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Ghosts have been known to occasionally make themselves useful in various ways, but giving out free shampoos is a new one for me.  The "Essex County Herald," June 19, 1924:

The curious story of a ghost that occupied itself in shampooing customers in a Kensington hairdressers shop is told by Mary L. Lewes to "The Queer Side of Things," recently published here, says a London correspondent of the New York World.

A woman who entered the shop in a busy hour was told she must wait until an assistant was free, the story goes. Very soon a tall girl with red hair and a velvet bow on her head came to the customer and set to work to shampoo her. The business over and the lady ready to put on her hat again, she turned around to ask the assistant for her bill, but to her surprise the girl had gone. Just then another attendant came in and said: "Now, madam, I am ready." 

But I have just been shampooed, answered the customer, as indeed her hair showed, without doubt, that it had just been expertly washed. Whereupon the assistant had to give in, and at last, being pressed for explanation, owned that the same thing had happened to other customers. 

There was no ordinary explanation, beyond the fact that a girl with red hair who used until lately to be employed there had committed suicide, abd that it was possibly her uneasy spirit that still returned to the scene of her former occupation.