Noisy Ghost…
Indianapolis, Ind.
Glassware has been breaking up all over Mrs Renate Beck’s home without apparent cause – one piece even flying around a corner before shattering. The police are baffled, and their presence doesn’t inhibit the poltergeist – that’s a noisy ghost – or whatever force is moving the glassware around. A policeman was struck on the back by a glass as he was investigating Monday.
Mrs Beck, 32, Vienna-born restaurant operator, said it started Sunday night when a piece of German crystal on top of a bookcase in an upstairs bedroom crashed to the floor about four feet from the bookcase. Figurines, ash trays, vases, goblets, drinking glasses and other glassware started sailing through the air and smashing, she said.
The Nome Nugget, 14th March 1962.
House of Strange Happenings.
Strange things are happening at an old house in Indianapolis, U.S.A. The police have been called in to watch crystal and china flying through the air. “We checked the house from one end to the other,” said a detective. Some of our men ran from room to room as glass things were breaking. But we didn’t see a thing.
The house-owner, Mrs Renate Beck (32), told of three days and two nights of frightening experiences in which, she said, she and her mother watched cups, saucers, lamps, ash-trays and figurines crash to the floors or shatter against walls.
They scoffed at suggestions that a poltergeist was responsible. Mrs Beck and her mother, Mrs Lina Gemmecke (60), said they felt stings on their arms and legs. When they looked, they said, they found triangular shaped puncture marks on the skin.
The police cannot explain this, but they suggest that an earth fault near the house may be responsible for the breaking glass and that passing cars may cause a vibration of the fault.
Coventry Evening Telegraph, 28th March 1962.