ghughesarch
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http://www.citymetric.com/horizons/...sing-tenants-being-attacked-angry-ghosts-1855
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Sheffield, an area more famous for spawning the Arctic Monkeys than a terrifying army of spectres, is apparently a hotbed of paranormal activity. More bafflingly, most of this appears to be concentrated around Sheffield’s social housing stock.
InsideHousing, the UK social housing industry magazine, reported in late 2013 that, since 2003, Sheffield Council had seen a disproportionate number of complaints from tenants that their homes were being haunted. Sure, other associations received them too – but the sheer volume of Sheffield’s alleged visitations during that ten-year period is a mystery of X-Files-series-three proportions. (In case you were wondering, tenants’ beliefs in the spectral afterlife are treated seriously by most social landlords; Easington Council even paid an exorcist £60 to rid one County Durham resident of a poltergeist.)
So what’s the deal? I’m sure many skeptics would be quick to suggest that the reports indicate nothing more than attempts to exploit councils and housing associations in the hope of upgrades to larger properties. But while different counties do have their own rules regarding transfers, overcrowded social properties and large register sizes are hardly unique to Sheffield, which received 47 separate reports over the ten years.
Relative to the rest of the country, that’s a huge number – unless other social landlords regularly receive hauntings without bothering to write it down, 64 per cent of all UK social housing hauntings in that ten-year period happened in Sheffield
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Sheffield, an area more famous for spawning the Arctic Monkeys than a terrifying army of spectres, is apparently a hotbed of paranormal activity. More bafflingly, most of this appears to be concentrated around Sheffield’s social housing stock.
InsideHousing, the UK social housing industry magazine, reported in late 2013 that, since 2003, Sheffield Council had seen a disproportionate number of complaints from tenants that their homes were being haunted. Sure, other associations received them too – but the sheer volume of Sheffield’s alleged visitations during that ten-year period is a mystery of X-Files-series-three proportions. (In case you were wondering, tenants’ beliefs in the spectral afterlife are treated seriously by most social landlords; Easington Council even paid an exorcist £60 to rid one County Durham resident of a poltergeist.)
So what’s the deal? I’m sure many skeptics would be quick to suggest that the reports indicate nothing more than attempts to exploit councils and housing associations in the hope of upgrades to larger properties. But while different counties do have their own rules regarding transfers, overcrowded social properties and large register sizes are hardly unique to Sheffield, which received 47 separate reports over the ten years.
Relative to the rest of the country, that’s a huge number – unless other social landlords regularly receive hauntings without bothering to write it down, 64 per cent of all UK social housing hauntings in that ten-year period happened in Sheffield