The penny poltergeist – and the boy. By Sunday Dispatch Reporter. In an attempt to rid his 12-year-old son of the poltergeist he believes is following him, Joe Pearcey last night tried to sell four
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North Shields, Tyne and Wear (1960)
The extra viewer is a ghost. A ghost is haunting the Leek family – a ghost with modern tastes. For the home it has chosen to haunt is a three-year-old council flat in Redburn-view, North
Continue ReadingCheshunt, Hertfordshire (1850s?)
I dare say that a good many of your readers have read Dickens’s “Haunted House.” There is a Defoe-like truthfulness about soem of the tales which must have struck most readers, and the thought must
Continue ReadingBirmingham (1974)
‘Sense of evil’ in a baby’s bedroom. Footsteps and noises in night. Four priests and a psychic research team have been called in to lay the ghost of Hagley Road. A series of inexplicable events
Continue ReadingBristol (1951)
Terrified wife and baby quit ‘haunted’ pre-fab. Herald Reporter, Bristol, Wednesday. Ghostly happenings in a ‘haunted’ prefab have driven a young couple and their baby from their home. Doors opened and slammed by unseen hands…
Continue ReadingDover, Kent (1992)
Is this the most haunted house in Britain? Young mother ‘kicked’ by ghost. Strange chill in council house. White dress ‘floated’ down stairs. Mystery bruises appear on girls. Two young mothers claim they are being
Continue ReadingNew Mills, Derbyshire (1914)
Derbyshire Ghosts. More Stories of Restless Spirits. Notwithstanding the explanation (published yesterday) of the noises that have led one of the two workmen at the Ollersett coal pit, New Mills, to imagine they had seen
Continue ReadingKirkby, Merseyside (1971)
New bid to lay ghost of Tedbury Close. A church minister will to-night visit a three-storey block of flats in Kirkby to exorcise a ghost which has been frightening families there. The residents in Tedbury
Continue ReadingLudborough, Lincolnshire (1785)
The inhabitants of Ludborough, near Grimsby, have of late been alarmed by a house being haunted, somewhat similar to the Cock-lane Ghost, which some years ago made a great noise in London. The only part
Continue ReadingAller, Devon (1963)
A ghost quits newly-weds A ghost who forced a young, newly-wed couple to move out of their flat has now been forced to move out himself. The Bishop of Exeter, Dr Robert Mortimer, held a
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