The Enfield Poltergeist
In 1977 the Hodgson family in Enfield reported knocks, moving furniture, thrown objects and a harsh voice associated with eleven-year-old Janet. Journalists, police officers and…
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2034 articlesThe Battersea Poltergeist
From 1956 the Hitchings family of Wycliffe Road, Battersea, reported knocks, moving objects and notes attributed to an entity called “Donald.” Teenager Shirley stood at the centre…
The Phantom Number 7 Bus
A story from the 1930s described a red double-decker number 7 bus appearing at night in Cambridge Gardens, racing towards motorists and vanishing at a dangerous bend. After…
The Blackwall Tunnel Ghost Hitchhiker
The Blackwall Tunnel legend has a driver collect a soaked man or motorcyclist, learn an address and then discover the passenger has vanished; a family at the address says he died…
The Ghosts of Bethnal Green Station
On 3 March 1943 a crush on the stairs of Bethnal Green station killed 173 people, most of them women and children, during an air-raid warning. Darkness, wet steps, the absence of…
The Hunt for the Hammersmith Ghost
In 1803–04 Hammersmith residents reported a white figure believed to be the ghost of a suicide denied consecrated burial. Armed patrols went hunting, and excise officer Francis…
