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From: "Libby" (Elizabeth.Bott@btinternet.com)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.ghost-stories
Subject: Haunted Telephone Exchange LONG STORY
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:04:42 -0000
This is one of two stories. Its something that happened to my dads and his work colleagues. Its true.
This takes place in England. Im not a good story teller but I will try my best.
My Dad works for British Telecom as an engineer. Occasionally he and his colleagues have to work in small Telephone Exchanges which are dotted around the countryside they are usually little more that large sheds with a few rooms which hold telephone equipment that link up the the larger city telephone exchanges. There is one in particular which is haunted.
So much so that neither my dad or his colleagues will go there alone anymore. This Exchange is in a small Village called Alton near the well known Alton Towers Theme Park in Staffordshire.
This Telephone Exchange is very small. It is quite hidden in the middle of nowhere has gates and a long drive to the building it has one entrance a corridor and two rooms both rooms can only be entered from that corridor so nobody could get in any other way.
Anyway my dad has in the past been there alone at night working. He has on many instances been in one of the rooms and heard the entrance door open and shut and heard distinct footsteps walk down the corridor past the door to the room he is in and enter the door to the other room.
Knowing that nobody else was due to be working there at that time of night and in the middle of nowhere he decided to investigate who it was in case it was a vandal who might damage the valuable equipment. When he left the room and walked into the other room where he had heard someone enter he found nobody there he hunted around but found nothing, no lights on or anything. This has happened a number of times. His other colleagues have all experienced the same thing. But never any evidence that anybody had been in the building apart from themselves.
One colleague in particular had an altogether more frightening experience.
One day in broad daylight he was working in the main room with all the equipment alone. He was working away minding his own business when all of a sudden he heard all the windows behind him banging. He swiftly turned around and to his horror confronted with the sight of 15to20 medieval monks with big clubs and furious looks on there faces banging at the windows trying to get in at him. The felt the atmosphere a mood of the place change dramatically and become really electric and it seemed that the windows were wobbling. As you can imagine he was absolutely terrified. He ran up the corridor and luckily for him had parked his BT van right outside the door. He leapt in leaving all his equipment behind and drove as fast as he could down the driveway towards the entrance gates. He can remember looking in his rear view mirror and seeing monks running down the driveway after him shouting and waving sticks at him. Just as he got to the gates suddenly in front of him two more monks appeared and started running towards him with furious faces and trying to hit the car with their sticks. The strange thing is that there was one memory that he really remembers. One of the monks looked right at him through the windscreen and was a black man.
This took him by supprise because he had imagined that in the past that a black monk would have been unusual. Anyhow the next day he was so upset he went to the doctor who took one look at him and told him he was signing him off sick for 2 months because although he did not know exactly what my dads friend had seen he could tell that whatever he had seen almost frightened him to death He was a nervous wreck for months. They have since found out that theTelephone exchange is built in a remote part of the village off the beaten track and did once have a small monastery.
My dad also recalls another strange thing. He was also there one day on his own. It was lunch time so decided get some fresh air. He went up to the fields at the back of the exchange. He opened a gate and walked into a field. He says that the he experienced the strangest sensation that the atmosphere of the place had changed. He cant quite explain what it was but something did not seem right. He noticed in front of him a bunch of rabbits in the field. The moment the atmosphere changed all the rabbits suddenly looked up at him and all stood up on there back legs and started glaring at him strangely, not frightened but as if they were really angry. He got the impression that he should not have been there.. He felt so uncomfortable and nervous that he swiftly turned around and ran out of the field (Now my dad is a real sceptic and not one for running away from a bunch of bunny rabbits). Where once again the atmosphere changed and he felt at ease again. Fortunately its very rare anybody ever has to go there anymore. My dad says he would rather not go there if he can possibly help it.
Anyway I hoped you enjoyed that folks.
Elizabeth B
Porch Lucky Black Cat
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