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When i was 11 i went on a school trip with school. We went to Warwick castle and all arranged to go in the ghost tower. As we were going round i felt somebody breathe on my neck i looked round but there was nothing there. After that, outside the tower something tripped me over. i was soooooo scared!! since then i never ever ever went on a trip like that.
Stacey

When i was about 10 my mum and my brother lived in this very old church when i was watching t.v i saw in the corner of my eyes this object move i looked around with a jump but nothing was there so i thought nothing of it the next day when i came home from school i was walking down to my bedroom when this little boy in a sailor suit appeared in front of me he walked down towards the back door and thats all i ever saw of him.
Dana


When I was very young I started to see things in my room.  I remember waking up every night and seeing an old gentleman in my room just walking around my bed.  I was always so scared of him I would scream and scream but it was like I was never screaming loud enough or no one could hear me.  This went on for years.  I eventually learned to ignore it.

Any way when I was about 15 (still in the same house) I was going up the stairs and when I looked up I came face to face with him, he totally took me by surprise and I jumped right back down the stairs.  I used to think I was going crazy.  But then one day totally out of the blue my friend called for me.  I was standing at the top of the stairs and told her to come on in. When she came in I saw her looking over my shoulder.  But thought nothing of it.  A couple of days later she told me she had seen a man standing behind me.

That was the last time I saw him in that house.  We moved and I was going through a very bad time in my life I was about 20 years old and I was asleep in my new room.  I woke up all of a sudden and my bed was by the window and all the street lamps were lit.  I felt as though I was paralyzed in my bed and couldn't talk or speak or move a muscle.  There sitting on the bed looking right at me was the man I hadn't seen in years.  I finally just closed my eyes as that was all I could do.  And then I felt the presence leave the room and I was able to move.  That was the last time I saw the man.  Even though I have a feeling it is my grandfather he died when I was six months old and he only saw me once I was his first granddaughter.
Ashley

There is a few ghosts in my house! There is a boy who likes football and his girlfriend wich i saw them first when i was just 5 years old! There is also a little girl wich my mom brother and i saw! Then there was the little black boy! My sister saw him! She also saw a little girl but she dosent like to talk about it. Are house was built on corn feilds. Are house was suposably built on a farm! But we still dont know why they came here! I havent seen the ghosts in mabey about 3 years cause i am 10 years old now! I would love to hear why they were here!
Ashley Wyller


One day me and my friends were in my house when my mom wasn't home. we turned on the radio and we were just chillin, untill a door slamed in the hall way. i  walked into the hall way to see what it was and i saw a 7 foot lady in a black dress tring to grabme. i ran out of my house with all of my friends but  i forgot to turn off my radio. after a while i finnaly got the coarage to go back in my house. when i did  i noticed that my radio was OFF! all of asoden  the fire alarm went off and i saw the same 7 foot tall lady in a black dress go right passed me, all the hairs on my neck were standing straight up and i felt a cold chill rushdown my body. i ran out of my house and didn't come back for 2 days

alyssa ward 

When my sister went round our dads mums house she needed to go to the toilet she looked up and saw a blob of colours and huge eyes!

Sarah Maldon

When I was about 14, and friend and me were walking towards the woods that run along the side of my house.  The house is built deep in the forest of North Carolina.  As we entered the begining of the woods I felt a strong push which knocked me to the groung.  I jumped up ready to give my friend a good one in the face.  Just as I turned around, a huge 400 or more pound pine tree branch fell exactly where I was standing.  Had my friend not been there I would have probably been killed.  So I thanked him and we continued on.  We soon arrived at a swamp that was about a half mile into the dense woods.  My friend ventured on away from me and I heard a loud scream.  I looked up and I saw my friend running towards me hollaring "Run, Run!!!"  I looked beyond him to see what he was running from and across the swamp I saw a large 3-dimensional shadow like creature or being standing about 7 ft tall.  I took off runing behind me friend.  When we exited the woods we remembered the tree branch falling.  Whatever it was didnt want us in those woods.  The being, ghost, creature, spirit, whatever it was has been seen four times since then around my house by three different people.  To this day I'm not sure what it was that I saw that day.  I found a picture of my great grandfather fishing at the outer banks one day and all you could see of him was a black outlineing because of the way the sun was shining.  He was real tall.  But if it was him why would he be trying to hurt me?  To this day, I've never been back into those woods.

Joshua Leviner

My great Grandma and Grandad made shoes look new, (that was their job) unfortunately they both died in a car crash. Their shop got sold to a women called Mrs Greenfield who converted the shop into a house. The weirdest thing is that in the hall Mrs Greenfield's shoes were always clean and neat. She thought this was too spooky and moved out. 10 years later my family moved in and nothing happened to our shoes. My Grandad and Grandma have rested in peace now their family have moved in they feel comfortable because they trust us now.
Jessica,15,Yorkshire.


About 6 years ago when we were on holiday in Malta, One of our friends told us about these old Dungeons which were supposed to be haunted. the story was about a woman who was going to be married that day but her husband was arrested for something. He was hung in the Dungeon in his wedding suit. When his soon-to-be wife heard the news she threw her self off the bridge outside the Dungeon and drowned in the moat. On the anniversary of her death a tourist was taking pictures (the moat has dried up and is now replaced by a forest) and took a picture of the forest and when it was developed there was something that had not showed up when he was just looking through the camera. On the developed photo, Clearly visible was a woman in a white wedding gown chained to a tree, We went to check it out the next day but found nothing. there was a couple of plastic bags but nothing that looked like a person. there was also an odd feeling at one end of the bridge, Kind of like cold air. The lady in white has never been caught on camera again but it feels like something is there 

Anon

Two years ago I had a very spooky experience. It started with a nightmare: I saw myself( I thought) running thrue a field with thousand of angry people running after me. They had fire with them and their faces were wild, full of hate, some of them scared. they were shouting at me, but I could not hear them. I saw myself run and run, while I was crying. I was very afraid. It was a horrible nightmare. and then suddenly the sun rose, and I woke up. This continued for about a week. then one day my grandfather calls me. He has something interesting to show me... so I go to him. Hi has looked in my great grandfathers things, because his garage needed to be cleaned up. He shows me and old foto album, with old pictures. some of them were missing, others broken. One special picture got my very attention. on the picture there was a young woman, only a bit older than me.  With her long dark hair, and the green eyes. Granddad told me that she must have been, his grandmother. The picture was very old. the left corner of the picture was missing. but I could still see her face. My face. Now don't tell me that isn't spooky!  the nightmares just stopped after I had seen the picture. I still don't understand. My grandfather gave me the picture, said I could do with it what ever I wanted. I kept it for a While. but then on a holiday I stood on a ferry with the picture in my hand. Trying to figure out what kind of people she was. and what happend to her. It was very early, the sun was rising. And then the wind took the picture out of my hands. I didn't do nothing but starring at it. it fell down on the waves and dissapered as the ferry moved away. Sometimes i'm lying in my bed, half a sleep, and half awake. And right before I fall into deep sleep I can sense her, whoever she is.

Sophie

Well i lived in this house when i was really young i was woken up at this time ever night and after 3/4 months i got really scared bc there was something walking around in me room and it stop and looked right at me and stared at me I WAS SO FRIGHTENED 
Alison


My grandma lived with us (me, my dad, my sister, and my mum). Every night she put the chairs on the table so we didn’t trip if we needed to use the toilet. My grandma died and we sold the house. We moved out. 2 weeks later we got a call and the lady who moved in to our house said every morning when we get ready to have breakfast the chairs are on the table.
Patrick


My grandma died the day before her house burnt down I went to the wrecked house to see if there were any remains. I saw my grandma standing in the middle of the house. I ran to hug her when I grasped her my arms went straight through her a tried over and over, then I just gave up.
Patrick

This is a true story, whether they be ghosts or a timeslip or not I do not know.

I lived in Oakfields Way, Catherine-De-Barnes,Solihull. I know Solihull very well and this incident occurred when I was about twenty-three years old, a short while before I left for overseas.

In 1973 I was walking the dog 'Maggie' (named pre-Thatcher and nothing to do with her). I walked down to the canal at Catney Bridge near the Boat Inn and then back along the path towards Lugtrout Lane/Birmingham rather than the Hay Lane/Stratford direction. There was a way up to the fields from there, the other side of the canal to Lugtrout. At the top of the path a farming meadow swept down from a house at the top of the rise and the other side from the canal dip was bordered by "Gallagher's Wood", as I knew it. Owned by J.J. Gallagher, these acres have probably been built on now. But they were old woods, old fenced, lots of silver birch but a real mix of oak and ash and undergrowth. There were paths through to Damson Lane, I'm sure.

It was a late summer's afternoon, early September, warm, clear and bright. As you hear about ghosts they arrive unexpected, but they are never quite as you imagine. As I crossed the field and neared the fence, just beyond, within the edge of the wood was a small coterie of three people deeply involved in animated discussion. Clear and sharp to my eye, as I could illustrate them even now, they were all dressed in medieval garb, in green leggings one of them and a reddish arm shirt as well as drab colours. In the flick of an eye (I didn't turn my head) they were gone and though I crossed to the place with intrigue, rather than fear, I could not find a trace.

I never saw them again, I went back several times and was never afraid to walk the dog there. Whether or not these are ghosts, for your interest, this is what I saw - sharp and definite. I am also convinced that these were authentic figures, not a contemporary group dressing-up and playing 'Plantagenets' as is the wont of some, I know.
Dave Cubby
Dave Cubby, who has supplied you with the recollection of the ghosts was a good childhood friend.
I am now living in Australia and would like to make contact. Blair Williams



 

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