Think your house is haunted? The truth could be MUCH worse…
It’s September 1941, and Theodore Edward Coneys had fallen on hard times so he went to visit his old friend Philip Peters, who he hadn’t seen in years.
When he got to the house it was empty and unlocked (Peters was visiting his wife in hospital) so Coneys let himself into the house to have a look around.
He found a tiny door that led to the attic room and since he was a small man he squeezed through and decided that it was better than living on the streets.
He lived there for several weeks, only coming out of his hiding spot when Peters left the house, to help himself to some food and use the bathroom.
This lasted until winter 1941 when Coneys emerged from his hiding place and started cooking a meal.
Unfortunately Philip Peters hadn’t gone out, he was only napping.
He woke, didn’t recognise his old friend and thought the house was being burgled.
The two fought and Coneys pistol-whipped the 73 year-old half asleep man to death.
Instead of fleeing, Coneys went back to his hiding place, and when friends eventually found the body and called the police, authorities were baffled as to why all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
A short time later Peter’s wife (he had been visiting her in hospital for a broken hip) was allowed home and hired a series of housekeepers to look after her while she recovered, but one after the other they all left, thinking the house was haunted because of the strange nosies they heard coming from the attic and furniture and household things being moved.
Soon Mrs Peters also became convinced there was a spook and left to move in with her son.
When people passed they’d hear strange noises and see lights on in the house, so the reputation for the house being haunted grew until the police investigated and searched the property
They found nothing but decided to keep watch anyway and in June 1942, 11 months after he’d moved in, the police finally saw a curtain move and saw Coney’s face at the window.
They raided the house and caught him climbing into his attic room.
They had always assumed the door was too small for anyone to fit through.
Coneys was arrested and convicted of murdering Peters.
He died on May 16th 1967 in prison.
Luckily he felt quite at home in the small cell.
So if you’re hearing strange noises in your house, don’t automatically assume it’s a ghost.
Instead take comfort in the fact that it might only be a homeless man living in your attic wearing just his underpants and talking softly to himself.
Sleep well
Best
Jack
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