Haunted House Scare
Puzzling Phenomena in Maryport House.
A rumour that a house in Grasslot, Maryport, is haunted is causing the district to seethe with excitement. During the week-end the police dispersed large crowds assembled before it. Muffled thuds, dull rappings, and sounds like moans were heard at intervals, both upstairs and downstairs, accompanied by vibrations of the wall and movements of the bed.
Doctors, clergy, police, technical and mining experts paid visits of investigation, but the cause remains a mystery.
The six inhabitants of the house have been reduced to a state of high nervous tension.
Newcastle Evening Chronicle, 16th March 1926.
“Haunted House.”
Thuds, rappings, moans and vibrations.
Maryport, Cumberland, has been seething with excitement by the discovery of a “haunted house” in the district. Huge crowds have gathered round the building and had to be dispersed by the police. Muffled thuds, dull rappings, sounds like moans were heard, and they were accompanied by vibration of the house walls.
Doctors, clergy, police and mining engineers investigated, but have found nothing to account for the strange happenings.
South Gloucestershire Gazette, 20th March 1926.
District terrified by rapping and moanings.
Investigators unable to find cause.
West Cumberland police are investigating the cause of rappings and moans in a terrace house in Maryport, occupied by two families. A kitchen clock, it is said, moves about, and a partition throbs. Thousands of people visit the house nightly, and the district is terrified by these unexplained happenings.
Engineers, doctors and clergymen have visited the house, but no one has been able to discover the cause. Engineers went to the house at night with delicate recording instruments, but the noises were not heard. they were apparent again in the morning, and the occupants of the house, in a state of nervous collapse, removed their bedding to neighbours’ houses.
Fife Free Press, and Kirkcaldy Guardian, 27th March 1926.