rashore Posted June 27, 2017 #1 Share Posted June 27, 2017 Quote Beach has only once been to Bedfordshire, a tiny English county near London. He got stuck in its chief town, Luton, took a room in a sordid pub (the bookshelf had a rack full of well-thumbed pornographic magazines – if only Tripadvisor had been around…) and missed his bus.* In any case, enough of Luton. We head to Aspley Guise, once on the western Marches of Bedfordshire and a weird haunting that gets confused with local politics. This report comes from that rather thick file of haunted houses that are difficult to rent. These include tenants who complained about ghosts to their landlords; landlords who took non-rent paying haunted tenants to court; etc etc. Here, though, we have an owner asking for a reduction in tax payable to the council because his house was said to be haunted. The reason for this was that the house would be worth less, therefore, the ‘rates’ should have been, in the view of the owner, lower. So far, frankly so normal. Lots of such stories. What is unusual is the reaction of the local housing committee. Typically they ignored the request or investigated the request then ignored it. Here the Assessments Committee has a séance! The date was fall 1947. http://www.strangehistory.net/2017/06/24/council-seance-haunted-house/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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