Couple are blamed for ghostly taps.
Eerie knocking noises on the wall of their council home have landed an elderly Ellesmere Port couple in hot water with their neighbours. For the neighbours say that the strange tapping noises, which only happen during the night, are being made by 75-years-old Mr Harold Check and his 72-year-old wife, Dorothea, pictured above at home. But the couple claim their home, in Croft Close maisonettes, has been haunted since they moved in eight years ago.
Now their claim has been backed by a well-known local medium, Mr Alan Crossley, of Elton, near Chester, who visited them and said later: “I did hear the noises, and have no doubt they are being caused by some external phenomenon that cannot be produced in any rational way. But I do think Mrs Check has a psychic influence and this, coupled with the history of the locality, could be producing manifestations.”
The maisonettes are built on the site of a former Benedictine monastery burial ground.
A spokesman for the council’s housing department said they had received numerous complaints about the knocking noises over the past four years, and said the complaints were being investigated.
Liverpool Echo, 13th July 1977.