Police haunt is on.
Police at Prestatyn have joined the ghost busters after three terrified men locked themselves in a room in the middle of the night. The men, living in a residential house converted into four flats in Nant Hall Road were twice awoken by the sound of slamming doors but on each occasion found all the doors were locked. When they again went to investigate, they saw a grey misty apparition and fled to a bedroom locking themselves inside. They telephoned for the police and dropped the key to the house from the bedroom window because they were too afraid to come out.
The police searched the house but found nothing. Superintendent Gwyrfai Jones said they were satisfied that the incident was genuine as the men had not been drinking or taking drugs. “They were really scared and their experience is a mystery,” he added.
Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition), 11th October 1986.
Couple to quit ‘haunted house’.
By Daily Post Reporters.
A young Prestatyn couple will ask Rhuddlan Borough Council today to find them somewhere to live so that they can leave their haunted house. For Graham and Mandy Wilkins, who have a five month-old baby son, say they cannot put up much longer with the mysterious happenings that are terrifying the occupants of a large house in flatlets in the town’s Nant Hall Road.
Last Friday they saw a poltergeist in a doorway after being awoken twice in the middle of the night by the loud banging of doors that had been locked and bolted. And yesterday police were again called out to investigate after a 999 call from the panic-stricken tenants was put out shortly after 2am. “They were genuinely terrified especially as this was the second incident in 48 hours,” commented a senior police officer. “We feel they are in need of help if someone can explain what is going on,” he added.
Said Graham (19): “It started about a week ago just after the baby was christened. Since then there have been strange noises even in the daytime with the sound of someone walking about. It’s all very weird.” With the help of friends they fitted up a sensitive tape recorder outside their door, which now has a cross attached to it, to monitor the sounds and picked up the clear sound of someone kicking the door.
“The dog normally barks like mad whenever strangers are near but he was just petrified and cowered in a corner,” said Mandy (18). “He’s gone very thin and is not at all his usual self. I never believed in spirits but I certainly do now,” she confessed.
Over the weekend one of the flats was visited by the Vicar of Prestatyn, the Rev Clive Southerton, and the Vicar of Meliden, the Rev David Hugh Rees, who spoke to the occupants and said prayers with them. “We did not sense any presence as one sometimes can but there is no doubt that the occupants are genuinely frightened. We shall be keeping in touch with them,” said Mr Southerton.
Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition), 13th October 1986.
Ghost is a friend, tenants told.
Worried occupants of a haunted house in Prestatyn now believe a spiritualist may have solved the mystery that has terrified them for the last week – a friendly ghost. Medium David Drew (32) from nearby Llandulas, has identified the grey misty figure that mystified three men when it appeared in the early hours of last Friday morning as a protective spirit. Mr Drew, from Station Road, Llandulas, spent five hours talking to tenants of the red bricked flat-let house in Nant Hall Road till 3.30 am. Among them was 18-year-old Mandy Wilkins, who has a five-month-old baby son. “He knew a terrific lot about us and said what we saw was a lady protecting Mandy and the baby,” said Graham Powell (19). “She was trying to figure herself to us but we were too scared so she disappeared.”
Now Mr Drew is to return to continue probing the mysterious events at the house, formerly owned by a doctor. “The spirit is still a bit mischievous, so I want to spend more time finding out who she is,” he said yesterday.
Graham said, “We feel very relieved now and much happier about things. We don’t mind admitting being scared but now we know what’s going on it’s a big load off our minds. But we would still like to move from here because you never know what might go wrong.”
Liverpool Daily Post (Welsh Edition), 14th October 1986.
Family calls on help from ghostbuster.
By Tom Hill.
Ghostbuster David Drew has had a busy week staying up until the early hours to communicate with an “earthbound entity” and give interviews to the Press. The spiritualist medium, who lives in Llanddulas, has been helping the occupants of a haunted house in Prestatyn deal with a poltergeist which turned up there on Friday morning. Mr Drew, 32, of Arwelfa, Station Road, Llanddulas, believes the grey misty figure is a protective spirit that wants to look after the family in the house.
“I was there on Monday night, and although the spirit would not give me her name she said she worked at the house but did not live there,” said Mr Drew. “She has attached herself to the house to protect the family and doesn’t want them to move away. I think she lived between the wars, but I couldn’t tell whether she was Welsh or English. I am trying to persuade her to move on, and release the family and her from each other.”
Mr Drew, who says he was born with psychic powers, moved to Llanddulas from Birmingham five years ago. The job in Prestatyn is the first one he has dealt with in North Wales, but he dealt with several cases in his home city. “I don’t charge for clearing up problems like this or for spiritual healing, but I do charge for sittings when people ask me to contact their deceased relatives for them. However, if I have to travel any distance I do charge expenses. People have heard of Doris Stokes – well that’s what I am, although not as famous.”
Mr Drew has certainly put the occupant’s mind at rest. One of the people in the house, in Nant Hall Road, Prestaty, is Mr Graham Powell. He said that it had been a great relief to find out what the ghost was, but admitted being apprehensive about staying in the haunted house much longer.
North Wales Weekly News, 16th October 1986.