Things fly at night…
Mysterious things are happening at night at Caer Gwent, a large house standing in its own grounds in Abbey Hill road, Winchester. A watch is being kept and questions asked about poltergeists. This is what happened during the past few nights:
A window of a dining-room smashed by a bullet fired from short range; A bedroom window smashed by a stone; A window of a second bedroom broken by a flying screwdriver.
The house has been occupied for about three weeks by Mr G. de Brunner and his daughter, who moved in from the nearby Abbey Hill Private Hotel, of which they were proprietors.
When the dining room window was shot at, Miss de Brunner had only a moment before walked to an adjoining conservatory. “We can think of no explanation for such senseless damage,” Mrs Johnson, Miss de Brunner’s companion said yesterday. Mrs Johnson said the incidents were almost certainly of human agency, but the possibility of psychic force had not been ruled out.
Mr de Brunner, who said he was sceptical of ghosts, has written to the commanding officer of the house during the war, asking whether he had any trouble with roving poltergeists. “There has been some unusual moving of furniture and such things during our taking over the house,” he said.
Weekly Dispatch (London), 20th July 1947.