George Best’s ex-wife has claimed this footage has ‘captured his ghost’ – which is haunting her home – after his biography suddenly moved on camera.
Alex Best, 49, who was married to the former Manchester United footballer for nine years before they divorced in 2004, says she has experienced strange goings-on since her ex-husband’s death 16 years ago.
According to her, strange events have occurred at her Surrey house including lights flickering and the TV turning on suddenly. Items disappearing and then reappearing months later.
Celebrity Help!, a TV documentary series about discovery+ television is now available. My House Is Haunted, Alex enlists the help of paranormal professionals to discover whether ‘spirits have come to visit her 200-year-old home’.
Alex was largely convinced ‘George’s spirit’ had visited her after the team showed her surveillance footage of her bookcase, in which the footballer’s authorised biography is seen shooting forward around six inches from the back of a shelf, apparently all by itself.
George Best’s ex-wife has claimed this footage has ‘captured his ghost’ (pictured) – which is haunting her home – after his biography suddenly moved on camera
Alex Best, 49, who was married to the former Manchester United footballer (pictured together) for nine years before they divorced in 2004, says she has experienced strange goings-on since her ex-husband’s death 16 years ago
Alex, pictured in the episode, describes strange happenings in her Surrey home. These include the lights flashing on and off and the TV turning on suddenly. Items disappearing and reappearing months later
‘I’m convinced spirits have come to visit my 200-year-old house,’ Alex says, reported The Mirror. ‘And now I think George could have been one of them.’
She recalls how her first bizarre encounter came following the icon’s burial on December 3, 2005, after his death aged just 59. had struggled with alcoholism for years
On the day of George’s funeral, Alex was staying at a hotel in Belfast and just as she was leaving, the shower suddenly turned on, on its own.
After being shown the footage of the moving book, a shocked Alex says: ‘I don’t thank that’s a coincidence. I’ve got so many books on that bookshelf. I’ve got books on films, antiques, all different autobiographies and yet the book that shot out was George’s.
‘That moment made me really think he could have been one of the spirits… Something like that would be typical George.’
When asked if she was surprised that her ex-husband’s ‘spirit’ apparently made his introduction this way, she says she isn’t.
Branding him a ‘cheeky monkey’, she explains that she’d assumed the spirit was a child up until this point because of the ‘mischievous’ behaviour she says she had witnessed.
George Best’s ex-wife has claimed this footage has ‘captured his ghost’ – which is haunting her home – after his biography suddenly moved on camera.
Celebrity Help! is a brand new TV documentary series that explores the topic of discovery+ television. My House Is Haunted, Alex (pictured with George in 2003) enlists the help of paranormal professionals to discover whether ‘spirits have come to visit her 200-year-old home’
Alex Best, 49, who was married to the former Manchester United footballer for nine years before they divorced in 2004, says she has experienced strange goings-on since her ex-husband’s death 16 years ago.
According to her, strange events have occurred at her Surrey house including lights flickering and the TV turning on suddenly. Items disappearing and then reappearing months later.
Celebrity Help! is a TV documentary series that explores the new television discovery+ channel. My House Is Haunted, Alex enlists the help of paranormal professionals to discover whether ‘spirits have come to visit her 200-year-old home’
Alex was largely convinced George’s spirit had visited her after the team showed her surveillance footage of her bookcase, in which the footballer’s authorised biography is seen shooting forward around six inches from the back of a shelf, apparently all by itself.
The team inform Alex that it’s highly unusual to capture ‘supernatural movements’ on camera – unless the spirit is trying to attract attention.
Alex, model turned property developer, stated on the show she has always loved her husband, in spite of the difficulties, and that it still is.
Alex (pictured with George) was largely convinced ‘George’s spirit’ had visited her after the team showed her surveillance footage of her bookcase, in which the footballer’s authorised biography is seen shooting forward around six inches from the back of a shelf, apparently all by itself
She adds that George and herself had a ‘strong faith’, with the footballer keeping a bible by the side of his bed.
Alex also admits that she hopes George isn’t one of the spirits she claims are visiting her home, as wants to think he has moved on.
She says that since her strange happenings, she had her electricity checked. The electrician didn’t give an explanation.
Appearing on the show, local historian Lorraine Spindler explains that Alex’s cottage was one part of a set of buildings known as Eyhurst Farm.
A look at the census revealed an amazing coincidence: George Best had lived in this area in 1902.
He was living with William Best’s family, who were both registered in the 1891 census.
The paranormal specialists claim that they have found two supernatural voices in an episode of the program.
From one recording, they say they hear the names ‘Alex Best’ and ‘George’ and the words ‘peace’ and ‘I’m sorry’.
Alex claims the voice apparently identified as George ‘sounded rather like him’.
Best had suffered from alcoholism that had caused his liver to be permanently damaged. He had had a transplant in 2002 at London’s Cromwell Hospital.
His gaunt appearance was not uncommon before the Sky TV cameras. He worked as a pundit, and the surgeons determined that a transplant was necessary.
He died three years later at the hospital after sustaining multiple organ failures.
Celebrity Help! You can stream My House Is Haunted starting Friday, January 21 only on discovery+