The Racist Ghost

Haunted

Panoply

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

It was just a modest home in a poor part of London, but a previous resident didn't seem ready to leave it. Each and every day a little old woman would wander into Tyronne's kitchen and talk to his mother. The spirit seemed fairly harmless - though Tyronne's parents worried when the old lady fixated on their two-year-old daughter in her cot. However, when the family finally sold the property stories reached Tyronne that the ghostly former inhabitant was making life uncomfortable for any immigrants taking up residence. Had the ghost really taken her prejudices with her into the afterlife?

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0:00.0	My mom, she was scared, because she didn't know what was going to happen next.
0:07.0	Do ghosts exist?
0:12.0	Your mom actually talked to a ghost?
0:14.0	Yes, she actually got replies.
0:16.0	If not, why do we see them?
0:19.0	Months and months of living with a ghost
0:22.0	walking into the kitchen every morning and seeing a ghost in your kitchen.
0:27.0	Yeah.
0:28.0	My mom saw practically every day.
0:31.0	This is haunted. Each episode will investigate one person's ghost story, not just what happened, but why.
0:41.0	It feels something that was probably quite serious at the time.
0:45.0	When my mom got a priest involved, it was.
0:48.0	I'm Danny Robbins, and this time we travel back to East London in the 1970s, an unlucky house on a dark street, a little
0:56.7	girl who knew things she shouldn't, and a restless spirit that divided a community.
1:03.8	This is episode 2, the racist ghost. Oh, I live in Wolframstone, an area of East London that's a perfect snapshot of multicultural Britain.
1:46.0	In Old English, Wolfhamstone means Welcome Place.
1:50.1	And over the years, people have settled here, layer upon layer.
1:53.8	Old school Cockney Londoners mingle with Pakistani families,
1:57.3	Caribbean's, and more recent Eastern European immigrants.
2:01.5	Layers, like wallpaper, each one upon the last, change, but always something old remains.
2:10.0	Are you ready to see the house again?
2:11.6	Yeah, yeah, yeah. Should you house again? Yeah, yeah.
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