Our house is haunted, says scared mother.
A family driven out of their home by ghostly happenings yesterday sought a medium’s help. The medium visited the semi-detached former RAF married quarter at The Arms, Little Cressingham, in an effort to find out what it wanted. Shepherd Mr Andrew Foreman, his wife Anne (24) and their daughter Victoria (2) have not slept in the house for the past week after a period of particularly spooky happenings. Instead they have been staying with Mrs Foreman’s parents, Lou and Marion Johnson, who run the George pub at Methwold.
The family has discovered the house was built in 1956 on the site of a former coaching inn and a former occupant who told them of her similar experiences. Mrs Foreman said on November 6, strange things started happening at the house where she has lived for the past two years. Plants hanging from the ceiling started to sway and tremor although there was no breeze. Three days later she was upstairs with Victoria, who was cleaning her teeth in the bathroom, when a tap came on by itself three turns. “Vicky couldn’t reach the tap but twice it came on of its own – and I can’t think of any logical explanation,” she said.
Last Friday, Mrs Foreman’s youngest sister, Emma (12) was staying with her when she saw a figure standing on the stairs. It was of an Edwardian-style man dressed in a long brown frock coat, with tight trousers and ruffle collar. “He told Emma he wanted to be on his way,” Mrs Johnson said. Next morning, Victoria was in bed when her mum saw her looking towards a wardrobe. “She seemed to be answering questions with ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ and ‘Daddy’ and ‘Nanny’, then she started saying ‘Out!’ really loud and panicky. She shouted at me when I went in there and wanted to get out of her cot,” she recalled. When she asked the tot who she was talking to, she replied ‘Pete’. Mrs Foreman pointed out: “We don’t know anyone called Pete. It’s these things that have spooked me – I don’t want to go back to live there until I know it’s safe,” she said.
When she visited the house on Wednesday to collect toys for Victoria, the little girl rolled herself into a ball at the top of the stairs and refused to enter her bedroom. “I had to take her outside again,” she said.
Lynn Advertiser, 18th November 1994.