Instead, his brother Maynard’s legacy has been summed up in headlines like “Gun-Wielding Man Shot Down by Officer. The inexplicable events were said to include green foam flowing from the taps and toilet, objects being thrown around and levitating, photographs being slashed with a sharp knife and even family members being slapped and pushed downstairs. Whilst producing a horror movie based on the strange happenings at the house itself, Bil saw the property was up for sale. That was really helpful, and Eric was particularly good at steering us to those kinds of places, and winkling out little bits and pieces. Beth only spotted the 'encounter' when she got home the next day but admits if she'd seen it while still in the house she'd have insisted on leaving.

He carried around his own autographed copy of The Autobiography of Malcolm X until he passed it down to his younger brother Kendal. Inexplicable events were said to include green foam appearing from the taps, objects being thrown around and levitating, photographs being slashed and even family members being slapped and shoved down the stairs. Diane Pritchard, then 12, was dragged upstairs to her bedroom and almost strangled by her curtains, the family claimed. The décor is very much in the style of the 1970s, with posters of the Osmonds still hanging on some of the walls, but the house is seemingly unchanged since the apparent poltergeist activity.My dad remembers watching his older, cooler cousin get up every day, put on stylish suits, and go off in Detroit to do his own thing. An unassuming three-bedroom home where a little girl was allegedly dragged upstairs and almost strangled by curtains has been named as a county's most haunted. A visitor who stayed in the house posted online: “This is the place where I had the most amazing phenomena. Antonia Hylton is a Peabody and Emmy-award winning journalist at NBC News reporting on politics and civil rights, and the co-host of the hit podcast Southlake and Grapevine.

I can see the nostrils open, I can see eyes, really chiselled cheekbones, and if you zoom in closer you can see pupils. The sensory deprivation of waiting silently in the dark rivals the tenseness of any horror film, and for those who do believe I imagine it is a great way to reaffirm their need to hunt for more evidence. In 1966 Maynard entered the University of Alabama as a freshman, a little more than two years after George Wallace, a notorious racist and the governor of Alabama, had stood in the schoolhouse door of Foster Auditorium. This lone man, in a cabin that acts like a mirror for his disturbed mind – does this scenario occur in other works?The assaults become increasingly violent and are witnessed by the Maynards and acquaintances, forcing Sally’s parents to finally seek help from a local priest.

There was still a bottle in my jacket pocket when this photo of Chris Maynard and me was taken at 1. And no Black man as conscious and culturally critical as him, they reason, would pull a revolver on a white police officer in Alabama without the full knowledge of how that encounter would end. I would probably have been mildly shocked if someone said ‘You know… you’re going to scare the Bejesus out of kids. Maynard introduced them to the forefathers of hip-hop, blasting the Last Poets from that hot guest room.Rene Holden was spiritually drawn to the supernatural, regularly performing psychic readings for friends and family. I was doing jury service in Winchester at the time, and during the lunch break I wandered around Winchester and found the museum and remembered the objects and wondered if the museum would be interested in either having the objects or of knowing about them.

We knew when we came into the middle of the house that there must have been a fireplace because of the chimney up above, but to all intents and purposes there was no fireplace visible, there were just hardboard walls, so we had to literally pull the house to pieces before we could see how it had actually been constructed. when a pea souper had descended over the housing estate, making it difficult when looking at the roundabout to determine what were trees and what were scary black monks.They and other Black families had heard that the Ku Klux Klan had been swarming and closely watching the college campus. She was a regular attendee at the Pritchard house throughout the haunting, which is recorded in Wilson’s book, and recounted her experiences to her son. Chris helpfully opened the copy that remained proudly tucked under his arm for the rest of the evening. In fact, many of Fred’s antics were both amazing and often highly amusing, like when he calmly poured an entire jug of milk he removed from the fridge over a sceptical aunt, leaving the kids in stitches. Diane was said to have been pinned by furniture heavy enough to crush her, though she was fortunately and strangely unharmed.