APPARITION CLAIMED
Family Leaves House .
LONDON, January 28. A family who has abandoned its ib-roomed home because it is terrified of a “ghost" went house-hunting
today. Mr Ronald Bush, aged 26, his wife, Anne, aged 22. and Anne’s mother, Mrs Barbara Basted, aged 48, refuse to sleep in their 80-year-old house In suburban laelworth.
Mrs Basted says she has seen the apparition of an elderly white-bearded sailor. The couple say they have heard weird noise, including the sound of a baby crying in an empty room. All three say they are so frightened that they have been sleeping in railway station waiting-rooms rather than stay in the house, which they rent After police had pulled up floor boards and examined walls and cupboards at her request Mrs Basted slept alone in the house on Saturday night But early yesterday Mrs Basted fled to the house of a neighbour aft* hearing “terrible groans and the sound of crockery being smashed.” Since then she has stayed away from the house. All three plan to enter the house tonight with a psychic expert and friends, in the hope of nailing the “ghost”
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 13
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189APPARITION CLAIMED Press, Volume CII, Issue 30044, 31 January 1963, Page 13
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