Secretary has a date with a spook.
Ever been tucked into bed by a persistent poltergeist? Take it from Margaret Best – it’s not much fun. Miss Best, a 28-year-old secretary, of Bournemouth, Hants, should know. Once every three weeks for the past nine months a poltergeist – distinguished from a ghost in that it haunts people, not placed, and can’t be seen – has called at her flatlet in fashionable Boscombe.
“It’s terribly worrying,” said Miss Best. “Its presence wakes me up in the middle of the night. Then I feel the bedclothes being smoothed and tucked in at the sides. I am always frightened to let the poltergeist know I am awake, as I think it might try to hurt me.”
But so far this has been a pally poltergeist. It seems quite satisfied to tuck in the bedclothes – and swot up on beauty. “On two occasions the poltergeist has moved a large book on beauty from a chair and placed it on my bed,” she said. “There are other books in my room, but this is the only one that is touched.”
Now Miss Best is calling in help – from the chairman of the Ghost Club of Great Britain, Mr Peter Underwood, of Twickenham, Middlesex. “Poltergeists are fairly common occurrences,” said Mr Underwood. “But it is very rare to have regular visits, and the fact that there is apparently no noise is also puzzling. But I am sure we will be able to get rid of it.”
Sunday Mirror, 29th November 1964.