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First published in July 23, 1987 Is Lucienne the smelly spook? A man whose ghost is reputed to be haunting a home with strange draughts and odours has been identified. Physiotherapist Tricia da Silva has felt the presence of a spectre in her Faringdon Road home since she moved in two years ago. She and her friends have also been puzzled by the smell of burning cigarettes when no one is smoking, and a cold patch on one of the stairs. The image grew in her mind of a tall bearded young man with unusually bony wrists - a picture confirmed by neighbouring newsagent Anna Satchell. Mrs Satchell remembered a man called Lucienne who she says died in 1982. Now inquiries by the Evening Advertiser have identified the man as Lucienne Constanziello. Former landlord of the house, Stan Wysocki, 51, of Sandringham Road, recalled finding the body of his tenant in October that year. "He was a very slim man with long hair," said Mr Wysocki. "I remember he had been working as a driver, but when he stopped that he seemed to become depressed and a different person." "He got thinner and thinner and I sometimes saw him with bandages on his wrists. He was always locked up in his room, and never said anything." "But several tenants lived in the same bedsit as Lucienne before I sold the house in 1984. They never complained about any haunting, and I know nothing of this cold patch." Juliana Hogg, 29, who now lives in Gloucestershire, recalls speaking to Lucienne just before he died. "I was cleaning out my fish tank to put my gerbils in, and he joked to me that they would drown," she said. "His body was found just over a week later." "He was very much a loner and you hardly ever saw him. His body lay undiscovered for a week because nobody thought anything of not seeing him around." "I am a bit sceptical about the cold patch because he never went up the stairs. As far as the odours go his bedsit certainly stank." Mr Constanziello's sister, who live in Swindon, and asked not to be named, said she had not seen her brother for a long time before his death. Wiltshire coroner's office confirmed that Lucienne Constanziello died of bronchial pneumonia. Back to 1987 index |
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