Poltergeist!
Noises in night… chairs tilted.
When Buckinghamshire farmer Mr Roy Sutton decided to retire it was love at first sight when he saw the “For Sale” sign outside the centuries-old, multi-timbered cottage at Wooburn Green. Within hours of finding the cottage, Mr Sutton had bought it. But he has discovered it is not so peaceful as he at first thought.
“After living here for three months I am convinced I am being haunted by a poltergeist,” he said. Shortly after moving into Long Acres in Windsor Hill, on the edge of the village, he heard loud noises coming from the panelled lounge at the dead of night.
“I discovered that the seven chairs had been moved from their positions around the walls of the room and had been tilted forward against the table,” he said. “It looked as though someone had been having a party. And similar incidents have been going on ever since.”
Occasionally Mr Sutton has discovered that his desk, in the same room, has been tampered with. “But nothing unusual happens in the rest of the house,” he said. A frightening experience? Said Mr Sutton “Not at all. In fact I rather enjoy it. It is nice to have an old world cottage complete with ghost.”
Mr Sutton discovered that in 1734 the owner was a Selina Sutton. “Perhaps she was an ancestor of mine and this is her way of welcoming me to the cottage,” he said with a laugh.
Evening News (London), 22nd February 1968.