The Bells Rang for 53 Days. Nobody Could Find Who Was Pulling Them
On February 2, 1834, Major Edward Moor returned from church to his home in Great Bealings, Suffolk, and heard an odd report from his servants.
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At Midnight, the Headless Coach Reaches Sampson Cross and Explodes
Long after dark, travelers in southern Pembrokeshire were warned about a road leading away from Tenby toward a lonely place called Sampson Cross.
A Figure Appeared on Chester Castle’s Camera
The security cameras at Chester Castle were doing an ordinary job when they captured something that should not have been there.
After a Tsunami, Taxi Drivers Started Picking Up Dead People
A few months after the 2011 tsunami devastated Ishinomaki, a taxi driver waiting near the station picked up a young woman dressed strangely for the season. It was early summer, yet she wore a heavy coat and calmly asked to be taken to Minamihama, a…
The House Where a Ghost Walked Out of the Wall
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…
They Tried to Bury the Skull. The Screaming Made Them Bring It Back
For generations, a human skull has remained inside Bettiscombe Manor in the quiet Dorset countryside of southern England. It has no lower jaw, no name anyone can prove and no certain explanation for how it entered the house. What generations of residents did inherit was…
The Cheltenham Ghost Walked the Same Route for Seven Years
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.
They Say This Chest Brings Tragedy to Anyone Who Uses It
The Conjured Chest does not look like something a family should fear. It is an elegant mahogany dresser with four drawers, carved decoration and small wheels beneath its feet, the kind of antique that might quietly sit in a bedroom for generations.