Salon where hair stands on end.
Staff at a hairdressing salon fear the place may be haunted. Several weird happenings at the New Moon Salon in North Street, Wellington have been enough to make people’s hair stand on end. Strange noises have been heard in the ancient cellar. And a bottle of setting lotion suddenly shattered inexplicably.
A handbag apparently jumped off a shelf and bounced down the stairs when no-one was near it. Grey hair was found all over the floor when staff arrived for work one Saturday morning. And equipment had apparently been moved overnight.
Finally a ghostly apparition appeared on the darkened stairs one afternoon. Manageress Mrs Pauline Redwood said: “There are so many unexplained things happening here that we feel the place may be haunted. I believe in ghosts myself because I have seen one.”
The salon is converted from a public house which dates back hundreds of years, although there have been no previous mentions of ghosts.
Bristol Evening Post, 10th June 1977.