Steve Bushfield, now editor of Press Gazette Media Guardian, found himself at the brief focus of a poltergeist case while working for the Nottingham Evening Post. After repeated requests to investigate strange events at Rolleston Drive. Bushfield visited the office cabin of Arnold Self Drive. As he entered, he received an abrupt “welcome” in the form of an ashtray flung across the room. Police had previously been called to investigate loud bangs and thuds around the office, initially suspecting local youths with catapults. One customer told Bushfield, “I’ve been in that office, been hit with notepads, and I don’t believe it’s a hoax.” While reports of eerie activity have since faded, locals acknowledge the site’s spooky history. Today, any misplaced keys are attributed to human forgetfulness, not restless spirits.

Years earlier, poltergeist-like disturbances were also reported on Sandfield Road. Denise Lee, a former resident of No. 90, shared her unsettling experiences on social media, saying, “Something else was living with us.” Her youngest child refused to sleep in one room, claiming “monsters came out of the walls.” Lee herself heard coughing and footsteps rushing to the bathroom, only to find no one there. She also recalled an incident where her eldest and a friend were mysteriously locked in a room, surrounded by the sound of shattering glass. Fortunately, the current resident, Caroline Keane-Hayes, reports no unusual activity in the house today.

The Nottingham Guardian Journal documented another chilling tale in the 1960s involving a ghostly passenger. According to the report, a double-decker bus operated by Trent Buses was travelling along the A60 Mansfield Road, north out of Nottingham and passing through Arnold. The bus stopped outside Redhill Cemetery to pick up a single passenger who boarded, and then headed to the upper level. But when the conductress went to collect his fare, she found the upper deck completely empty. The bus was later searched by police at its final destination, but no trace of the mysterious passenger was ever found.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ArnoldCommunityGroup
Nottingham Guardian Journal – Nottingham City Centre Library
Bygones July 2006 – Haunted Nottinghamshire
Paranormal Database – Nottingham data

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