Mystery noises worry woman living alone.
Knocks on door – but there is no knocker.
Mysterious bangings on the front door of the cottage where she lives alone in Widdington main street have been worrying 74-year-old Miss Gladys Kingdon for the past two years. Now, for the first time, she has told of her frightening experiences. “And I feel so much lighter, so much better now that I have shared my trouble with someone. Now I only hope that I can find some sort of logical explanation,” she said this week.
The last incident was on Sunday night about 10.30 p.m. Two muffled knocks sounded on the door of 7 South Green, the house into which Miss Kingdon moved after 12 years in number six next door. She got up and looked out of her bedroom window, but the village street was deserted. “No one could have got away in the time it took me to reach the window,” she told the Observer as she sipped a cup of tea in her tiny living room. “If it is someone doing it deliberately, they must be very silly.”
Although she often thinks of the knocking as she lies in bed at night, Miss Kingdon does not let the thought of what might be outside worry her too much. “But it is disturbing when you don’t know what causes it.” Normally the noises are like those which would be made by a heavy metal knocker. But there is no knocker on the door.
Miss Kingdon, an active, alert figure wearing a cardigan and jeans ready for a home decorating job, took a realistic view of things. She is not the type to imagine strange experiences, yet she keeps an open mind on the subject of psychic phenomena, she said. Her main concern at the moment is to locate anyone who may have had a similar experience and may be able to offer a plausible explanation.
Herts and Essex Observer, 7th May 1965.
Ghostly knockings in night alarm woman.
Miss Kingdon, who until today has kept her experiences a secret, said that on the first occasion the knocks came after she had been in bed and asleep for two hours. “It was a still night and there was no other sound to be heard,” she said. The episode was repeated a few months later. “It worried me a little then because I could not go back to sleep afterwards,” she said.
When Miss Kingdon moved next door last August she tried to forget what had happened at her former home. But her new front door was shuddering under more heavy blows. Miss Kingdon says the noises are like those made by a heavy metal knocker – but there is no knocker on her door. “I am not usually the type to imagine things or get upset but I cannot fathom this out,” she said. “I wish I could find some explanation.”
Miss Kingdon believes she has certain psychic powers because of dreams which have come true.
The cottage at South Green, Widdington, where Miss Kingdon says she hears mysterious knocking.
Saffron Walden Weekly News, 7th May 1965.