Ghost Sheet Hire, Letham (2003–2026): Lent Out White Sheets With Eyeholes, Never Got Them Back
Unique Halloween business rented ghost costumes for £2 a night. Final stock count: one sheet, three eyeholes.
A bedsheet ghost, the core product of Ghost Sheet Hire. Photo: Serge Sudeikin, “Theatrical ghost costume for "Le Rossignol" MET DP804813”, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
Ghost Sheet Hire, a seasonal business run from a garage in Letham, has closed after twenty-three Halloweens.
The business hired out white bedsheets with eyeholes cut into them, for £2 a night, “for families who don’t want to cut up their own good sheets”. At its height, it had 140 ghosts in circulation.
Unfortunately, it had a returns problem. Ghosts went out on 31 October and did not come back. Some were found the following spring on washing lines across Perth, having been “absorbed into family use”.
By this year, the stock had fallen to a single sheet with three eyeholes, the third having been added by a child “for a third eye, for seeing ghosts”.
Ghost Sheet Hire is survived by a box of unclaimed deposits, and every bedding cupboard in Letham.
The real story: Perth and Kinross news (The Courier)
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