‘I’m being haunted by 2 George Bests says ex – and one isn’t iconic footballer’

08/13/2022

George Best’s spooked ex-wife Alex has had to call in exorcists to purge her home of the spirits of two George Bests.

Former model Alex, 50, said she has felt the ghost of her former Manchester United icon husband haunting her from the day she moved in to her 200-year-old Surrey home in 2014.

She never got frightened of the poltergeist’s antics as she felt it was George’s ghoul playing harmless pranks on her.

But she got creeped out when she felt presences of two more “mischievous” ghouls in her country cottage.

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Paranormal investigators found a George Best had lived there in 1902 – and he had a daughter called Lilly who drowned in a nearby well – a landmark mentioned in the Doomsday Book.

Alex told the Daily Star Sunday from her ancient cottage: “This house is seriously haunted, big time. I’ve lived on my own here for years, and George’s ghost had always been here.

“I would come down and there would be really heavy pieces of furniture moved – furniture it would take three people to move.

“You would see the furniture marks on the floor when it had been moved. There were other things, like clothes going missing I knew were there.

“I would go through the drawers and there would be nothing, then they would turn up again weeks later on the top of the chest of drawers

“A belt went missing once that I’d laid out and it turned up again two weeks later.

“I felt it was George just being harmless, playing tricks and having a laugh with me – I never got frightened by it. It felt comforting and loving even.”

But she added: “Then I started to feel other presences, which I felt were a lot more mischievous. A group of investigators came last year and worked with a local historian.

“They showed me census records that revealed a George Best lived here in 1902.

“Sadly, he had a daughter who drowned in the well near me – the same well that is mentioned in the Doomsday Book.

“She is the little girl who was in the house, and she felt mischievous. She was about six when she died.”

The ghost hunters used sage burning techniques to rid the house of all three spirits.

Alex said: “Afterwards, I felt nothing – they haven’t been back.”

But before the ghosts left, Alex said investigators caught George on tape saying “Sorry”.

She added: “He could have been saying sorry for anything and to everybody.

“I was really emotional when I heard that to be honest.”

She first told last year how she felt ghosts in her home and had kept from saying anything as she knew she would be savaged by “sceptics”.

This is the first time she has opened up about the exorcism and her feeling of “relief” her George can now rest in peace.

She doubts she will ever leave the property – even though she knows it is a hotspot for hauntings and the poltergeists may return.

Alex, who has lived in the house alone for years with her six-year-old Irish setter, Finn – added: “It doesn’t bother me of their presences come back – it’s never been a horrible thing. I’ve felt really loving things in this house.”

The census records show the other George Best was born to a family who lived at Alex’s house, with him living at a now-gone cottage called Elsmore next door.

Dating back to the Doomsday book, the village of Kingswood, Surrey, where Alex says she intends to live out her days.

Alex was married to the former Manchester United footballer for nine years before they divorced in 2004. He died in xxxx aged 59 following a lifelong battle with booze.