From: WynShpp@aol.com
To: obiwan@ghosts.org
Subject: Please add my accounts to you Short but true ghost storys
Date: Friday, June 21, 2002 9:05 AM
Location: Indeterminate
My experiences started when in 1982 my parents had A major house renovation, knocking down walls, extensions ect.
I was 13 at the time, and my younger sister was 9, it was after the work was completed on our 19th century house the strange stuff began.
there's so many accounts of strange paranormal events which happened to myself and other members of my family, I'll try to document them as best I can.
Firstly strange shadows would loom over you as you sat in your chair, this happened all the time, things would knock over on shelves in my bedroom straight in front of me, the back door handle on many occasions would rattle as if someone was trying to enter, but no one was ever there.
My sister was only 9 at the time and she was in her bedroom alone, this was shortly when all of this started to happen, and she came running down the stairs giggling, saying she had just chucked A banana peal into the waste basket, and it hit the sides bounced off and landed on her bed, which was about three feet away from her bin, My mother & I went cold, but what can you say to A nine year old girl "there's ghosts in the house" not really, so we laughed it off with her, but it didn't take long for her to realise in the time to come something was wrong in the house.
Lights would come on and off at random, though this happened very rarely, many nights while laying in bed, the bottom would depress down as if someone was sitting on the end, this used to freak me out A lot, as once I was listening to music with the headphones on late at night and the weight at the bottom of the bed was so great the whole bottom end of the bed went down, I chucked the headphones off my head and sat up in blind fear, needless to say I never slept much that night.
Once in the early evening, at about 9pm my sister went to my bedroom to ask me something, thinking I was in, which I wasn't and she got as far as the door and all she heard was this very heavy snorty breathing coming from the other side of the door, she recalls she was so scared that for A couple of minutes she just stood there unable to move or talk for such intence fear, she managed to pull her self away and ran down to the stairs to our parents who were watching TV.
Needless to say I was really looking forward to bedtime when I got back and heard what went on earlier, I slept with the door open that night I was so scared.
On some occasions I heard myself, but my mother heard many times someone walking up the stairs in the dead of night, and it would stop once it reached the top.
A strange smell which was quite nasty sometimes lingered at the top of the stairs which I came in contact with many times so did others, in fact my partner when she used to stay with me some nights when I lived at home used to comment about this all the time, and it was only at the top of the stairs, you could walk in and out of it, and it only centred around A very small area, again not very normal.
In 1997 my cousin who's A carpenter was doing some work in the landing hallway, and strange shadows kept skirting above his head, to the point where he was so scared he refused to be up there without someone there with him.
I was writing A letter to my partner while laying on the bed and from the top of the ceiling someone whispered my name, I answered and said "yea", then realising no one responded to me I opened my door and shouted "what do you want" thinking it was someone calling me, I checked all the bedrooms, shouted downstairs but the people down there couldn't hear me, but the voice was A "airy" tone, and when I said "yea" I looked straight up to the ceiling where it come from, once I put two & two together, it gave me the creeps A little but in A strange way it wasn't scary, just strange.
The thing which has worried me is the fact that in my new house the same thing happened in the garden on summers day, and the sound seemed to come out of the brickwork, I know this doesn't make much sense, but it's the only way I can explain it.
And sometimes the house had A different feel to it, something you can't explain, but it was just there, once Cindy our little dog back in 1993 barked like mad at A spot above the under stairs cupboard, again this was witnessed by three people sitting in at A table.
So much other stuff much the same happened over the years, and I have only very basically listed separate events but the house was quite active for many years.
My father in all of this dismissed it all, and refused to admit to anything, but way back in 1970 when they first moved into the house, they had some wall units and in one of the shelves was A little brass bell which was in the shape of A horses head, quite A solid item, and on one of the first nights they slept there, laying in bed and it rang twice, my father for years denied he heard anything for fear of upsetting my mother, however after that night and for many year after, he slept with an air pistol next to the bed, so I ask you what do you think?