Read other instalments of Danny Robins\u2019 series:<\/strong><\/p>\n The black monk of Pontefract<\/a><\/p>\n The ghost of Brooklands racing circuit<\/a><\/p>\n The Battersea Poltergeist<\/a><\/p>\n HMP Shepton Mallet<\/a><\/p>\n A Highlands horror story<\/a><\/p>\n A Walthamstow folk demon<\/a><\/p>\n Amanda\u2019s premonition<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> \u201cIt sounded like fighting, the thuds of bodies against walls.\u201d But, as Hog opened the bedroom door to investigate \u2013 it stopped, only to restart, even louder, as soon as he went back into the bedroom! \u201cIt was like people running down the corridor, pummelling the doors.\u201d Unsettled, Hog escaped, never to return.<\/p>\n The noises finally took their toll on Patti and she couldn\u2019t take it anymore. One night, in her final year at college, she ran out to confront whatever this invisible entity was that had caused her so much suffering over the two years she\u2019d lived at Tanfield House.<\/p>\n She found herself face to face not with a poltergeist, but with a very human threat \u2013 two men armed with baseball bats who had broken in to try and attack a girl who had moved into the flat just earlier that day. She was the ex-girlfriend of one of the men and they were there to wreak a violent revenge, but Patti, pumped up and ready to confront a ghost, fought them instead. While they succeeded in injuring the other girl, Patti did just enough to scare them off.<\/p>\n Now, as Patti looks back many years later, she sees whatever that presence in her room was in a different light. \u201cI felt that it empowered me, and at that moment, I was feeding off it.\u201d<\/p>\n For me, eeriest of all are the similarities between this real physical encounter and what Patti\u2019s boyfriend Hog experienced \u2013 the sounds of people fighting, the thuds of bodies against walls and pummelled doors. Can we contemplate that there really was a presence in Tanfield House and that, instead of tormenting Patti, it was actually trying to warn her of the impending danger?<\/p>\n This article was first published in the April 2022 of BBC History Revealed<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n
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