There’s only TWOOOOOO George Bests
...and they both haunt my house, says Alex
I never felt frightened by it. It felt comforting and loving even ALEX BEST ON BELIEVING HER EX HAUNTS HER HOME
GEORGE Best’s ex wife Alex called in exorcists to purge her home of the spirits of two George Bests.
The former model said she felt the ghost of the footie icon haunting her since she moved into her country cottage in Surrey, England in 2014.
Alex, 50, enlisted paranormal investigators – who found a man called George Best had lived there in 1902 and his daughter Lilly drowned in a nearby well.
She said: “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.
“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.
“Then I started to feel other presences which I felt were a lot more mischievous.” Ghost hunters burned sage to rid the 200-year-old house of poltergeists.
Before the ghosts departed Alex said investigators caught Manchester United legend George on tape saying “sorry”.
She said: “Afterwards, I felt nothing – they haven’t been back.”
Alex was married to the Belfast star for nine years before they divorced in 2004. He died in November 2005 aged 59 following a lifelong battle with booze.