Mystery of the ‘ghost typist’ at Coalville…
Is there any explanation for the nocturnal tappings which sometimes can be heard in Coalville branch library? The noises, which were first heard by the cleaner, Mrs D. Latimer, about three months ago, sound like some one using the typewriter in the small partitioned office to the rear of the library. The clicking sound is only heard at night after the library is closed to the public. But perhaps the strangest phenomenon is that the keys only tap out their message when the cover is left off the machine.
Mrs Latimer, of 5, Avenue-road, Coalville, is baffled by the noises. When she first heard them she thought perhaps a cat had slipped unseen into the premises and had jumped on the typewriter keys. Recently she heard it once more. Quietly tip-toeing into the office she heard the tapping quite plainly, and strongly maintains that she acutally saw the keys moving up and down.
The librarian, Mr L. J. Mitchell, has also heard the tapping, but can offer no satisfactory explanation.
Leicester Evening Mail, 1st July 1955.