Daily Mail - 12.08.2019

Daily Mail, Monday, August 12, 2019 Page 33

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by Claudia Connell

A

paintbrush coated

in dried, red paint on

my kitchen table that

did not belong to me,

and had absolutely not

been there when i left the house

that morning, was what it took

for me finally to accept that

something weird was happening

in my new home.

it was the culmination of months of

mysterious occurrences that i had done

my best to put down to forgetfulness or

my imagination. but this was a paint-

brush, dipped in scarlet paint suddenly

showing up in a house where i lived

alone and was not having any decorat-

ing work done. i would have given

anything for there to be a rational

explanation — but i drew a blank.

ask anybody who knows me and they’ll

tell you that i’m the least ‘woo woo’

person you could meet. until recently, i

didn’t believe in anything supernatural

and thought there was always a logical,

scientific explanation for anything

vaguely weird or paranormal. then i

moved into my house in brighton.

Like so many Londoners, i decided to

leave the capital for a new start some-

where less frantic. i chose brighton

Could a home

healer rescue my

haunted house?

I didn’t fall in

love, I rose in it

AUTHOR TONI

MORRISON

Spooky drawings

on the wall. Vanishing

earrings. And who

IS knocking at the

front door? When

CLAUDIA CONNELL

moved house she

was terrified

by a series of

unexplained

events. So...

Mystery:

Claudia

Connell and

(right) Emma

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