Ghost visits golf club every night.
By Charles Lott.
Tappings on his bedroom window, shuffling footsteps and doors opening of their own accord are causing such inconvenience to a groundsman at a golf club near Gravesend, Kent, that he may leave his home. He was sitting up in bed one night when he saw his black cat spitting furiously as the doors of a built-in cupboard began to open and close. The manifestations began some time ago when the groundsman heard a low tapping at the curtained rear window of his home. He jumped to the conclusion that it was a practical joker. But there was a five-feet deep basement outside the window.
For a fortnight the tappings were heard each night between 10.30p.m and 2.30 p.m. and shufflings outside the door and noises in the room kept him awake. Then the noises stopped. Recently, however, a fierce hammering on the window heralded their return. As the cat spat, and the cupboard doors opened and closed, an ornate vase on the mantelpiece flew across the room, struck a connecting door, and broke into pieces on the floor. Another night a blue Cupid statuette was seen to have moved from its place on the mantelpiece to the top of the radio set. Then things began to fly all over the room.
The house is reputed to have been the scene of a murder in the 1890s, and the golf club groundsman says: “I’ve had enough. I’ll probably go crazy if I stay here much longer.” The manifestations are those of what psychical investigators call a poltergeist.
Nottingham Evening Post, 18th August 1955.