Frank Wood and his 15-year-old brother were delivering chaff near Harewood, outside Christchurch, New Zealand, when curiosity pulled them into a deserted house. It was around ten o’clock, the building was empty, and almost immediately they heard something that did not sound empty at all.
Joseph and Elizabeth Procter were not searching for a haunted house when they moved their family beside Willington Mill in northern England in 1835. Joseph was a Quaker businessman, and the property near the River Tyne was where the family expected to live while he…
Late in December 1739, sailors crossing the dark water near Block Island saw a ship on fire. This was not a small glow on the horizon or a lantern flickering through fog; witnesses described what appeared to be a large sailing vessel consumed by flames.
A few months after nineteen-year-old Rosina Despard moved with her family into a large Victorian house in Cheltenham, England, she heard somebody outside her bedroom door.