73-year-old woman keeps getting felt-up by ghosts

Source: Dateline Zero 

“It’s like an octopus,” she says. “It started four months ago. I was lying in bed when I felt this creepy pair of hands.”

Doris Birch is being harassed by a cheeky spirit haunting her Herne Bay flat. The rude thing is touching her as she attempts to slumber in her bed. Because of this, the 73-year-old woman says she can no longer sleep at night.

Here is a description of the terrifying night-time attacks, in her own words:

“It’s like an octopus. It started four months ago. I was lying in bed when I felt this creepy pair of hands. I kicked frantically and it went away. Next time it came I hurled the duvet on to the floor!

“But the ghost keeps coming back. I’ve tried sleeping without the duvet. But it started shaking my mattress. I even threw the mattress off the bed and bought a new one but it has made no difference.

“I told my 16-year-old granddaughter and she was gobsmacked. She said I must be joking.

“People are going to think I am mad but it is as real as the day to me. I’m not lonely. I love living alone. But this is very creepy and is giving me the jitters. It’s harassing me. I need to call in the Ghostbusters.

“I told the vicar and he said it is a lost spirit. What I want to know is, why has it got lost in my flat?”

This Is Kent spoke to her pastor, Methodist Minister Hugh-Nigel Sheehan, 68, of Mortimer Street’s United Church. “I was approached by Mrs Birch but I fear I am not in a position to help. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“I have no expertise in this at all,” Sheehan continued. “I am neither a trained counsellor nor from a church with a tradition of exorcism such as the Catholic Church. It is very difficult to know how to respond.”

Read the full article at Dateline Zero.