Shaking house remains a mystery decades later
WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — Sixty-eight years later, the story sounds like something out of "Poltergeist."
On May 11, 1950, a thousand people jammed traffic outside 14 Douglas St. to see the three-family house shake, its windows rattle, walls crack and ceiling plaster crumble.
Strange rumblings accompanied by a heavy pounding noise had rattled the house at intervals every spring for three years, the Worcester Telegram reported at the time.
No cause could be found for the mysterious phenomenon, which affected no other house on the street.
"Shaking House a Mystery and Headache to Tenants," read the headline on the front-page story in the Worcester Telegram on May 13, 1950.