Re: Ghosts and Spooky Things
Hi Bread, I've never personally experienced seeing ghosts or ghostly things. The only two spooky episodes I can think of that I haven’t already related on previous Ghost stories on OFF, happened to my brother at the cottage they had just bought right in the heart of the countryside for them and their children aged 11 and 13.
A couple of weeks after they had signed for the empty property, they were meeting the Agent there to get the keys and take some measurements. My brother knew the Agent well as all local, so as they entered, he jokingly said to the Agent, ‘’Hope there aren’t any Ghosts you haven’t told us about?’’ To which the Agent laughed and said: ” Nah, nothing untoward, although there has been the odd rumour about a Monk being seen around the property, that is obviously a load of crap’’ (his words).
Of course, they didn’t mention a word of this to the children as they didn’t want them frightened with tales of Ghosts in the home.
The day they moved in, my 13-year old nephew’s best friend cycled up the lane to visit. When he knocked on the door my nephew invited him in and his friend said ‘’you got your priest visiting then? (Catholic) My nephew didn’t know what he was on about and just said ‘’No, why? And his friend said ‘’I thought I just saw some bloke in a Red Cloak looking out of the top window and thought it was your Priest going to the bathroom ‘’.
Needless to say, my nephew ignored the whole thing as he hadn’t been there when the Agent was supposedly jesting about a Monk being seen! But it certainly unsettled my brother and SIL for a while. They still didn’t mention anything to the kids.
Happily, he was never seen again.
The other incident was at the same cottage. My brother and SIL were going out to dinner in the evening with family members, It was a beautiful sunny day so brother decided it would be nice to sit on the back patio step to polish his shoes. He took his shoes, two cloths, a brush and tin of polish and sat down on the step. He had just started to put some polish onto his shoes with a cloth when the house phone rang. There was a party line in the kitchen right by the french door so he got up, put his shoes and the cloth on the step next to the tin of polish while he went to answer it. When he had finished with the call, he said he walked back to the step, sat down, picked up the cloth and went to pick up the tin of polish only to find the polish tin and it's lid had disappeared! He stood up and searched around for it, including lifting the cloths in case he had dropped one of them over it, but couldn’t see it anywhere. Even the lid that had been next to it was missing.
Of course, the first thing he thought was ‘’Damn, I must have carried the polish in with me’’ but he was puzzled because the phone was on the wall by the door and there was nowhere to put a polish tin down, in fact, he had been standing outside on the patio itself throughout the call.
Again, there was no sign of it indoors, as he knew it couldn’t be. So he walked back out again thinking he was going cuckoo, over to the step, only to see there on the step where he had originally left them in full view, was his tin of polish with the lid lying next to it, both exactly in the same spot. There was no chance of anyone playing a joke on him either as SIL had taken nephew swimming and weren't due back for another hour or so, and my Niece was at her Nan's.
He said he could never explain it.