Ghost forces sisters out.
By Alison Stokes.
Spooked sisters Kathryn James and Lisa Fitzgerald are afraid to sleep alone because they claim their house is haunted. Electric sockets have blown, lights have mysteriously switched themselves on and off and doors have opened and shut. Now the couple and their three children are to be moved out of their rented terraced house and into a new home.
Since they moved into the house at Beauchamp Street, Riverside, Cardiff, last month, the women have watched in fear as their television, video and vacuum cleaner have blown. Their glowing gas fires have suddenly gone out and the children have woken up at night screaming after hearing spooky sounds like footsteps, banging and scratching at walls.
“In the cellar, eerie noises have been heard and lights have flickered. I’m not normally a nervous person, but I’ve been a bag of nerves lately,” said Kathryn, whose daughters, Kylie, eight, and Victoria, three, have moved in with their grandmother. “There’s an eerie feeling in the house, which I can’t explain. Now,, we won’t stay in the house unless there’s someone with us.”
The sisters have reported the haunted happenings to the house’s property managers, Mead Properties, which has offered them another house in three weeks. Owner, David Tucker, said: “Our builders were working in there for three weeks and they did not see or hear anything. There have been no other problems, but we are taking them seriously.”
South Wales Echo, 2nd February 1995.