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Originally Posted by angus58

Lucky Jenny! and Lol at Olive, her hopeful mum!


I've had a few inexplicable things happen to me in my life, but the creepiest has to be not long after my youngest brother left to flat share with a friend, and I was living alone in the family home (my dad having died there six months earlier). A couple of nights after he had moved out, I was in bed fast asleep when I was woken by the loud slamming of the front door (which I had double locked from the inside), and then heard footsteps along the corridor which stopped outside my bedroom door. Being the coward that I am, I pulled the blanket up over my head and almost stopped breathing altogether in the vain hope that whoever it was would go away. But I heard my bedroom door being pushed open and footsteps approach my bed - I swear I almost had a heart attack. At any second I thought whoever it was would pull the blanket off me and do god knows what! It was freezing cold, but I was too terrified to even shiver.

For what seemed an eternity, but was probably only a minute or two, I lay rigid under the blanket, afraid to move, and barely breathing - I could sense someone standing by my bed, then just as suddenly the sensation lifted and I just knew I was alone. True enough, when I plucked up the courage to peer over the blanket the room was empty and when I went into the hallway, the front door was still locked and bolted, and there were no windows open anywhere. I slept with a light on for months afterwards but my midnight visitor didn't pay me another visit thank goodness.

For about a year after this incident I kept finding pools of water in unlikely places, like the inside of a drawer, in a bookcase, and once inside my hi fi unit. Once I had hung a dress up ready to wear to work in the morning and when I woke up it was dripping wet. The water incidents were witnessed by others, and were totally inexplicable. I subsequently found out that water is supposedly a manifestation of spirit activity which did little to reassure me that the place was not haunted. I eventually moved out not longer after.

Could you move during the experience if you had wanted to though? I sometimes get into that half dream/awake state where I'm basically paralysed but aware of things, you know? What's that called again? And sometimes my mind and ears play tricks on me... hasn't happened that often but it's fairly weird when it does.