Family packs up and quits ‘haunted
Tulsa, Okla.
Mr and Mrs C.V. Wilkinson and their 12-year-old daughter packed their belongings yesterday and moved out of the house they claim is ‘haunted’ by an electrical phenomenon. “I’m about to crack up,” Mrs Wilkinson said. “I wish someone would come forward and tell us what’s causing all this.”
The family thought their troubles had ended Thursday after Wilkinson, an oil company employee, dug up water pipes around the house and removed a new metal fence he believed responsible for creating a magnetic field. The family slept in their car Thursday night after tables and chairs went on a weird ‘dance’ and overturned. They are puzzled as to what’s causing electrical plugs to blow up without being connected, a sweeper to go on an aimless course through the house, and various household articles to start hopping around.
The mystery has damaged their $1,300 electric organ, caused the refridgerator motor to blow out twice and knocked the clock from its shelf six times.
Wilkinson said he had lived on the property for 23 years without prior incident – until this month. “We don’t know if the thing is a magnetic field, uranium, an old gas pocket under the ground, or what,” said Wilkinson, “but it has us completely unnerved and so upset we can’t live a normal life here. We’re moving.”
San Bernardino Sun, 3rd August 1957.