Listen Now: Audible True Crime – Ghost Story

Journalist Tristan Redmond grew up in a Victorian house on Queen’s Road in London. As a teenager in the 1990s, he noticed strange things in his top-floor bedroom: a vase that moved from the mantelpiece to the desk overnight, lights that flickered on and off, and a persistent cold feeling when he was alone. He assumed his sister was playing tricks, then forgot about it entirely after he left home, became a journalist covering French labor strikes and the war in Ukraine, and stopped believing in ghosts.

Years later, a former neighbor named Charles Penellis reached out. Penellis, a local historian who describes himself as “definitely not gossiping,” was collecting donations for a museum when he knocked on the door of Redmond’s old house. The woman who answered told him a story: an American man who had lived there previously had shown up unannounced and asked, point-blank, “Do you still have that ghost in the top bedroom?” He described experiences identical to Redmond’s. The woman’s own daughter had long insisted that a faceless woman visited her room at night and sat on her bed. The mother had dismissed it. Now she had three separate, unconnected families reporting the same phenomenon in the same room.