Dominic West has just told a very strange story indeed (Picture: BBC)
Dominic West just told a very calm story of that little time his house was haunted by a poltergeist. No biggy. But it gets weirder.
The Crown actor, 54, seems to be a believer in the supernatural as he just told the wildest story we’ve ever heard on The Graham Norton Show.
Alan Carr followed with an equally creepy tale, but more on that later.
Never buy a 1700s house in Hoxton, kids, because you might be in for a big surprise.
‘I had an old house in Hoxton which was 1700 or something,’ the torch-on-face tale began from Dominic, who also starred in The Wire after portraying King Charles in the Netflix hit series.
‘It was an office and it was empty for five years or something and it had a derelict thing at the back,’ he added of the doer-upper.
‘I remember thinking, when you see a ruin like that you think it’s lovely. But then you come along an ruin it,’ the actor explained to fellow sofa guests Michelle Keegan, Chatty Man Alan, and Game of Thrones star Jacob Anderson.
‘This house was a bit off,’ added Dominic. But no one was expecting what came next.
‘It had a poltergeist, it was 300 years old and next to a plague pit in Hoxton where they used to bury people 20-deep.
‘My friend was there and stuff was flying around.’
Coronation Street star Michelle asked what everyone was thinking, ‘Did you see anything there?’ to which he replied: ‘I didn’t but it always had a weird feeling to it, and I went away and his friend moved in. His friend was a vicar and the poltergeist started chucking stuff around.’
So, naturally Dominic set about staging an exorcism. As you do. He explained all this very calmly, as the Game Of Thrones actor pointed out, to laughter from the audience.
‘So I then looked into exorcising it. Anyway, it all worked out. It’s still there. I didn’t tell the guy who bought it off me. Hopefully he’s not watching,’ he joked.
‘I looked into exorcism, and it’s a real thing. It’s quite the process and you have to look into the history of the whole house and work out who might be the unsettled spirit.
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