COULD MY MELVIN BE THE SHIPYARD GHOST?
Published on 15/05/2006 

MEMORIES: Mrs Nina Anzalone with a picture of husband Melvin

IT was 6.55pm on November 23, 1965, when a newly married wife felt
terrible pains in her neck.
The young clerk in the Vickers wages office was so ill she was sent
home.

Unknown to Nina Cartledge, now Anzalone, her husband Melvin a shipyard
electrician had died in the same instant crushed by a lift in the yard's
West Shop aged just 23.
Despite 40 years passing she never forgets that moment and talk of
ghosts in the yard has made her wonder if it could be her husband's
spirit. She has reason to be pensive.

When the BBC's North West Tonight followed up the story, cameras filmed
the shipyard from the churchyard at St Mary's on Walney. Spookily,
Melvin's grave appeared in the shot.

The BBC made no mention of Mrs Anzalone's former husband or the church
in their report.
Now she is wondering whether it was just a coincidence or something a

little more sinister.
Mrs Anzalone said: It's just a bizarre coincidence. It is spooky.
Strange. He could be poking a bit of fun at us. You just do not know.
I thought nothing about what was going on at the yard until my daughter
rang me up and said she had seen her dad's grave on TV.
I thought that is funny. There is nothing on the grave saying he died at
the yard. No one would have known.?

Last week an exorcist was brought in after workers in the Pipe Shop felt
a strange presence.
Strange happenings, including a crane jib and other machinery moving by
itself, unexplained shadows and an eerie presence, have been witnessed
by a number of workers.

Mr Cartledge was killed in 1965 after fixing a lift in the West Shop
barely five weeks into his wedding.