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Bizarre and Strange Stories from Newcastle - East Lambton GREMLINS!

Easter Monday - no end in sight from Covid 19 lock down.
However irritating this is we have the most successful lock down numbers in the world.
So it's got to be all about the GHOST STORIES right now.

This one is from East Lambton and a little more recent than the previous stories - this one is from 1950.



BRISBANE TELEGRAPH
8th JANUARY 1950

GREMLINS?

Newcastle: Mrs Alice Atkinson, 82,of Griffith Street East Lambton has to keep replacing pieces of glassware and crockery broken by an unknown force.

Mrs. Atkinson, a widow, who lives alone, said that for a number of years her glass, china wear and window panes have been exploding or just quietly  cracking.

"One night recently a jug an inch thick went off like a gun," she said.

"In the morning it was cut clean in half as though with a knife".
Mrs Atkinson produced pieces of glass wear and crockery in which the cracks were developing.
About half the window panes in Mrs. Atkinson's house are cracking progressively and the street light outside her house  'blows up' frequently.

Some visitors to Mrs. Atkinson's house wonder whether her collection of relics of convict days could be attracting a poltergeist.

Psychic Research Investigators are not convinced of the existence of poltergeists - mischievous spirits -  but they cannot explain the behaviours of inanimate objects in some houses.
Mrs. Atkinson possesses many relics of Australia's convict days.


Her father was a first cousin of Red Kelly, father of Ned Kelly.


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