AN ELDERLY Neyland couple, who fear they have an ‘evil’ supernatural force in their home, are desperate to move, or even have their house demolished.

Sandra, 79, and Dennis Holman, 79, have lived at the 260-year-old Honeyborough Farmhouse, Honeyborough Road for the past 17 years, having moved from Croydon.

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Dennis said: “We’ve been here 17 years with no problems, this all started five weeks ago. How it first happened was, I’ve got all these sheds here and I came out about five weeks ago to strim the long grass; I went in the middle shed and it was in chaos, with empty packets of cat food, but no signs of a cat.”

Dennis only found part of the strimmer’s box, with no strimmer, but eventually it at the very bottom of a pile of tools, sinisterly wrapped up in tape, but only after he had bought a new one in the meantime.

The malicious moving of objects and tools continued.

“Every time I put anything in the utility room it’s wrapped up in tape,” said Dennis.

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“We had a couple of people ring up, they are spiritualists; I don’t believe in ghosts, but I certainly believe in the supernatural now.

“I’ve seen things pop up and appear in front of me, it could be something like a two-gallon pot of paint.

“It used to put masking tape on it, reams and reams; this thing must have an unlimited source, everything is wrapped up in tape.”

The Holmans, neither of them in the best of health, have been so frightened they have spent the last few nights staying in nearby hotels, but are rapidly running out of money.

Dennis added: “It takes things out of your pockets, it’s taken my glasses and had two sets of hearing aids.

“I feel gutted; honestly, how would you feel?”

Sandra added: “It’s even had my blue badge, that’s gone, it’s frightening. I actually feel quite sick with the whole thing.”

Dennis is convinced the presence, with its preference for paint and tools, is a relatively modern phenomenon.

“It’s doing things, even electrical things; it wire things and un-wires things.

“It steals books, you don’t get many old-fashioned ghosts doing that.”

Dennis has tried to confront the presence: “It’s evil; I’ve stood there and threatened it to come out, I’ve said: ‘We’re not frightened, come out now’.”

The Holmans were so concerned they contacted Pembroke Dock police to no avail.

“We said we’ve things in our house that won’t let us alone and keep stealing things,” said Dennis, adding: “We just can’t afford to live there anymore.

“He went for his superior, but said they can’t do anything about it.”

Things have taken an even more sinister turn recently, with the discovery of wood saws in a kitchen cabinet.

“You can’t leave things like that laying about; what’s it going to do with the saws?

“The house is in chaos now, it really wants a bulldozer; we’re talking about selling it off for auction or getting a bulldozer in. We don’t feel safe here, our living room is absolutely loaded with odds and sods and filth.

“The utility room and the front room are the worst.”

Dennis stressed: “We’re not doing it for any money at all, we are just doing it for help. I would like to achieve somebody believing us for a start, and giving us some help. It isn’t that easy just to get up and go.

“We’ve just had enough, we’ve got to get out, we’d even move in to a shed; it’s that bad; you get to fear for your life. It’s almost had the run of the house; I wouldn’t mind if it was a good guest, but it’s really, really evil.”

PICTURES: Martin Cavaney.