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From: cjones2@netcomuk.co.uk
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 22:00:20 -0800
To: ghost-discuss@aurora.cdb.com
Subject: a house in Caversham, Berkshire
Hi all,
I thought it was about time you all had a little ghost story to read.
When my girlfriends' mum(Jean) was a young girl, during the 1940's, her parents wanted to move into a bigger house. After sorting through various properties, they visited a few that they had short listed. One of the last ones was located in Caversham which is near Reading in Berkshire, England.
The House was a large town house with a cellar, and it was a rainy, dull day when they went to see it. When they went to see what the house was like, Nanny said that there was lots of banging and sawing noises going on in the house. Because they didn't want to disturb the workers that must of been in the house, they quickly looked around the ground floor and decided to return to the landlord. They said that they would take the house but how long would it be before the workman, that they had heard upstairs, had finished the work he was doing ? The landlord told them that he didn't have anybody working in the house.
When they moved into the house, the father went into the attic/bedroom only to find that every single nail had been pulled up from the floor- boards and all to exactly the same height all across the floor. He eventually hammered them all back down only to find a few days later they had all been pulled up as before. As well as this, They used to hear footsteps across the top landing and the sound of a metal bucket clanking against the wall as it went. Lights used to turned on and off at random all over the house. Jean once felt something brush past her on the stairs.
The most bizarre incident was one christmas. They had a lodger staying with them but had gone away for christmas. The parents tucked in their six children into bed after a busy christmas day and returned downstairs. When the father went into the front room he saw that all the decorations had been taken down and had gone. Thinking that the mother had done it he called to her saying that she had done that quick. She denied that she had done this and then they both searched the house. They found all the trimmings and balloons were tucked under the lodgers bed in his room.
Hope you enjoyed this.
Carl!