Spine-chilling groans of the unseen ghost.
Ghostly goings-on have got residents of Hugh Place, Faversham, believing they may be sharing their 17th century home with a noisy poltergeist. A series of bizarre and inexplicable incidents have centred around a building separated into two flats rented by Martin Wing and Peroska Cavell, who run their own businesses from their homes.
Martin has even tried sprinkling holy water around his flat but says that seems to have made things worse. “Two weeks ago I was settling down to go to bed when the old stable latch on my bedroom door bashed up and down three times,” said Martin, a 26-year-old freelance artist. “It is a really heavy indoor latch and there is no way it could have been blown by a draught. A few days later I distinctly heard the sound of a baby crying upstairs in Peroska’s flat – but she has not got a baby and it definitely wasn’t a cat or anything.”
In a tongue-in-cheek gesture a friend gave him some holy water from a religious centre in Southern Ireland which he sprinkled around his flat. “I was still not really thinking anything of these incidents until Peroska’s experience last week, which was genuinely a bit disturbing,” he said.
Peroska, aged 25, who runs the Useful People employment agency from her flat, stayed at home alone while Martin, her boyfriend Jon Webb and other friends went out for the evening. “Late in the evening before anyone had come home I suddenly heard a banging and crashing along with lots of moaning and wailing coming from Martin’s flat downstairs,” she said. “It sounded like someone had broken in and was pulling open and then slamming doors and drawers. I cautiously went downstairs with my steel tennis racket thinking it was either vandals or burglars. Once I realised there was no one there I became quite excited and hoped to see something appear. I am still quite looking forward to seeing this thing if it is still around.”
Martin added: “I was a bit of a sceptic about ghosts before hand but I now believe there is something there – I just don’t know what it is.”
Faversham News, 28th June 1991.