Brass Knob “Ghost.”
The practical joker is about again. A “ghost” which persisted in removing the brass knobs off a bedstead has been disturbing a house in Malling Terrace, Maidstone. An elderly couple, Mr William Green and his wife, live in the house with their granddaughter, and, according to Mr Green, there was heard “a terrible din – weird crashes and rumblings.” A search failed to disclose the cause of the noises.
All the doors were locked and the windows fastened. When Mr Green got back to bed, that too, started rumbling. But the ghost seemed to have a peculiar sense of humour, because it kept unscrewing the knobs on the bedpost in the granddaughter’s room as fast as Mr Green screwed them on. Other articles of furniture and ornaments were scattered about.
Dover Express, 5th September 1924.