‘GHOST 9 IN HOUSE
Woman Offers Explanation (From Our Own Reporter) GREYMOUTH, May 28. The report in yesterday’s edition of "The Press” that a Timaru family is being haunted by a ghost in the house it is renting has led to a Greymouth housewife suggesting a solution—opossums.
She said yesterday that she and her family had had a similar experience. several years ago when they were living in a .rented house in Timaru and her husband was undergoing army training. “Every night when I was in the house alone with my family I was terrified by noises which sounded just like someone walking along the hallway or passage or entering other rooms," she said. “However, on investigation I could find nothing amiss, but I lost many hours of sleep.”
The woman said that when her husband came home on week-end leave he was inclined to ridicule her story but he soon discovered thgt what she had related was only too true. A flrm non-believer in ghosts, he was sorely puzzled by the sounds Having satisfied himself that there was nobody inside the house other than members of the family, the husband made an external examination on the roof. He discovered two opossums.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30143, 29 May 1963, Page 14
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