The ‘ghost’ of Glen Iris.
Raps fill a home with fear.
“A ‘friendly ghost’ is haunting our home,” Mr R. Grahame, of Burke rd., Glen Iris, said last night. “It has been heard by seven people, including the iceman, who refuses to come back,” he said. “It knocks politely at the front door. When ignored, it becomes impatient and knocks quicker and faster. When I and other scared occupants go to the door, the knocking stops, and then starts on the balcony door, 12ft. above the ground. Footsteps are then heard in various parts of the house.”
The Grahames, a young English couple, received their first “home-warming” call a few days after they moved in three weeks ago. “My wife and I and two young men in the house are now all unnerved and scared stiff,” Mr Grahamme said last night. “But it appears to be a friendly ghost. It just wants to come and live with us.”
On Tuesday Mr Frank Smith, one of the occupants, was having breakfast in the house alone. “Suddenly, for no reason at all, I felt the hair on my head kind of stand on end,” he said. ” A few seconds later came the knocking on the door. I went to the door, but no one was there. I went back to the kitchen. Everything was deadly quiet. Then the knocking came again. I looked, but no one was there. When I got back to the kitchen it started again. I went up the street and brought back the ice-man and a shop-keeper. The knocking was upstairs, and we could hear footsteps.”
Last night Mr. E. Stanley Brookes, leading Melbourne spiritualist, said: “A spirit sometimes resents newcomers in a house. Or it might be a spirit trying to advise or warn the Grahames about something.”
The Argus (Melbourne), 17th February 1955.
Glen Iris ‘ghost’ walks again!
The Burke rd. Glen Iris “ghost” walked again last night, a few minutes after 11 o’clock. All had been quiet and Mr and Mrs Grahame were thinking it was having a day off. Mr Grahame said: “We were in the hall below when suddenly came the sound of footsteps above. “They seemed to be crossing the room toward the next house.”
The Grahames have been visited several times in the last three weeks by the “ghost” which knocks before it enters. Seven people have heard the door-tapping. And yesterday the woman next door said: “I’m scared now, but we are leaving in a fortnight.”
The Argus (Melbourne), 18th February 1955.