Ghost of Hill Side council house.
A young Coventry couple have left their home and abandoned all the furniture inside because they claim it is haunted. After a week of what they describe as “terror and torment” in the Stoke Heath council house John and Lynne Edwards are determined to stay out.
The couple, who have two children, said they had both heard whining noises and footsteps on the stairs and told of how the house, 63, Hill Side, suddenly went freezing cold. Mr Edwards, aged 27, said: “It first happened at 4 a.m. on Monday. I was awake in bed and felt a terrible sensation which left me cold and tingling.
An exorcism service was held at the house last Wednesday. “But it has been worse since then,” said Mr Edwards who slept downstairs in the living room with his wife and children, Nathan (3) and 20-month-old Darrell on Thursday night. Mrs Edwards, aged 21, said the children, although they had not been told, were frightened of the house which they had lived in for two years, and neighbours too had experienced incidents.
An ambulance driver, Mr Trevor Brown, who lives opposite at number 54, said he had been inside the house this week, and suddenly felt cold and sick. Mrs Mary Delaney, who lives at number 65, said she had heard footsteps. “I will never go back inside, and I will leave all my furniture there,” said Mrs Edwards, who will be staying with her family at her mother’s house.
Mr Andrew Reid, Coventry’s deputy director of homes and property services, declined to comment.
Coventry Evening Telegraph, 19th November 1973.