Poltergeist Forces Family to Flee

Marcia Howells breaks down in tears as she recalls the ghostly goings on.
Photo: ITV Wales News

t's 1965 and on Rhondda Street in Swansea one family has been forced to flee their home in terror as a poltergeist has been throwing the furniture around.

This is not a plot from a horror film - it's a HTV Wales News report.

Mum Marcia Howells tells reporter John Doyle about the ghostly activity:

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Mrs Howells says bottles flew threw the air along with furniture and the baby's cot was turned upside down

Eventually the police were called and had to breakdown a bedroom door that was locked from the inside, "It couldn't be anything human" says Mrs Howells.

The scene in the living room. Credit: ITV Wales News

Even the kitchen cooker was apparently pulled out and overturned. Credit: ITV Wales News