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Many years ago we went with four friends for a yachting holiday on the Norfolk Broads in England - a vast series of waterways
and rivers in lovely open countryside. One night we moored at a desolate spot on a quiet, still and very dark night.
I guess we did finally get to sleep that night, but very apprehensive. The next morning we found that the married couple in the
forepeak (he the most stable disbeliever of all of us) had slept through the entire experience. None the less, the three of us (and
maybe the fourth single man) were considerably bewildered, just couldn't understand what had happened.
We went up on to the bank and conducted a very thorough search of the surroundings and river nearby and could find no trace
of any clue that would explain the occurrence. The yacht was a very large vessel, sleeping six people, a heavy Broads yacht,
and its sudden crash against the side of the bank would have required a considerable force.
We never found an explanation. But we did discover that the Norforlk Broads - a beautiful area in the East of England - has
stories of hauntings by Roman soldiers (the whole of East Anglia has more than its fair share of Roman history/occupation). It
is indeed alleged that Roman soldiers haunt the Broads.
We did return for another holiday the following year, but it was uneventful and a lovely time had by all.
Since then, a close friend of my older brother, Professor Derek Price, moved from England to Princeton University. His
subject was physics and mathematics. He was the coolest, most rational, scientific, logical thinker I have ever known.
Completely unflappable. He experienced a serious heart attack and was operated on in the States. He later recounted that
during this he had a Near Death Experience, floating out of his body up to the ceiling and looking down on to the operating
table where his body was being attended by surgeons. He described things in the room that he could not have seen from the
prone position of his body on the bed. I never received from him an attempted explanation for this, but it made an indelible
impression on him.
My wife and I own a beautiful Old Vicarage in Suffolk, part 14th century with church and churchyard next door (no longer
used for burials). Situated in a very quiet cluster of three lovely country houses and almshouses. The house has oak beams, an
incredible history, the home of vicars over many centuries. But surprisingly, we always feel very comfortable there, it is not
eerie but a warm and friendly house. Even when I have gone round the grounds in pitch darkness, walking alongside the
churchyard with the gravestones just visible beyond our boundary, I have never been frightened (although the sort susceptible
to that) - it all just seems very beautiful, peaceful, with very natural surroundings of mature trees etc. Odd really. The house
has its own personality, which is a happy one. Perhaps all those vicars helped. And maybe the 37 yew trees that my wife has
counted in our ground (along with many other kinds of trees). Yew trees are of course supposed to keep evil spirits away.
I once saw in Suffolk also a flying object (saucer?) at great height, a white disc that moved very fast, changed direction
suddenly, stopped, moved again rapidly. Quite amazing and has made me believe these things do exist.
In my childhood at the age of about 14 during the war, I more mundanely claimed (and still claim) to have found a comet visible
to the naked eye. It was quite large with the unusual characteristic of three nucleii instead of the usual one. We tried to contact
Greenwich Observatory, but as the war was in its early days they just didn't answer the telephone. The comet was observed
over three nights in my telescope, moving slowly across the constellation of Gemini. Following a letter to Greenwich
Observatory, we eventually received an uninterested reply stating no objects of this kind had been reported by anyone else and
it was probably a persisitent meteor trail - some persistence over three nights with a magnitude of about 3! So I will never
have the honour of a comet bearing my name! I'll have a word with them about this if my own spiritual passing over gets me
up there.
John Chittock
The person who sent this account, does not wish to be named.
Okay I swear that all of this is true and it is not something I talk very often about, I have only told 4 people anything about this and I really
hope I am not inviting anything back into my life by telling you.
>DT>But about 10 yrs ago I was a newly single woman and had never lived on my own before, and I had only had 1 other experience with any type
of "unexplainable" event so it was easy for me to try to explain it all away as jitters and stay in the house.
It all started when I decided to remodel the house I was renting in Columbus, Mississippi. I bought some paint the landlord and I worked out
a deal where he reimbursed me for all materials, so I got busy. I noticed that there were shadows moving out of the corner of my eye, mostly
in my room, and when I would turn my head to try to catch them I was never quite fast enough.So I told myself it was my eyes, that maybe I
was getting a migraine, but I never did.
It was an electric ball of lightning(the only way to describe it) shooting sparks at me.
The dread and the hate hung in the air I have never felt anything like it before or since and never want to.I screamed and ran down the hall,
closed the door and was on my way out of the house when my boyfriend arrived.
This next account is by Aaron.
Theres this house at the corner of my street where these two people were
murdered last summer.
Then we started going over to
the house (which was empty) and started knocking on the windows and looking
into the living room and each one said they could see someone moving around.
Then we stood at the corner just staring at the house.
So that's my story
Not long after that occurred I was vaccuming and I felt a tug on my shirt and someone
said "mom" I turned around and said "Natalie what do you want?"There was no one there. My daughter has seen her in her room when she would be sick or have a bad asthma attack. My daughter is now 17 years old. My son has seen her at night walk by his room. My son has
recently moved out, he is 20 years old now. I believe she knows I have been upset lately because of his move.
The reason I'm writing you is because a friend was over tonight using my computer writing Sylvia Browne about some trouble she was having.I started to tell her about the
experiences we have had with the little girl when all of a sudden we heard a faint knock in the next room.I felt her presents tonight. The little girls mother died about 3 years ago in a nursing home.My daughter can be in the bathroom or walking by sometimes and things will fly off
the counter. Maybe because she never had a inside bathroom? I wish I knew her name and date of death.
My daughter's name is Natalie that's why I said Her name when I felt her touch me. I would for someone that deals with spirits to contact me about
this.
Gail Daigler
This Aimee Jones account in her own words.
Hello,
Another happenned to my stepdad. A few years before he met my mum his dad
died when he was with his ex-wife. He came to live with us about four years
ago. One morning, he woke up earlier than usuall to see his dad sitting at
the end of the bed. He had a conversation with his dad about how happy he
was with my mum and his dad told him that he made a good choice to leave his
ex-wife. I heard every word of the conversation because the walls in the
house were very thin and mine was next to their room.
This story happenned to me. When I was 7 I started to go horse riding. One
day we were going out on a trek. As we left the farm the dog ran out across
the road. We called it to come back and as he crossed the road again a van
ran it over. I saw everything. I had nightmares for 5 years after that until
one night I had a dream that I went to the spot were it got ran over and I
said " I see you Bobby the dog die, I see you go to heaven." I felt that I
had to act out my dream. So I did. It's been 2 years since I had that dream
and I havn't had a nightmare since.
HAUNTED STATELY HOME IN BANGOR
This Jason Figgs account.
I am deeply curious about that haunted stately home outside Bangor, Co Down. Is the investigation still ongoing? What other experiences can you relate? I was wondering is there any chance of going with you at any point while you are investigating. I have a really good infra-red sensor on my SONY HANDYCAM with battery power of up to 5 hrs. It would be so amazing to experience manifestations of the kind outlined on your web-page.
I have been interested in the Supernatural since I was about 12 years old when I spent the night with my Dublin Scout troop in the haunted ruins of Lydican Castle, Gort, Co Galway. I experienced very strong auditory presences manifest as the sounds of screaming, fighting, doors being slammed and the vivid and chilling sensation of metal on metal. This is an experience I shall never forget and one which has spawned a deep interest in all things paranormal (especially ghosts).
There is an amazing palladian mansion called 'Woodlawn House' in Co Galway. It is one of the most terrifying places I have ever been. It has a 3 dimensional quality that is very oppressive and one feels quite trapped and alone when on the estate, which covers many acres. The previous owner, Derek Le Poer Trench shot himself in the head on the estate when he sold it in 1978. I wonder was it the spirits that drove him to it or, is it his tortured soul that wanders the ruins today.
My girlfriend and I have had a rather chilling experience here ourselves quite recently where we (while looking about inside - gilded mottled mirrors still adorn the faded walls) were chased out by the definite approaching footsteps of something quite sinister. The steps began evenly and at a normal walking pace but eventually took on the terrifying sound of running towards us faster and faster. We did not waste any time in vacating the mansion. I would love to hold a night vigil here at some point. Does it interest you?
A good friend of mine, Simon Marsden (the photographer - 'Haunted Realm', 'In Ruins', 'The Journal Of A Ghosthunter', etc.) has also expressed an interest to me of visiting the Bangor site as well as the Galway sites. Let me know what you think.
Warm regards
JASON FIGGIS
MY HAUNTED HOME.
This Jason Witts account.
Hi my name is Jason Witts.
This is where all my experiences started. In a three bedroom house in Croesycaileog, Cwmbran, South Wales I came face to face with an entity to the levels thought only possible in the movies.
I had just moved from another house on the same street (from mid terrace to end terrace) and the events started even before our belongings had been moved in. The house had been boarded up for a few years and the local council had decided that the house would now need re-plastering so the workmen set about their duties, only when trying to remove the plaster which should have been damp they found that the plaster was infact rock solid and machinery had to be used to remove it. The workmen found this very strange.
One night I awoke with the feeling of somebody sat on the bottom of my bed (note a difference to the norm of someone sitting on a persons feet or chest, a sign of feeling trapped or held back) and on later occasions I actually saw a tall man who was very tatty a seemed to have very little detail standing at the bottom of my bed.
My encounters grew more severe and I started falling in to trances until it came to the point where I started to actually leap through the air thinking I was surrounded by fire. This was the last straw and my mother spoke to the vicar who actually got permission to have the have the house exercised.
The house was exercised and we moved not long after. By the time I was six it was all over.
The strange thing is the house still seems to have a similar problem today. My sister who used to work in a betting office once noticed an address and said to the lady " I used to live in that house". The women replied " oh! There's a coincidence". My sister asked, "Did you know it used to be haunted?" The women replied "Do you mean the box bedroom? My young son says he sees a man in the night".
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This next account is was sent in by Gail.
Four to five years ago my dad had a house burnt down beside us. I live with my husband and 2 children.