Ghost drove me out… and it beat vandals.
A Nottingham printer claims he was driven from his premises by a ghost. And he said that vandals were scared off by the ghost after he had left the Sherbrooke Road building. Mr Tony Dearman, who has moved to Wesley Street, Carrington, saw the ghost of an old man who once worked in the building. In time he saw him so often that he accepted him.
But other people who encountered the ghost could not adjust to the sight of a transparent man, or to his footsteps and the way he banged on partitions. “I don’t think it was very good as far as the staff were concerned, and one or two of the customers,” said Mr Dearman.
He would not, he said, have believed the story if he had not seen the ghost himself. He had not told people about it at first in case they thought he was a crank. Then other people had seen or heard the old man.
Mr Bert Haylett, a member of the Psychical Research Society, attended a seance at the abandoned building with medium Mrs Violet Edwards and Dr Alan Gould, a lecturer in the Psychology Department at Nottingham University. He said the building had a much better atmosphere after the seance, and he felt that it had been cleared. He would now be surprised if there were any further paranormal manifestations.
Dr Gould commented that he had visited the premises as an observer and had not himself witnessed any phenomena. He had found the statements about them very interesting.
Mr Dearman points to the spot where he says he saw the ghost at the vacated premises.
Nottingham Evening Post, 20th December 1977.