad. Chorley couple “now believe in ghosts.” Since moving into a Standish street house 17 months ago, a Chorley couple, Mr Allan Mather and his 21-year-old wife, have been troubled by peculiar noises
Continue ReadingChirk, Wrexham (1955)
‘Morose Italian’ driving three families from their homes. Three families at the Welsh border village of Chirk are appealing to the council to rehouse them because they claim that a “morose Italian” haunts their wooden
Continue ReadingIsleworth, London (1963)
They will face cold, but not the ghost. A young couple and the wife’s mother yesterday left the 10-roomed house to wander the streets in the cold and sleep in railway station waiting rooms because,
Continue ReadingLichfield, Staffordshire (1994)
Antique setting for ‘ghost’. A Lichfield antiques shop is getting ready to do battle with real ghosts and ghouls as Hallowe’en approaches. The Cathedral Antique Centre in Dam Street has been pestered by a spectre
Continue ReadingAuldgirth, Dumfries and Galloway (1993 and some decades)
Farmhouse haunting horror. Most people will have fun this weekend celebrating Hallowe’en but ghosts have a far more sinister influence on the lives of one Dumfriesshire family… The McNay family – who live in an
Continue ReadingBolton, Lancashire (1910)
Noisy “Ghost” in Bow-st. Strange knockings and moving lights. Hand through a man-hole. The residents at a shop and house in Bow-st. are becoming very much excited and distressed by what they believe to be
Continue ReadingPreston Bissett, Buckinghamshire (1840)
A farmer of Preston Bissett, named Heley, has for some time been much annoyed and terrified by his house being haunted. After retiring to rest (his daughter sleeping in the same room), they were, at
Continue ReadingBrigg, Lincolnshire (1994)
A Ghost Story. A Brigg correspondent says that some of the inhabitants of Change Alley, Wrawby-street, Brigg, have lately complained of nocturnal noises, and one night they called in a policeman, stating that there were
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