Haunted house in Bo’ness.
Pictures that move on the wall.
Mysterious rappings.
Bo’ness, Saturday.
Bo’ness is perplexed and mystified at inexplicable recurrences going on in a certain dwelling-house in the very heart of the burgh. The house, which is in South Street, is a comfortable single apartment, situated one storey up, and is occupied by a young married couple, who recently succeeded as tenants a lady of thirty years of age, who died in the apartment.
The occurences take place every evening from nine o’clock until about midnight. Various manifestations of an occult character are in evidence in the shape of mysterious rappings, followed by the movement of the pictures hanging on the walls. These things take place quite independent of any human agency. The lady of the house is afraid to be left alone of an evening.
In an attempt to solve the mystery, the services of a prominent local spiritualist have been called in, and he has devoted several nights to a close watch and study of the strange occurrences within the apartment. The townspeople are taking the greatest interest in the case, and to-night the street was blocked by a crowd, who were anxious, if possible, to see the “ghost,” and also assist in laying it.
Sunday Mail (Glasgow), 7th November 1920.
A Haunted House at Bo’ness.
Is it a house-hunter’s trick?
Bo’ness
is agitated over alleged ghostly manifestations in a single-apartment
house in South Street occupied by a young married couple. The previous
occupant was a young woman who died in the apartment, and it is stated
that every evening, from nine o’clock till about midnight, mysterious
rappings are heard, followed by movements of pictures on the walls.
Mr
and Mrs Heath, the tenants, have admitted that there were some peculiar
rappings and tappings in the apartment during the night time, which
caused them some alarm for a bit, but these happenings, they say, have
been exaggerated by the people outside, so much so that one evening the
staircase was thronged, and Mrs Heath was compelled to throw a pailful
of water over the inquisitive busybodies.
Their confirmed
conviction is that the whole thing is a put-up job on the part of some
people to drive them out of their house. There is at present a great
scarcity of houses in the burgh, as elsewhere. Mrs Heath has learned
that there were no fewer than five applicants for her so-called haunted
apartment, but says they are not to be put out of their house by any
such reports.
A local Spiritualist visited the house on Saturday
for the purpose of holding a seance, but all his powers of psychical
research failed to elucidate the mystery.
Dundee Courier, 9th November 1920.