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Wednesday, May 14, 2025

Newspaper Clipping of the Day

Via Newspapers.com



An unusual prowler was reported in the “London Daily Mirror,” February 13, 1974:

A one-legged barefoot ghost seemed to keep a step ahead of the police who answered a burglar alarm call yesterday. 

For when they answered the call at the home of Mr. Kenneth Broadhead in Ashill, near Thetford, Norfolk--they found the house supernaturally secure, with nothing stolen. 

And the only clue nearly made their hair stand on end. 

That was a single spooky row of footprints--all made by the same foot--which had hopped across the floor of a room and stopped against a solid brick wall.

Then the ghost apparently de-materialised through a door and set off the burglar alarm. 

A senior police officer said: “Apparently it is the ghost of a one-legged Jesuit priest, and it is known at the house. 

“But why set off a burglar alarm when you can just melt through a door?”

Why, indeed?

1 comment:

  1. "...the ghost of a one-legged Jesuit priest..." Pazuzu wouldn't have known what hit him.

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