Exorcist told to evict ghosts with high spirits.
Families in a Midland council tower block have taken desperate steps to evict unwanted tenants by calling in a Ghostbuster. Almost everyone living in Victoria House, at Leamore, Walsall, claim their homes are being squatted in by three ancient spirits. And they say the unwelcome visitors are causing havoc every night. According to the terrified tenants, the ghouls have: Knocked photographs off walls; Stolen food from their fridges; Punched a sleeping resident in the stomach; Stolen a pet hamster without opening its cage.
One resident, Ms Kathleen Dallaway, aged 26, claims to have had the most embarrassing experience with a ghost. She said on Wednesday: “I was sitting on the toilet one evening when the chain flushed and the door opened and shut. I hadn’t moved. But I sprinted out after that happened.” Ms Dallaway, a mother of three, also claims she was temporarily paralysed by an eerie spirit when it slipped into her bedroom as she slept. Now Ms Dallaway and her neighbour, Ms Rebecca Barton, aged 19, have called in Walsall’s self-styled psychic social worker, Ms Denise Bakewell, to exorcise the silly spirits.
Ms Bakewell, aged 52, said: “There are certainly spirits in the block of flats and I don’t think they liked me going there. One of them attacked me when I went into the building and another tried to push me over.” Ms Bakewell, who has exorcised ancient spirits from several pubs in Walsall, said the ghosts are spirits of people who used to farm the land in the 1840s.
Birmingham Daily Post, 20th April 1995.