A crowd, a rumour, and often no ghost at all. Ghost riots is the name blogs like Strange History and Beachcombing's Bizarre History Blog give to the street gatherings that formed around reported hauntings. Woburn Square in 1867 heads the British list. In Paddington in 1868, great crowds blocked Cromwell Terrace, though no one seems to have seen anything. At Edith Villas in 1900, some fifteen hundred people gathered and windows were broken. Across the Atlantic, the Miamisburg cemetery ghost of 1884 drew about a thousand a night, and the crowd fired live ammunition.
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