Lively spirit keeps house awake.
Birmingham Post Welshpool Correspondent.
Life has not been the same for the Owen family of Garth Owen Estate, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, since the mysterious spirit arrived some months ago. No one gets any sleep at night. Mr John Owen goes heavy-eyed to work as a bricklayer and the six children have not been to school because they are too tired. Mr and Mrs Owen believe they have been joined by a poltergeist, a mischievous spirit that throws cups and raps out messages. Mr Owen, who is 50, called in the police but they will not comment. Now he is thinking of asking a minister of religion to exorcise the spirit.
Mr Owen said: “Every night there is a slow hollow knocking. It begins about 11 o’clock and goes on right through the night.”
Mrs Jean Owen said: “It all started after we had our floor removed in the kitchen. The cups began to rattle, things began to disappear and the furniture moved. The children have not been to school for the last three weeks. They hardly ever go to sleep until daybreak.”
Birmingham Daily Post, 24th July 1965.
“… right through the night.”
Jean Owen said: “It all started after we had our floor removed in the kitchen. The cups began to rattle, things began to disappear, and the furniture moved.”
Seventeen-year-old Roslyn, the eldest daughter, said: “About a fortnight ago, I took my glasses off in bed, and put them on the dressing table. Next morning they had vanished. We found them three days later, on a new cabinet in the living room.”
Mrs Owen said: “The children have not been to school for the last three weeks. They hardly ever go to sleep until daybreak. How can I send them to school?”
Sometimes doors open of their own accord. The pages of wall calendars turn.
Then some one decided to test the spirit. Two 17-year-old schoolgirls, Pat Davey and Kathleen Parry, friends of the family, began knocking on the walls and calling out. Pat asked the spirit to knock a specific number of times. It did, they say. She told it to knock louder. Again, they say, it did.
Mr Harry Parry, of 64, Garth Owen, took over. He told the spirit to knock once if it was male and twice if it was female. It knocked twice, he says. “I told it to knock when I called out the first letter of its name. It knocked when I got to F.”
Mr Owen complained to the police, and they sent two constables. But a police spokesman said they could not comment.
Now Mr Owen says he may consider asking a minister to exorcise the intruder.
Wolverhampton Express and Star, 24th July 1965.