Newspaper Clipping of the Day

I post a lot of ghost stories here, but you have to admit that a misandrist, baby-tickling spook is fairly unique.  The “Hartford Courant,” September 26, 1961:

NOTTINGHAM, England (UPI)--England, which has reported more ghosts over the years than any other country has a new one: a woman in pigtails who goes around tickling babies.

Tenants of an apartment house here believe the ghost is that of a woman who killed herself there several years ago. They said she spooks them by: 

Reaching out her arms in a gesture of appeal.

Showing herself only to women. 

Moving articles from cupboards. 

Leslie Weatherill, one of the tenants, said flatly: "We are moving out. We have only lived here a week, but my wife has seen the ghost twice.”

Reginald King, another tenant, said his child began to laugh as it slept in its cot.

“When one of the children we have staying with us got up she asked if that 'strange woman' would be coming back,” King said. 'She had seen her tickling the baby.”

“Although no men here have seen the ghost, all of them will tell you how frightened they are,” King said.  “Even on a warm night rooms go cold and drafty. We know we are being watched." 

Louis Leonardi, another tenant, said a bar of soap was missing mysteriously and later was found.  He also said “knives have been moved mysteriously from cupboards to the table.”