Three Lions singer Ian Broudie has been haunted by ghosts. The Lightning Seeds frontman and Britpop icon has revealed the ghouls made loud noises and moved objects which scared the wits out of him.
Ian was told that 22 bodies snatched by grave robbers from a nearby cemetery were found in the basement of a neighbouring house in 1826.
Ian, 65, said: “In the mid-80s, I was so preoccupied with music, and so focused on the work I was doing with bands in the studio, that it took me a long time to realise the extent to which my flat was riddled with ghosts.”
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The Life of Riley hitmaker had moved into a new pad on the third floor of a Georgian terraced house in Hope Street in Liverpool.
He continued: “I’d be sitting in the living room at night and these strange dragging and clanking noises would be coming from the attic room above.
“There would be sudden bangs, so loud they’d make you jump.
“I told myself that the noises couldn’t be coming from upstairs, as there was no one up there.
“They must have been coming from next door. This seemed reasonable because the guy next door was pretty weird.
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“He had a CB radio and sometimes his broadcasts would come through our speakers.
“If anyone was going to be banging stuff in the middle of the night, I thought, it would have been him.
“I asked him to keep the noise down when I saw him, but he seemed unimpressed by this.
“He acted like he wasn’t doing anything wrong and flat out denied making banging noises at night.”
Ian said that when pals crashed at his gaff every one of them would quit trying to sleep in the attic room to kip on the sofa instead – with one telling him: “It’s mad up there.”
He also told how his girlfriend at the time, Becky, warned him there was “something very weird about this place”.
In his new book Tomorrow’s Here Today, Ian said he eventually accepted that “strange banging and dragging noises” were coming from his roof space.
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He added: “Things started to get weirder. If you put something on the bed and left the room, then it might have moved when you returned, or have vanished completely.
“One time we came back and found a load of things from the kitchen piled up on the bed.
“The dragging noises would come every night and sometimes there were terrible smells in the attic.
“I can’t really describe what the smells were like because I’ve never come across anything like them, before or after.
“One time I tried to go up there and I physically couldn’t get into the room because the smell was like a thick wall that I couldn’t get past.”
Ian was told that 22 bodies snatched by grave robbers from a nearby cemetery and said: “Whether all this explains why our attic was the focus of all the strangeness, I don’t know. Eventually, me and Becky had enough and moved out.
“The people who moved in after us had the same problems with bangs and noises and things moving about. They had a cat that used to sit at the bottom of the attic stairs, where the noises came from.
“It would never go up there, but it used to sit in the same place all night, looking up the stairs with its fur up on his back. Sometimes it would make horrible noises, like hissing or snarling. They moved out almost immediately.
“I know that a lot of people will read this and think, ‘That’s nonsense. There’s no such thing as ghosts.’ All I can say is: you wouldn’t think that if you had lived in that flat.”
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