9,000 hunt honeymoon house ghost.
A Belgian woman, on honeymoon at Bracquegnies, Belgium, said today that a ghost with a hair-do like Mistinquette had torn her night dress. “It had saucer-eyes, a hooked nose, and a crooked chin,” said 20-years-old Madame Marie de Roek-Bonvarlet. Her husband, 22-years-old Hector de Roeck-Bonvarlet, a miner, added, “I am going scatty. I live in a constant sweat and change my pyjamas three times a night.”
The couple are not the only ones to have seen the ghost. The village priest spent a night in the haunted house trying to solve the mystery and said afterwards, “I was scratched by an invisible hand.”
Monsieur Duret, Burgomaster of the town, is organising ghost-hunts, assisted by most of the 9,000 population.
Hector said the ghost walks from just after midnight until 4 a.m. It starts by grabbing them by the throat and kicking their bodies as they lie in bed.
Tonight the young couple will go to bed with doors and windows barred while relaying parties of villagers mount guard outside.
Grimsby Daily Telegraph, 14th June 1950.