Household Haunted By Demons.
Terrified Occupants.
Phantom Whisperings.
Birkenhead is bewildered by amazing happenings in a house said to be haunted by demons. According to stories told by members of the family in this house of terror, incidents of a most weird and eerie nature prostrated them with fear and eventually drove them to a new residence.
Phantom whisperings in the early hours have proved the prelude to rattling door knobs, stealthy steps on the stairs, terrific crashes above and below would-be sleepers and spirit manifestations of a strange character, including blows and scuffles between the spirit visitants. One of the occupants has had a breakdown in health and another has suffered an alarming heart attack.
Bolder members of the household have spent a night of terror trying to resist what they believe are psychic powers, a legacy from a previous tenant who was a spiritualist medium. The family have sat all night holding prayer meetings to drive away the demon spirits, but the meetings have been broken up by unaccountable noises.
In one case a large wooden plate shelf crashed to the kitchen floor, the crockery being reduced to a thousand fragments.
In order to test their own sanity the family at last invited a female relative to stay and kept her in the dark as to the weird happenings. Before long the visitor declared that during the night she was awakened and someone seized hold of her, scratched her arm, and then snatched at her hair. After that experience, while the family prepared for their removal to a new home, all the women slept in one room and all the men in another room. The worst they experienced after this was eerie knocking on the bedroom wall.
Belfast Telegraph, 14th March 1931.