‘Poltergeist’ creates chaos in a cafe.
For several days there have been flying saucers and tea-cup tantrums in a cafe in St Margaret’s, Ipswich, and last night, the proprietor, Mr Leslie Dunget, decided to do something about it. He called in the Rev. A.C. Henning, an expert on the famous haunted Borley Rectory. “Will you rid me of my poltergeist?” he asked, and Mr Henning said, “I will do my best,” adding, “The remarkable thing is that the phenomena are vouched for by so many persons. That is most unusual” – the phenomena are vouched by eleven members of the staff.
The poltergeist went into action on Monday, when six cups and a plate were thrown through the air and smashed. On Tuesday a cup blew up and another flew off a shelf when no one was near. On Wednesday a teapot was smashed and yesterday a cup glided across the room and smashed on the floor as a waitress was serving a customer.
“This time last week I would have laughed at the idea of poltergeists – tonight I am a very worried man,” said Mr Dunget. Mrs Grace Ransey, the cook, said:- “I have always been cynical about spooks, but there is no doubt about this one. We have the evidence of our own eyes and ears. Two of the cups blew up with a noise like a gun-shot.”
Aberdeen Press and Journal, Friday 17th November 1950.
The Reverend certainly should have been an expert on Borley Rectory – he was the indeed the Reverend of Borley! You can read his book on the Internet Archive.