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First published on July 29, 1982 WHEN the friendly ghost in Maurice and Beryl Messenger's 600 year old thatched cottage turned nasty they decided she had to go. They were both so frightened during one night that they went to their local vicar, the Rev Michael Ward, from Shalbourne. And he called in the Rev Geoffrey Barton, of Devizes, to exorcise the ghost. Maurice said today: "I was terrified. There was something pressing on me and trying to take me over from below the neck." His wife felt the same sensation. "It's an experience I wouldn't want to go through again," she said. When they first heard the creaks and bumps upstairs in their cottage at Ham, near Hungerford, they thought it was the usual noises found in any old house. It wasn't until a big glass candlestick crashed from a window pelmet and went flying across the room about four months ago that they realised they were not alone. The ghost drew back the curtains as they slept, hung up a shirt on a peg behind the door and moved ornaments around. "It's been a nightmare for us," said Beryl, an education welfare officer for Berkshire County Council. "We are both rational people and joked about it at first. "We'd sit in the lounge and hear it walk across the bedroom above. I bought a fitted carpet to soften the noise but it didn't stop it." Maurice, 44, an engineer for Tenable Ltd, of Marlborough, said he thought the ghost got upset when they stopped talking to it. He added: "But Mr Barton persuaded the ghost, or whatever it was, to go on its way. "We haven't heard anything since. It's almost too quiet now." Mr Barton, Chaplain to Roundway Hospital, is the Bishop's adviser to parishes on the Ministry of Deliverance. Mr Ward said: "It happens from time to time that an unsettled being needs to be put to rest. "This is not something that any clergyman can do on his own, and there were other people praying about it at the time we were in the house. It does illustrate the power of prayer." The ghost is thought to have been of a woman who lived in the cottage and died there. Back to 1982 index |
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