Baker’s ghost still walks…
Reporter: Sarah Crew.
Garage boss Barry Willson didn’t believe in ghosts before he moved into his Moulton workshop. But now he is convinced the ghost of a baker who hanged himself continues to haunt his former premises in High Street. Barry said: “I have heard his footsteps in the yard and then sensed him moving through the workshop. The room goes cold and absolutely quiet and the atmosphere sends shivers up your spine.”
At first frightened, Barry now accepts his garage is haunted. “I guess I have just got used to it,” he said. He thinks the baker visits the garage because it used to be his bakery shop and ovens. The churchyard where he was buried is almost next door. And Barry has often arrived at work in the morning to find the high security padlock on his garage doors open.
But after he first experienced the ghost’s night-time wandering – it has never appeared during the day – Barry was amazed to find it was a familiar figure in the village of Moulton. Before Barry took over the site, behind a butcher’s shop, it was a vegetable packing shed. Workers there also experienced footsteps and unexplained noise and movement. And a similar opening of locked doors almost cost one employee her job, according to Barry. He said: “She had to explain to her boss the ghost’s habits the following morning.” Now Barry prefers not to work late at his motor repair garage. He has learned to share the building with its former occupant.
Brian Willson, his son Mark (11), and the padlock which mysteriously opens.
Spalding Guardian, 6th September 1985.