The ‘ghost’ haunting a family.
A Speke family is refusing to sleep in their four bedroomed council home – because they say it is haunted. Mr Thomas Wright, his wife, Elizabeth, and their six children say they have been petrified by strange happenings at their home, 106 Clough Road. The family say it has seen mysterious, shadowy figures in the front bedroom, felt beds shake and mattresses move up and down as though someone was sitting on them. And their teenage daughters say they have been woken by someone – or something- stroking them. Now they are so scared they won’t even go upstairs to collect their clothes.
At 9 pm every night Mr and Mrs Wright, Jimmy, aged 23, Brenda (19), Carol (17), Alma (16), Susan (4) and Gillian (9 months) leave the house to sleep with friends and neighbours. The family aren’t the only ones in the area who belive the house is haunted.
Mrs Catherine Kirwen, who lived in the house with her family five years ago, and now lives in a flat in Clough Road, said her daughter was terrified while they lived in the house. “I agree with the Wright family. There is definitely something strange going on in that house.”
Mrs Wright said: “We are willing to go anywhere, even into a flat, so long as we don’t have to spend another night here.” She added: “Last Saturday night Carol and Alma felt something running over the bed move up and down. They screamed, and Alma had a cross, which she wears around her neck, embedded in her hand because she had gripped it so tight.”
A spokesman for the Housing Department said the department had an open mind on such matters. He added that Mrs Wright’s request for a transfer would certainly be considered.
Liverpool Echo, 25th May 1973.
Family claims home is spooky.
A Liverpool family which moved into a council home in Speke four weeks ago is asking to be rehoused. The family claim their home is haunted, and are upset the Liverpool Housing Department didn’t warn them that the previous tenants were re-housed from the house in Clough Road, after they complained that strange things were happening there at night.
Miss Margaret Moore, aged 23, an unmarried mother, who is also looking after the four young children of her sister who died recently, says she hasn’t seen or felt anything unusual at th ehouse. But the children say they are so frightened that they are refusing to sleep in their own rooms and crowd into their aunt’s bedroom at night. One of the children, Lynda, aged 12, says that when she went to bed recently she felt the bed move and thought someone was getting in with her.
Miss Moore is also angry that the Housing Department had not arranged for repairs before they moved in.
Liverpool Echo, 23rd August 1973.