A Kettering Ghost Story.
Spook in a modern council house?
It has been a long time since Kettering furnished a ghost story, but something with spook-like tendencies has appeared lately. The eerie visitor has not selected an ancient, rambling dwelling, but he, or it, has actually favoured a modern Council house! No. 19, Athelstan-road, occupied by Mr and Mrs F. Rogers and family, is the affected site, and the ghost appears to have methods entirely different from those of the regulation species. It turns the electric lights on and off, and walks up and down the stairs.
Mrs Rogers states that one of her sons saw the face of a woman at the window, and on another occasion there was a loud bang which seemed to shoot across the room.
“We don’t know whether the house is haunted or not,” Mrs Rogers added. “We just want to find out what it all is. We were told that someone had hidden gold in the house and that someone was looking for it. We searched in likely places without finding anything. The house has a very bad name, and few have stayed in it long. One woman occupied the house, but did not even put it in order before she left it, she was so frightened.”
Northampton Herald, 5th September 1930.