Maureen Hall moved from Lincoln to Teesside in 1992 with a friend to what she thought was a dream house. In retrospect in turned out to be more of a nightmare. The day she moved in to the three floored house, built in 1867, in Saltburn by the sea, strange things began to happen. Her friend saw the image of a young girl in the large space under the stairs. It was not easy to make out, but it was definitely a female child and she seemed extremely distraught. From day one Maureen and her friend were plagued by intermittent sounds of a child crying. 'It was more like wailing, uncontrollable sobbing and wailing', says Maureen. Her dad, a fierce non believer in the supernatural, also heard the crying. Her son in law once tried to exit a room only to find the handle held fast from outside. When he eventually got out there was no one to been seen. Friends staying over would answer raps on the door in the small hours of the night only to find an empty hallway.
Even her dog, who normally slept outside her bedroom door, would occasionally be rooted to the floor, literally frozen with terror, under the stairs with utter terror. Maureen had occasion to literally pick the dog up and carry it up the stairs with her. The disembodied crying carried on throughout the five years she lived there and Maureen uncovered that behind the house was a row of old style cottages on Garnett Back Street, (which is now no longer there.) She also found out that there had been a lot of child fatalities in those cottages although not in suspicious circumstances. Could there have been a young life lost in Maureen's old house? A child who still resides there in its eternal plight.
