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Mirror to another dimension
THE year 1972 will be remembered by those who lived through it as a turbulent time of industrial strikes, IRA bombings of mainland Britain, three-day weeks, airplane hijackings, the Women's Lib movement, an inept Government and power-cuts brought on by a national coal strike. more
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Soldier in cemetery
I HAVE been receiving several reports of a ghost in uniform who has been seen in broad daylight at Anfield Cemetery. more
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The 'full moon' slayings
ON THE morning of December 20, 1961, at 8am, 33-year-old Brian Dutton took a cup of tea upstairs to his wife, 27-year-old Maureen Ann Dutton, who was in bed, then left his semi-detached home at 14, Thingwall Lane, Knotty Ash. more
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Were these the killers?
ON the Sunday evening of August 19, 1951, a widow in her fifties named Beatrice Alice Rimmer, left her son's house in Madryn Street, Toxteth. more
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Were duo framed as revenge plot?
LAST week Wavertree criminologist Keith Andrews controversially alleged that Chief Inspector Herbert Balmer framed George Kelly and Charles Connolly, two completely innocent 26-year-old men, for the double murder of the manager and assistant manager at the Cameo cinema by a lone masked gunman. more
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Framed by a cop?
LAST week I looked at the tragic 1949 murders of Leonard Thomas and Bernard Catterall, the manager and assistant-manager of a cinema called the Cameo, which once stood on Webster Road in the Wavertree area. more
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Night Sherlock Holmes walked streets of city
LITERARY giants such as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde and Daniel De Foe have all stayed at our great city, and it is said that Shakespeare himself once performed just a stone's throw from Liverpool at Rufford Old Hall, near Ormskirk, in 1580. more
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Time for a conundrum in cottage
May 4 2006
I HAVE been investigating a peculiar haunting at a cottage in Hooton, Cheshire. Poltergeist activity broke out at the dwelling two months ago at four in the morning, when the solitary inhabitant, 56-year-old Mr Coombs, was rudely awakened by a thumping sound on the roof. more
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Were crafts over school UFOs?
SEVERAL years ago in Croxteth, a child who attended Our Lady & St Swithins Primary School, saw a UFO in broad daylight, flying north over Parkstile Lane. more
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Mystery of the green ghost
THE mystery of the 'Green Ghost' unfolded one hot Saturday afternoon in 1975 off Crown Street in the Edge Hill area of Liverpool. more
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Doppelganger haunts Janet
ONE of the strangest stories I have in my files is that of a woman named Janet, who lived in the Woolton area of Liverpool in the 1950s. more
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The monster lurking in the rubbish chute
IN 1968, a 12-year-old child named Theresa, whose family lived on the third floor of the Gerard Gardens tenements in Liverpool, was emptying a small bin down the wall refuse chute when she suddenly let out a high-pitched scream and ran back to her home in a terrible state. more
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