Ghost Stories

[nicki]

I've just been reading a book on Ghosts in Sussex & wondered if anyone has any good stories to tell?

I stayed at a pub in Bodmin about 10 years ago, I knew the Landlords who used to run my local. The first night I was there I got into bed (on my own I might add!) when the bed started to tremble, I thought it was my imagination at first but it carried on, the trembling got worse until the bed was visibly shaking.
I was crapping my P'J's at this point but didn't want to get out of the bed & go & get someone in the dark. After a while I got so annoyed I said out loud ' For Gods sake stop it' and the bed stopped shaking immediatley
The next day i confessed to everyone at breakfast about it, thinking they would think I was mad when they admitted they didn't want to tell me the place was haunted & an old woman was often seen wandering around. She died in the room I slept in

Spooky!

 

[budge]

ive never had a ghostly experience im afraid. Id love to say i have and yours sounds thrilling.

 

[Xena]

I don't have a ghost story that happened to me, but I can tell you one that happened to my uncle.

When he was a young lad, he went to an all boys boarding school run by priests. (my grandmother was devoutly religious and had some strange ideas about wanting him to become a priest. He later got expelled from this school for sneaking girls into his room lol, but that's another story).

Aaaanyway, one day, he was walking along the corridor, when he saw a little girl walking towards him along the corridor. She was wearing very old fashioned clothing. He thought it was strange because no females were allowed at the school, there weren't even any female teachers.

She passed him on the corridor without looking at him or anything - she just looked straight ahead and seemed totally unaware of anything around her.
So he decided to follow her.

She went through a door (I don't know if she opened the door, or went physically THROUGH the door, or if the door was open or what), and went into a room. He went straight in after her, but she had gone. Totally vanished. And there was nowhere that she could have gone - no doors leading anywhere else, and the window didn't open far enough to let anybody out. She just disappeared.

My uncle himself doesn't think it was a ghost. He thinks that....well....you know how people say that sometimes old buildings capture memories and play them back? You know, almost like a recording? He reckons it was something like that - like a replay of something that happened in the past, rather than an actual GHOST. Still, whatever it was, it was something supernatural anyway.

 

[Amanda]

I've got a few. My Grandma says I have a 'gift'!

Honestly, I could tell you loads of stories, but this is the best one though.

When I was 19 I was making a living by travelling around the country doing pub relief until they found permanent landlords. I took over a pub called The White House in Bladon, Oxfordshire. One of the regulars was called Pete, and we hit it off immediately. I knew he was divorced and lived with his teenage daughter and parents in the village. Well, one day he asked me round for coffee, so I went. His daughter Claire was there and she went to put the kettle on when I got there. We were all talking in the kitchen, and they told me to go and sit in the living room and they would bring the coffee in for me. It was an old terrace house, and decorated really old-people style. The living room was lots of chince and had a dark drop-leafed table in one corner with one of those high-backed armchairs next to it. There was an old guy sat in the chair who I presumed was Pete's dad. So I said 'Hi. Claire's just popped the kettle on, do you want a cuppa?' To which he replied 'Tell her I'll have half a cup'.

So I went to the kitchen and told Claire that her Grandad wanted half a cup of tea. Both her and Pete went white as a sheet. Grandad had been dead for 3 years!!!!! It gets better though!!!

He never ever drank a full cup of tea. He always asked for half a cup. He only ever sat in the chair next to the table as he smoked and kept his ashtray on the table. And to top it all, they showed me a photo, and it was definitely him!!!!!!!!!!! No white sheet, no floating body, he was so real that if I think about it now, I can still remember what he looked like!!!

 

[nicki]

I've got a few. My Grandma says I have a 'gift'!

Honestly, I could tell you loads of stories, but this is the best one though.

When I was 19 I was making a living by travelling around the country doing pub relief until they found permanent landlords. I took over a pub called The White House in Bladon, Oxfordshire. One of the regulars was called Pete, and we hit it off immediately. I knew he was divorced and lived with his teenage daughter and parents in the village. Well, one day he asked me round for coffee, so I went. His daughter Claire was there and she went to put the kettle on when I got there. We were all talking in the kitchen, and they told me to go and sit in the living room and they would bring the coffee in for me. It was an old terrace house, and decorated really old-people style. The living room was lots of chince and had a dark drop-leafed table in one corner with one of those high-backed armchairs next to it. There was an old guy sat in the chair who I presumed was Pete's dad. So I said 'Hi. Claire's just popped the kettle on, do you want a cuppa?' To which he replied 'Tell her I'll have half a cup'.

So I went to the kitchen and told Claire that her Grandad wanted half a cup of tea. Both her and Pete went white as a sheet. Grandad had been dead for 3 years!!!!! It gets better though!!!

He never ever drank a full cup of tea. He always asked for half a cup. He only ever sat in the chair next to the table as he smoked and kept his ashtray on the table. And to top it all, they showed me a photo, and it was definitely him!!!!!!!!!!! No white sheet, no floating body, he was so real that if I think about it now, I can still remember what he looked like!!!

I love a good ghost story. More more more

 

[x-kirsty-x]

I read Nicki and Xenas last night before bed and I was scared to go to sleep

I dunno if I believe in ghosts but when I hear stories like this it still petrifies me

I like this topic but I think I'll stick to reading it during the day lol

 

[Amanda]

I love a good ghost story. More more more

The others I have aren't as good, but they are still spooky!

When I was living in the same pub as before, I was cleaning the pipes at about 9 in the morning. The pub was really old, and had a newer extension on the side where the toilets were. There was also a door that end. The pub backs onto Blenheim Palace and is opposite Winston Churchills grave, so we always had coachloads of American tourists all wanting to use the loo! Well, as I said, this was 9 in the morning and the pub was locked, and I was alone. But as I looked up, a lady walked down through the pub, and into the toilets! I was getting really fed up with these tourists just coming in all the time, so I decided to go and tell her that we were a pub, not a public convenience. And yes, you've guessed it, there was no-one there! It was only then that I realised all the doors were still locked!!! The funny thing was that she had looked completely normal. Not a lady in a white dress or anything. She looked about 55 ish, had shortish mousey brown hair, and was wearing a normal skirt and blouse! She looked just like a tourist!!

 

[nicki]

I read Nicki and Xenas last night before bed and I was scared to go to sleep

I dunno if I believe in ghosts but when I hear stories like this it still petrifies me

I like this topic but I think I'll stick to reading it during the day lol

Sorry

You do know that if you hide under the duvet nothing can get you?

 

[Em78]

oh i love things like this!! not really anything interesting happened to me but my dh's side of the family all seem to be what i would call sensetive to it.

fil is the worst - he is very matter of fact about it all he has seen so much. their old house was quite active (even i hated being alone there) and fil had lots of occasions of seeing someone at the end of their bed or walk past the doorway when everyone was in bed etc. he also ran someone over and when he got out the car there was no one there, called the police and everything!

sister in law is the same, saw an old man in her house for a bout two weeks then got talking to a neighbour whos father had previously owned the house and found out he had died two weeks ago.

another time she was going to feed her horse with my dh and fil. she stared off across the field and then saw and felt hand grab her shoulder. she spun round and told my dh to F off (they were about 14 & 16) and saw dh and fil back at the car over 100 yards away. dh says he saw her spin round looking angry and shouting then when she saw them by the car she went very white!

we do have odd things in our house - i think its just family visiting though! we have glass coasters which make a very disctive sound when you put a mug on them. we have both heard this sound in the middle of the night. the weirdest one was dh's guitar was hanging on the wall in what is now alex's room. one day we got in from work and walked past the room and heard his guitar strum softly just once. we both stopped dead and looked at each other and said at the same time was that the guitar? there was nothing near it - no curtains or anything and we tried banging the wall to see if it made it do it and the noise was totally different.

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[Em78]

I read Nicki and Xenas last night before bed and I was scared to go to sleep

I dunno if I believe in ghosts but when I hear stories like this it still petrifies me

I like this topic but I think I'll stick to reading it during the day lol

Sorry

You do know that if you hide under the duvet nothing can get you?

havent you seen the grudge - that thing got someone from under their duvet shouldnt be allowed!!!

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[Amanda]

we do have odd things in our house - i think its just family visiting though! we have glass coasters which make a very disctive sound when you put a mug on them. we have both heard this sound in the middle of the night. the weirdest one was dh's guitar was hanging on the wall in what is now alex's room. one day we got in from work and walked past the room and heard his guitar strum softly just once. we both stopped dead and looked at each other and said at the same time was that the guitar? there was nothing near it - no curtains or anything and we tried banging the wall to see if it made it do it and the noise was totally different.

Ooooo, I like those sort Em! I had things like that happen in my old house. We had a head-high shelf that ran around the dining room end of the room, and I collected some odd bottles and put them up on the shelf. One morning, one of the bottles had moved to the bottom shelf of the unit underneath! If it had fell, it would have broke, or bounced and rolled away. There is no way it could have got there. Also, New Years Eve 1999, I woke up to find no central heating. It was bloody freezing! In that house the bathroom was downstairs, but the combi-boiler was upstairs in the spare room. I checked, and the boiler was on, and running and definitely making the noise like it should be heating everything. I said to my ex that I would have a quick shower (had one of those showers that heated the water so knew that would be okay), then set about finding how much a plumber would cost on millenium new years eve! I went downstairs and opened the bathroom door to be hit by a wall of steam! The hot tap in the sink was on full blast. It had obviously been on ages as the bathroom was so full of steam that it was condensing and dripping on the floor from the ceiling! We had an inch of water on the floor!!!!!

 

[x-kirsty-x]

Usually I sleep at the side of the bed nearest to the door but last week I was in the bathroom and the cupboard door just flew open so ever since I've made OH sleep on my side of the bed lol. Dunno why, he's softer than me

 

[mum2A&L]

Usually I sleep at the side of the bed nearest to the door but last week I was in the bathroom and the cupboard door just flew open so ever since I've made OH sleep on my side of the bed lol. Dunno why, he's softer than me

I have to sleep furthest away from the door! I also can't fall asleep unless i am facing it!


I swear the brick build shed in the garden of my old house was hanted by chickens. Found out as we where moving that the house used to be a butchers.

 

[kirlykird]

don't have a story as such but I'm sure to this day that I saw my mum the day before her funeral.

I was 13 at the time and everyone said that I wanted it so bad that I imagined it but I'm so sure still to this day that I did.

 

[nicki]

I read Nicki and Xenas last night before bed and I was scared to go to sleep

I dunno if I believe in ghosts but when I hear stories like this it still petrifies me

I like this topic but I think I'll stick to reading it during the day lol

Sorry

You do know that if you hide under the duvet nothing can get you?

havent you seen the grudge - that thing got someone from under their duvet shouldnt be allowed!!!

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Don't say things like that duvet is safe, duvet is safe, duvet is safe, duvet is safe, duvet is safe

DH and I alway joke about which side of the bed is the best to sleep on. He's nearest the windows & i'm nearest the door, he always says I will be got first so I always say not if the window monster comes in through the window!! first

A colleague once told me his story -

His mate was driving home from work at about 2 in the morning, he lives in the countryside so drives down some dark lanes. This night he saw a girl in her twenties walking down the lane, he thought she must have been out as it was the weekend & couldn't get a taxi so stopped and offered her a lift. She gratefully accepted & got in the back seat, which he thought was a bit odd but thought she must just be a bit wary. They made small talk for a while, he was looking in his rear view mirror whilst talking to her. They went round a sharp bend so he obviously looked at the road, slowed right down then looked back into his mirror and she had gone
He stopped the car and just sat there in shock. He called the police. they came out to him & searched the area & found nothing. It wasn't until later that they all found out that a girl had died in a car accident on that road & had been seen several times before Spooky!

 

[Em78]

ooh i nearly forgot the most recent one at ours.

about a month ago dh was having a wee and i was in the bedroom, i left the bedroom and went straight into the living room. the bathroom and kitchen are at the opposite end of the hall (we live in a bungalow)to our bedroom and living room.

a couple of mins later dh came into the living room and said did you just go in the kitchen, i said no i cam straight in here form the bedroom. after asking if i was sure about 10 times (men ) he said he was sure he had seen someone go past the bathroom door and into the kitchen (having a pee he would have had his back to the door and seen from the corner of his eye). he was so sure he went into the kitchen to talk to me and found i wasnt there and all the light was off.

nicki i'm sure your duvet will be safe - unless the duvet monster comes calling MWAHHH AHHH AHHHHA AHHHHH!

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[nicki]

ooh i nearly forgot the most recent one at ours.

about a month ago dh was having a wee and i was in the bedroom, i left the bedroom and went straight into the living room. the bathroom and kitchen are at the opposite end of the hall (we live in a bungalow)to our bedroom and living room.

a couple of mins later dh came into the living room and said did you just go in the kitchen, i said no i cam straight in here form the bedroom. after asking if i was sure about 10 times (men ) he said he was sure he had seen someone go past the bathroom door and into the kitchen (having a pee he would have had his back to the door and seen from the corner of his eye). he was so sure he went into the kitchen to talk to me and found i wasnt there and all the light was off.

nicki i'm sure your duvet will be safe - unless the duvet monster comes calling MWAHHH AHHH AHHHHA AHHHHH!

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You can go off people you know

 

[Em78]

dont worry - i'll protect you!

 

[fran_23]

i've had quite a few strange experiences..esp after OH's dad passed away! one night we were in bed sleeping and we both woke up because something jumped on the bed and i mean it felt as if someone had physically fallen on to our bed from high up..the cats were both sh!tting themselves in a corner..then i got up to go toilet and mirror which was leaning on the window sill (sp?) with things up against it like toothpaste etc fell down without knocking anything down and landed leaning up against the bath! i was so scared! we had been taking photos of the cats the night before that and when they came back there was a massive orb above OH's head! also one night we heard stones being thrown at the window (*this was when we had his ashes in our house because we were taking them to scotland to scatter them) we both kept looking out the window and no one was there also the security light had not been set off..when we got to scotland OH's auntie complained that she had been hearing stones thrown at her window since he passed away!

the strangest thing is when i was a baby my mum put me down to sleep im my nans bedroom, they were in the living room and they heard a big smash..they ran down to the bedroom and found glass everywhere all round the room but it wasnt on me or near me..there wasnt anything broken..no window or lightbulb and they still dont know where the glass came from!? that freaked me out when my nan told me!

 

[Em78]

thats really strange Fran.

i prefer to think its just people we have loved and lost keeping an eye on us, whenever we have odd noises in the house i blame dh's cousin who passed away 7 years ago, i always tell him its nice to hear from you but keep it down please!

we stayed in a really horrid feeling house in scotland for our honeymoon. 3 friends joined us for the second week and it was about 3 years later when i said how much i hated that house that everyone admitted they all felt the same. no one had said a thing at the time but we all agreed there was a very strong and nasty feeling in the hallway. no one ever wanted to go out there to the loo in the evening! dh even admitted he went up the stairs backwards to avoid turing his back on the hall way.

i swear there was something very odd in that place - not that we ever saw or heard anything - just a really nasty feeling. very uncomfortable. it wasnt even that it looked old and scary - it was an old bakery that had been refurbished and was really modern and light and airy.

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