Ghost lady

Pretty Beryl Gladwin doesn't get much sleep. Between 4 and "Y 6am, three mornings a week, she is visited by a ghost wearing miner's boots. Her life is made such a misery that her parents are applying for a new home for themselves and their seven children. Beryl, 18, tried sleeping with her parents, but the amorous spook was not deterred. '

First it tugs at the bedclothes and then I feel it get next to me in the bed. It holds my hand and starts kissing me and biting my neck.' The haunting began about the end of February 1975, and after a couple of frightening weeks, the family called in a clairvoyant, Simon Alexander. Mr Alexander kept a vigil at one of the regular trysting times, and felt a malevolent presence outside the room. 'It tried to make me leave by making me feel ill. I had to fight hard to stay.

Then it materialized in the room. It was trying to dodge me and was difficult to get into focus. I could see pit boots clearly, and miner's baggy herringbone trousers held up by a wide belt with a big buckle. It tried to get in with Beryl and kiss her.

She was trembling with fear.' He went on: 'I believe it's the ghost of a miner called Dexter who used to live in the house. He had 12 children of his own, and I'm certain he will make love to Beryl unless something is done soon.' The Gladwins, as seems to be a pattern in council-house hauntings, had only moved into the house six months previously. The church seems unhurried about who gets laid first. The vicar of Worksop, conducting his own

investigation, said an exorcism might be a possibility. Some time after the story appeared, the People carried a little note tucked away where few would see it. It read: 'Mr George Dexter, of 31 Windmill Lane Worksop, states that the story we published on March 9 headed "The Ghost that Left Love Bites" was a slur on his dead brother. There was no such intention and we are sorry if the report caused embarrassment to the Dexter family.'

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