Andrew Lloyd Webber had to call a priest to get a poltergeist out of his home.
The Phantom of the Opera composer explained he enlisted the help of the church to rid his 19th-century home in Belgravia, central London, of a mischievous spirit that delighted in arranging piles of paper in different areas of the house.
Asked if he had seen a ghost at any of the theatres he owns, he said he hadn’t but told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “I did have a house in Eaton Square which had a poltergeist.
”It would do things like take theatre scripts and put them in a neat pile in some obscure room. In the end, we had to get a priest to come and bless it, and it left.”
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