Spirited spook was no spoof.
A poltergeist with a taste for whisky so unnerved two United States Navy families at Norfolk, Virginia, that the sailors asked for transfers to other bases. They could not convince friends that knocks, footsteps and dog howls that shattered the peace of their house were made by a poltergeist. But after a local psychic research foundation proved that the whisky lost from a glass could not be explained by evaporation the two families felt their case had been proved, and promptly moved out.
Coventry Evening Telegraph, 15th February 1968.
Places that are said to be haunted.
By James Little
It is here where I remember that story
from when I was a young teen that made me want to know more about
places that people thought were haunted or people said they had seen a
ghost. When I was living in Virginia Beach in 1967, there was a story on
the news about an apartment complex in Norfolk Va. The wife of an
enlisted naval officer was being treated for a nervous condition at the
Portsmouth Naval Hospital that she said was brought about due to a
poltergeist in her apartment in the Robin Hood complex in Norfolk
Virginia. The woman reported that she had experienced several
unexplained events in her apartment – from hearing the sounds of heavy
footsteps going up and down the stairs, to a cuckoo clock hanging on the
wall mysteriously flying across the room, to a young child being thrown
from her bed. A Catholic Priest was called in to perform an exorcism,
yet the impish ghost had apparently returned according to the woman’s
family, making her and her neighbors nervous.
(1967 The Virginia Pilot)
The SMCC Beacon website.
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