Tuesday, 9 April 2013

"Please give me a new house, pleaded mother who believed her home was haunted by a man called Nigel"

From The Daily Mail:

A frightened mother demanded a new home for herself and her young family - because she was convinced their terraced house was haunted by the ghost of a man called Nigel. Housing association tenant Stacey McGill claimed a spiritual presence flicked lights on and off, tampered with electrical appliances, moved posters around the walls and caused the floorboards to creak at the property in Loughborough.

The 29-year-old, who moved into the house last December with her partner and their 18-month-old daughter Chelsey, said a medium she hired to investigate the property confirmed a 'male energy' at their home. Paranormal investigator Dave Vickers said he felt a ghost run through his body at Ms McGill's home, and told how he allowed the spirit to communicate with the mother-of-one via a scrawled message on a piece of paper. He described sensing the presence of a man aged in his late 30s whose name was Nigel.

Mr Vickers, from TSL Holistic Centre, twice visited Ms McGill's home with Carly Adams from the Female Paranormal Investigation team to examine her claims.

"On entering the house I was immediately aware of energy at the end of the hall way, the energy presented itself as a male, and kept saying "I am at the back",' said Mr Vickers. "A lot of the activity occurred to the back of the property, mainly the rear bedroom. Going up the stairs the male energy made his presence more known, cold spots were experienced. I picked up on a man in his late thirties. I picked up on the name "Nigel".

"It was a great relief to Ms McGill and her daughter when I eventually established that "Nigel" was in fact the name of her partner, who is very much alive, he's just a bit on the shy and retiring side and had spent the past few weeks decorating the back bedroom. He means no harm to anyone and will not harm anyone. Further investigations into the haunting will not be needed,' Mr Vickers concluded.

7 comments:

Bayard said...

That's a good way of avoiding the bedroom tax:
"Is this your spare room?"
"No, Nigel lives in it"

Anonymous said...

If they kick him out, will he have to be re-housed? I hope they've been Making Plans for... no, can't do it.

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, good point.

RA, everybody remembers the verses of that song, but can you remember the Corus?

A K Haart said...

"the energy presented itself as a male"

Don't get much of that in our house, although I did make the coffee this evening.

Anonymous said...

Mark, I listen to that song practically every day. Don't even start! I guess your joke is that there isn't a defined chorus?

And if young Nigel says he's happy
He must be happy
He must be happy
He must be happy in his world

Nigel isn't outspoken
But he likes to speak
And he loves to be spoken to
(in his world)
Nigel is happy in his world
(in his world)

Anonymous said...

Oh my God I completely missed the joke!! British Steel = Corus. Dammit!!

And I especially should have got that... I've made the point previously, because the song was released in 1979, the year Thatcher was elected, who privatised British Steel.

Mark Wadsworth said...

AKH, allow me to paraphrase:

"Mrs Haart claimed a spiritual presence flicked lights on and off, tampered with electrical appliances, moved posters around the walls and occasionally made coffee at the property."

RA, I thank you. You've been a great audience etc.