‘Ghost’ Drives Wallsend Family To Despair – and out of home.
“The ghost” of Gordon Square, Wallsend, returned last night to the home of a troubled family, and after experiencing what they described to an Evening News reporter as a terrifying ordeal the family to-day moved, convinced that the house is haunted.
They have been given another house in the same block of dwellings. The mysterious rappings on the bedroom wall which have driven the family to despair, began last night and lasted until 2 o’clock this morning. Mrs Hannant said, “We were sitting by the fire when without any warning the tapping on the bedroom wall began. It went on louder than ever before and did not cease until two o’clock this morning.
“None of the family, including three children, were able to sleep on account of the noise.”
Neighbours who disbelieved in ghosts were convinced when they heard the rapping for themselves last night, as many of them were in the house at the time.
The house is to stand empty for the present and the landlord is to have investigations made in an attempt to solve the mystery.
Shields Daily News, 22 November 1938.
Mystery of Raps on a Wall.
Mysterious rappings on a wall in a block of workmen’s homes at Wallsend, near Newcastle-on-Tyne, started a “ghost” hunt early yesterday. The raps were on the wall between a bedroom and living-room at the house of Mr and Mrs Jack Hannant, in Gordon-square.
“Pictures danced on the wall and the furniture began to shake,” Mrs Hannant told the “Daily Herald.”
“Our three children were terrified,” she said. “At times the noise was so bad that we thought the walls were coming down.”
Daily Herald, 22nd November 1938.