Is this West Norfolk’s most haunted home?
Family too scared to sleep after series of strange events in their home.
Who’s that knocking on our walls? Sue, Paul and two year old Kelly McKaig want to know. Picture Deryk Story.
Ghostly goings-on at a Watlington bungalow – including the mysterious apparition of a woman – have left a family too frightened to sleep at night. Self-confessed cynic Paul McKaig (32) lives with his wife Sue (27) and their two-year-old daughter Kelly at 5 Cecil Close. Strange happenings in the middle of the night have become so frequent that the family are at a loss to know what to do.
Paul, an ex-RAF serviceman who now works as an electronic technician, says the unexplained activities began about the same time as they put their 20-year-old bungalow up for sale in January. Since then a woman’s ghostly figure has appeared in their bedroom and strange knocking noises on walls and tables have kept them awake at night. “These unexplained noises have become more and more frequent – last night it happened most nights. It’s really frightening. We cannot go on like this. We are losing sleep,” said Paul.
“It all began one night when I was asleep and my wife saw a woman looking down at me. She was short and slim and she looked sad. then she moved off after ten seconds and disappeared. I woke up with a start. I don’t know why. According to my wife’s description, the woman looked like my mother who died 12 years ago, but who my wife has never seen. [what, even in a photo??] Since then my wife and I have laid in bed and both felt something touch our legs. We even thought our dog had jumped onto the bed, but it hadn’t.
“Two nights ago there was a knock on the bedroom wall beside my wife’s head. The dog kept staring at the wall but would not come further into the room. On another occasion there was a bang on the table beside me. It was as if someone had slammed the bedside light down onto it. Another night, while we were both awake, we could both hear a scratching noise on the headboard. We don’t know what caused it. I’m a cynic, and I have always believed there is something to explain away unusual happenings. At first i laughed it off, but now I’m uneasy about it.”
The McKaigs have lived in the bungalow for two years and to their knowledge no one has died in the place. It was previously the home of an elderly couple, who are still alive.
Mr McKaig said he had not yet decided whether he would contact a priest for help.
Lynn Advertiser, 3rd November 1995.