GHOST IN BEDROOM

Greymouth Evening Star, 3 November 1923, Page 2

GHOST IN BEDROOM

MEDIUM SEES SPIRIT. Amazing incidents, which are said to have been proved to be beyond the power of practical jokers, are reported from a house in Parliament Street, Thatta Heath, near St. Helens, Lancashire, occupied by an elderly couple, Mr. and Mrs. Roberts, and several lodgers. Mrs. Roberts told a story of weird happenings'. “We had just gone to bed on Sunday night,” she said, “when we heard a continuous noise like a reel of cotton rolling about the 1 floor. Then there came knockings in different parts of the room, and three sharp determined knocks at regular intervals. Immediately afterwards a box containing collars fell to the floor, and then all the clothes in a' large box were scattered on the floor. AVe slept in another bed next night, and nothing happened, but I was determined to get to the bottom of what happened on Sunday; so on Tuesday I asked six neighbours to go to the room we had occupied .on Sunday night. No sooner had we got settled down than knocking began, and every body in the room saw the boxes fly open and fall to the floor. Then a water-jug began to spin round and round. Alternate scratchings and knockings went on until half past three, when all became quiet.”

; Mrs. Roberts; who has never before been associated in any way with spiritualism, called in a well-known local medium who visited the house the occupants of which were complete strangers to her. The medium declared that she saw a man in spirit form walk through the kitchen and lean heavily against the fireplace. She described the man, and Mrs. Roberts recognised the description as that of her brother who was killed in an explosion 11 years ago. There was nothing to fear, the medium assured Mrs. Roberts, as the brother was simply trying to get a message to her. A little girl who had been staying with Mr. S. Roberts found in the bed room a note bearing in a big, unfoimed hand-writing the following words: “Take care of yourself.”