Author: Galee » May 12, 2009, 6:30 am
I posted my ghost experiences in a previous thread. Copied here.
In 1989 my wife and I bought a brand new detached house. Approx 3 months later my wife said she could smell pipe tabacco smoke. A very distinct smell, that was the same as her Grandad smoked in Scotland. This smell occurred about 3-4 times a year. There was no explanation as to where it came from.
Also our bedroom would occasionally be very cold. The rest of the house was warm, the radiators were hot, but the room was cold. Initially we put it down to the room being the north west corner, not getting the sun, but over a period of 4-5 years this sometimes occurred during hot summer evenings. Again, the same as the smoke, it only happened about 3-4 times a year.
At neighbourhood parties we used to joke that we had a ghost. It became quite a joke amonst our neighbours about our ghost.
Late 1994 I was asleep in bed, with my back to my wife, when someone shoved me on the shoulder. I instantly woke up and said "what" to my wife. The was no reply. About 10 seconds later there was a second, stronger shove. I sat up in bed and turned round to my wife, not very happy with being woken up. When I looked at her, she was fast asleep with her back to me. There was no way she could have shoved me and turned over in bed without me knowing. it took me a while to get back to sleep that night.
About this time our marriage started to go downhill. 3 months later we were sleeping in separate rooms. It was about this time I was woken by someone holding my big toe. I was instantly wide awake. My first thoughts were, was I having a dream, did I have cramp. I laid there for a few seconds and moved my foot and the grip released. What was strange was that the grip was hard. I was not being griped through the duvet. At no point during these events did I have a feeling of being threatened. A few weeks later my toe was held again. This time ,I didn't bother to look or worry. I just moved my foot, the grip released and I went almost straight back to sleep.
That was my last experience of anything "odd" happening to me, but my wife was to later have the most frightening experience.
It was about June 95. Things were very tense in the house with the impending divorce. One evening, about 10.00pm my wife and i were having a right old ding dong arguement. We were in the lounge, I had my back to the outside wall. My wife was facing the wall, that had a large window and patio door in it. In the middle of one of her screaming sessions her faced changed in an instance. Her eyes nearly popped out of her head and her mouth dropped open. The colour seemed to leave her face. I watched her as she stared at the window and then looked along the room to the the patio door. He first words were, "there's someone outside" I looked round and couldn't see anything. She said that this person had appeared from the right. Stopped infront of the window and turned and stared in the house, straight at her. he then continued to walk past the patio door and round the corner of the house. She described this man as old, wearing a cape, a kind of ruff round his neck and with a tall hat. He looked as though he was dressed from the 17th -18th century. I went outside and as soon as I opened the patio door the security light came on. Whoever my wife had seen outside did not trip the security light as they walked along the back of the house and round the corner.
Needless to say, the good point that came out of this was that it ending the argument.
That was the last time either of us experienced anything before we sold the house a few months later.
However, about six months later I bumped into some of our old neighbours and they told me that the new owners had been in the house for a few months before they asked if Gary and Chris had ever mentioned there being a ghost in the house?
and these poor wretches roam around the area causing havoc.
