“Ghost” in a bedroom.
Pool of water from “nowhere.”
Pattering feet.
Women in “haunted” house.
The patter of naked feet on oilcloth, and no one there; a gallon of water on the bed, and the ceiling dry. This is a “ghost” story told by Mrs Clarissa Martin, who is staying with her friend, Mrs R. Preston, at York-buildings, Adelphi, London.
“It was at two o’clock in the morning,” she said. “I was awakened with a shiver to find a pool of water gleaming on the eiderdown. It was beautifully clear. After I had mopped it up with a bath towel I started to look where it had come from, but it seemed to have come from nowhere – to have just appeared.”
Mrs Preston, taking up the story, said “Then two nights later, Mrs Martin and I heard the patter of naked feet on the oil cloth on the stairs. Each of us thought the other was moving about.”
” I called out to Mrs Preston, as I thought,” said Mrs Martin, “but when there was no answer I opened the door. There was no one outside.” Mrs Martin related how on awakening one morning and going to her dressing table, she found the top right-hand drawer flooded with water. There had been no rain for days; and, as on the former occasion, there was no trace of the source of the water. “We have been told that a murder was committed in the house years and years ago. The property is 300 years old or more.”
Western Mail, 28th May 1927.