Family to quit “haunted” house.
Prefer camping to “unseen hands.”
A farmer’s family who have been living in a “haunted house” near Toulon since last March have now decided to abandon the premises and to camp out in a field, says a message from Paris.
They are M. Rostan, aged 60, a blind man, his wife and their four children. They say they have been unable to sleep night after night owing to noises coming from their attic. This could only be reached by a long ladder, which they do not possess. The other times doors have opened and closed mysteriously. The family even go so far as to say that mad cats have been thrown from the top of the house, while at other times “unseen hands” have pelted them with stones.
The authorities will carry out an investigation into the matter.
Dundee Evening Telegraph, 4th August 1938.