The couple in fear of a firebug ghost.
Graham Stringer and his wife Vera will sleep uneasily this weekend – if they sleep at all. They fear the ghost of a baby will set fire to their home. For the Stringers say they have been haunted for years by a poltergeist – a mischief making ghost – and it is always most active around Easter. Already this month firemen have been called to their home twice in the same day. The first time, a carpet was alight. Then a bed was destroyed by fire. Firemen were unable to find the cause.
At Easter two years ago fire destroyed furniture at the Stringer’s home in Trafalgar avenue, Peckham, London. Now a medium has told Mrs Stringer that the poltergeist is her 18-month-old brother Charles, who died from burns more than 20 years ago.
Officials of the College of Psychic Science have confirmed the presence of a poltergeist in the house.
Daily Herald, 21st April 1962.