Welcome to Unexplained Extra with me, Richard McLean Smith.

For the weeks in between episodes, we look at the stories that for one reason or other

didn't make it into the show.

In last week's episode, under the asphalt, we came across some strange goings-on taking

place inside a south London housing estate in the 1970s, in particular a section of the

estate known as Frankham House.

Some believe the building has been haunted ever since its construction in the 1930s, having

been built on the site of Christ Church Cemetery, the church being knocked down to make way for

the estate.

Interestingly, many of the occupants who claim to have experienced the hauntings often

spoke of seeing the figure of a tall man moving around their apartments.

It brought to mind another south London ghost that is alleged to have plagued a property

in neighbouring broccoli, not more than a kilometre from Frankham House.

In the summer of 1910, the journalist and writer Elliot O'Donnell relayed a peculiar

story in the London-based newspaper The Weekly Dispatch, as the writer of apparent true-life

hauntings.

He had got word of a terrifying apparition that had been stalking a house at the northern

end of broccoli road in London.

After some diligent work, he managed to track down the house's former owners, and Mrs

and Mr Evans.

As O'Donnell maintained, both were well-educated, Mr Evans being a solicitor, and both were

perfectly sane and rational in their outlook.

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