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.