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    In his new monthly column, BBC Radio’s Danny Robins will be scouring the archives in search of real-life ghost stories, starting with the Battersea Poltergeist

    Jun 10, 2021 2 minutes

    I’m Danny Robins and I don’t believe in ghosts... is what I would have confidently told you before I came across this truly strange case. On 27 January 1956, a mysterious old key appeared on the bed of 15-year-old Shirley Hitchings at 63 Wycliffe Road, an ordinary terraced house in Battersea, south London. That night, the house

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