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Banshee....
Submitted by "R.L."
Hailing from: Kent WA
Where it happened: Scotland
Posted on: 2/7/05
This story didn't happen to me but an old lady that I trust with all my heart to be telling the truth. It happened late at night in Scotland back when she was a young girl.
She lived on a large tract of land and out in her front lawn was a large weeping willow tree, strange things had always happened around that tree for some reason, some nights black figures would circle the tree wailing into the night but her family never did anything about it because as long as no wrong came from it they didn't really see any sense in tampering with it.
Her
story takes place up in her room on the top floor of their two story house, she
was laying down
in her bedroom trying to fall asleep, she was facing her window with her eyes
closed when she heard a noise that made her open her eyes and when she did what
she saw horrified her. staring at her through the window was a battered old hag
with luminescent blue eyes, rotten teeth, flowing grey
matted hair, and a wrinkled grey face. as soon as the lady outside her window
saw my friend, now pressed up against the wall, wide eyed and terrified, it let
out a horrible scream that she could only liken to "the sound of a train
de-railing." all of a sudden the old woman started slashing at the window frame,
scratching and screaming the entire time, this went on for only a few moments
until the woman vanished as suddenly as she appeared, her father rushed into the
room to find her still
screaming and huddled in the corner.
The next day he took a ladder and climbed up to her window intending to show her that it was just a dream, when he reached the top he found deep claw marks around the window frame. They moved from that home two weeks later and never came back.
Sounds like a
visit from a banshee. Did your friend say if there was any death after the
visit from the old hag? Interesting to say the least!
Simon Sees....
Submitted by
"Wendy Taylor"
Hailing from: Manchester England
Where it happened: Lancashire England
Posted on: 2/7/05
In
around June 1990 myself and my sister, Penny, were staying with a friend called
John in Barnoldswick, Lancashire. He came to collect us at the coach station on
the Friday night and took us
back to his mother's house, a large three story Victorian terrace.
After a hearty meal prepared by his mother, we went out to meet his friends.
After an evening in the local pubs we went back to the house at about midnight.
We had a cup of coffee and sat chatting downstairs until about 1:00 a.m.
We were given the choice of sleeping on the second floor or in the attic room.
Penny wanted to sleep on the second floor so I opted for the attic room. It had
no window in it, just a skylight. By this time it was pitch black and so when
the light was switched off there was no light in the room whatsoever. You could
not see your hand in front of you.
I was very tired and feel asleep almost immediately. All of a sudden I remember
waking up. It was not like when you normally wake up and feel a bit groggy. I
was wide awake (I found this strange in itself as I am bog-eyed when I first
wake up).
I was sleeping on my side (as I normally do) and had my head resting on my left
arm. I looked up and saw a young lad bent over the bed staring at me. He was not
glowing but was like a chalky white image. I was so startled that I jumped back
and banged my head on the wall. I did not know whether to make a run for the
door or stay where I was. I decided to stay where I was. After a few moments the
figure faded away.
The next morning Penny asked me how I had slept. I remember saying to her there
was a young lad in my room last night. I remember her laughing and saying
“you should have sent him down to me. I told her what had happened and
made her promise not to say anything to anyone.
The Saturday night passed without event. On the Sunday John's mum took us in the
back room and was showing us some family photographs. There was a photo of
all her children together. Penny pointed to one and asked who it was. John
explained that it was his brother, Simon. Penny asked where he lived as John had
never mentioned him before. John explained that his brother was dead. He got
killed on his 17th birthday in a motorcycle accident. His parents had got him a
motorbike for his birthday. He took a corner too wide and was hit by a truck
coming in the opposite direction. He was killed instantly.
The impression I got of the figure in the attic room was of a lad in his late
teens. I knew nothing of John's dead brother at that time and can only assume it
was Simon that I saw.
The strange thing was that when Simon was killed they were living in a farmhouse
and not at their present address. However, they do say that ghosts can move with
the living.
Psychics believe that people who suffer sudden or violent deaths sometimes do
not believe or know they are dead and therefore do not make the transition to
the other side. Sometimes they do not want to leave due to unfinished business
and resist passing over.
I can confirm that the above is completely true. The reason I remember
everything in so much detail is because I wrote it all down as soon as I
returned home.
I think I must be a bit "sensitive". I used to live in a flat which had a
presence and I've had three premonitions. My friend thinks it may be because my
Great Grandmother was a North American Indian!
Sounds like it could have been the boy Simon checking out his female visitor, OR it could have been some "as of yet" un-identified spirit who passed away while living at that present address! Ask around in the neighborhood, you may be surprised at what you "dig up"...
Trailer Talkin'....
Submitted by "Donna
West."
Hailing from: Grindstone PA
Where it happened: Smock PA
Posted on: 2/7/05
This story isn't one of my favorites but I will submit more. I lived in a trailer in 1997, I was newly married (about 1 year) and this was the only encounter I ever had at this residence.
I was in
our hallway between the bathroom and the bedroom (my hubby's & mine) and I was
folding
towels to put in the cupboard. My husband was asleep but in the next room with
the door shut. The house was quiet and I was the only person awake. I
heard my husband talking to someone in the bedroom but I knew he was alone and
thought he was talking in his sleep as usual and kind of laughed it off! He
continued to amuse himself this way for a few minutes and then I
seen the doorknob to the bedroom door turn and really thought nothing of it
because I figured it was him. This door also you should know always stuck, and
was very hard to open especially in the summer, which this was summertime.
But, it opened and I fully expected to see my husband standing there and I waited but he never came out! About now, my hair is standing on end and I yelled for him. No answer! I ran into the bedroom and turned on the light and there he was asleep!!! I woke him up and told him what happened and asked him if he remembered "who" he was talking to and he said no! There was never any more ghostly incidents in this house, but it certainly was worth telling I thought.
I wonder
who was trying to communicate with him from the other side? Also at this time,
he had an
uncle who was very close to him pass away. So I don't know if this had any
significance or not. What do you think? I will be back I'm sure to tell many
more of my encounters, until then, God Bless!
Could have been a visiting shade, the deceased uncle, or simple sleep walking... What say you dearest readers? The Forum is OPEN...
Family Tradition....
Submitted by
"Tiffany B."
Hailing from: Hudson FL
Where it happened: Maine
Posted on: 2/7/05
My
husband and his Mother have had quite a few strange experiences that I can't
find any explanation for. The first one I will tell you happened to my
Mother-in-law when she was a little girl and it scares me to even think about
it.
When she was about 7 or 8 years old they lived kind of out in the country (not
hard to find in Maine!) And she was out in a field playing by herself. It was
wide open with a few trees. Anyway, she thought that she heard footsteps behind
her so she looked back and there was no one there.
Then she
heard someone tell her to run, run as fast as she could. So she took off
like a bat out of hell and the footsteps turned into the sound of an animal
running. She looked back as much as she could (she was running fast and didn't
want to trip like in all of the horror movies) but there was
nothing at all behind her. But by the sounds she could tell it was catching up
to her.
She was coming up to a tree and her first instinct was to climb as high up in the tree to get away from this "animal". So when she got up far enough to where she felt safe. She sat and listened. She heard the sounds circling around the tree but still couldn't see it. It circled the tree a few times and then all she heard was silence.
Scared
that whatever it was down there was waiting for her she waited about 10 minutes
and
cautiously climbed down and booked it home. She still to this day doesn't know
what it was that chased her, or who told her to run.
The things that happened to my Husband aren't scary, but they would have freaked
me out something awful if they had happened to me.
When he
was 8 years old, they finally got a warm spring day after an harsh winter. So he
decided to go out side and play. They lived right in town so there was no place
to go exploring and things that little boys do. So he sat on the sidewalk to
play G.I. Joes. As he was doing so he looked up
a bit and something caught his eye. He looked all the way up above the church
across the street and up in the clouds was what he called "a gold castle".
He said
it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. It wasn't the type of castle
that you see in England or Ireland. But more like the one from the wizard of oz,
only much more stunning. He sat and stared in awe for about 30 seconds, and then
it disappeared. He still talks about it and say that he remembers it like it
happened yesterday. He believes that he saw heaven that day when he was a little
boy.
And the last thing happened in October when my husband was 19 years old, and he
had a friend named "Mike" (I changed his name out of respect for his family). He
used to come over and hang out with my husband all the time. But on one
particular day something seemed different, my husband had a weird feeling when
Mike showed up. He knew something was wrong but he couldn't put his finger on
it. So as they were sitting on the couch watching TV my husband looked over at
Mike and he saw a blue glowing light around him.
My husband got really freaked out but he didn't say anything to Mike because he thought that he might think he was nuts. So they went on with their normal routine of talking and playing video games. It was getting late and Mike decided to go home. That was the last time that my husband ever saw his friend again. A couple days later Mike disappeared. They searched for months and months, and in February when everything started to thaw they found Mike's body in a river. He had been there since he disappeared. They never found out what happened to him even though foul play was suspected.
My
husband thinks that he had seen that light around him because he was going to
die. I told my husband that if he ever sees a light around me to lock me in a
padded room somewhere! Hope you enjoyed these stories. I love reading all of the
stories on this site!!
Thank you for the multiple story Tiffany! It sounds as if your husband and his mother both have some type of psychic ability or second site. The final story about "Mike" is very interesting. I have heard of instances where people can detect "auras", perhaps this is what your husband saw. I will keep my eye out for information on this phenomenon and post anything I find here on the site or send it out to the Barrens Google Group (the subscription box is on the front page of this website)...
Chairs....
Submitted by "Brad
Cummins"
Hailing from: Newport MN
Where it happened: My House
Posted on: 2/7/05
Do you
know those little plastic chairs well we had about 10 of those. One day we went
down to switch loads of laundry and found that the plastic chairs had been
moved. We thought the kids did it but they weren't there. So we set them
everywhere in the room corners everything and left it alone
when we went back down they were in 5 rows of 2. Pretty freaky huh?
Short but
intriguing. Try moving the chairs again and see what happens.. if anything else
happens, snap some pictures and...
let us know!
That is something worth investigating!
Where the ghosts check in....
Submitted by "Wendy
R."
Hailing from: Port Isabel TX
Where it happened: South Padre Island TX
Posted on: 2/7/05
I am a 28 year old Hispanic woman living on the U.S.-Mexico border. You can imagine how many ghost stories I've heard...But this story is mine to tell...I was working the graveyard shift at a local hotel on South Padre Island Texas. This hotel was about 60 years old. It was one of the first hotels on the island. There have been many deaths at this hotel and other employees have also had encounters, well you know there is comfort in numbers.
So I was working one night and I heard a knock at the office door. I thought it was the security guard so I went to answer it. On my way to the door the knocking grew more insistent, I grew frustrated and yelled at him something vulgar in Spanish and asked him to wait. The knocking did not stop, as I opened the office door ready to yell at someone for getting me up, the knocking stopped and I stepped into the lobby and no one was there.
You see it would be humanly impossible to get from the office door to the lobby door that quick. So I went back to the office and tried to get it out of my head. As I was doing my paperwork later that night, I felt an eerie feeling go over me, Suddenly the door to the bathroom flies open with such force that the knob made a hole in the wall. Well I decided I had had enough, I grabbed my keys, books, and purse and prepared to leave.
Walking
through the back office I looked at the secretary's desk and all her supplies
that were laid out neatly on her desk just moments before when I had gone to
answer the mysterious knock
were all on the floor, the exact same way they were on her desk, only they were
on the floor!!! I screamed, opened the door and started to run towards the front
door, as I am running I heard noises coming from the empty ballroom upstairs
like things being knocked about.
Well, I
locked the door to the lobby, met the guard at the guard shack, left him the
keys, and
told him I would not be back. I want you to know that as I am writing
this I feel chills and my upper body is very very warm and my lower body is very
very cold. I feel very eerie and am constantly looking over my shoulder.
Any way,
the next day the owner calls me and asks what happened, I told him and he said
he expected it, and understood if I didn't want to come back as it had
happened before with people working the night shift. Needless to say the
owner died on that property not a year after that and my
friend still works there in the afternoon because the lobby is closed after
10pm.
Security
guards swear they see the late owner walking through the darkened lobby when it
should be empty. Shortly after I quit I contacted a paranormal investigative
society. I later found out that about 99% of the people working there had a
paranormal experience of some kind. The owner
told me it would not be good for business...
That is an interesting story which begs for a follow up... Please send us the name & location of the hotel (we will keep it confidential if requested).. We would love to research it and find out just how many people have died there and how they met their fate. If anyone else has worked at this hotel or has stayed there and had a paranormal experience contact us!
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