Spirits in My House
By Dale Preece-Kelly
Do ghosts exist? Many TV shows purport to having caught them on camera – orbs, movements, temperature fluctuations, screaming TV presenters – all sorts of proof. Well I have had a couple of experiences, that I would like to share with you.
When I was with my ex, I lived in a house, which had been built on what was once a coal mine’s railway sidings. Strange things happened. It started with the front door opening on its own. A faulty catch on the door maybe? I checked it all, and still the door would open – and it happened at the same time every time. Classic signs I’m told. Then the TV and video would come on in the middle of the night, always at around 2am. We even gave him a name – Peter! Eventually it became a bit of a joke and Peter was frequently told to “Stop!” and whenever he was asked to stop, he did.
Peter’s best trick was the time that he turned the toilet water dark blue! Yes that’s right. No toilet blocks in the house, or the cistern, and then one night after I had used the toilet I flushed it and it filled with blue water! I couldn’t believe my eyes. There was no other explanation for it, we had to be living with a spirit and he wanted us to know he was there.
I had seen shadows and movements, but never anything concrete until one day alone in the house when I witnessed Peter take shape for a very brief moment. I had been alone for an hour or two, and went upstairs to find something from a spare room. My ex’s son had dress up clothes and as I walked past the open door to his room, the clothes were in the shape of a child – about 5 feet tall and of slender build. I stopped as I saw this and as I peeked around his door, the clothes were floating to the floor. Not only did I break into goose bumps, but I left the house for a short while to regain my nerves.
Moving onto more recent times, just after I met my wife and moved in with her, our daughter – then 3 – was having sleep problems. Often in the middle of the night, we would find her on the landing hunched down making a grunting noise. She would grunt if she was moody, or feeling unwell and to start with we were concerned. We eventually concluded that she was dreaming and sleep walking, then waking on the landing and scared to find herself not in bed was grunting as she was annoyed with herself.
This happened every night, and as it went on, it became a talking point with my wife and I trying to figure out what it was all about. We looked at her room – which was always cold, in the day, at night, summer, winter, always despite having the sun most days. As it went on the grunting turned into crying, which made us even more concerned, as this was now distressing our 3 year old. And one night, whilst cradling her in my arms to calm her, she decided to talk about what was upsetting her.
“Its the lady,” she stated, “She says horrible things to me”
Chilled, I figured she had been dreaming and this was her dream. I reassured her and put her back to bed.
“She’s over there,” she whispered pointing to the corner of her room. My skin crawled!
I left her, moderately upset but happy to go to sleep – she wasn’t scared to be in her room. As I climbed into bed, I told my wife the story and of how I checked over my shoulder as I walked back to our room, as my skin was crawling and I could feel somebodies eyes boring into my back – you know that feeling you get? We still put it down to a dream and our daughter’s imagination, not wanting to believe that her sleep was being disturbed by a ghost. The following day, our 3 year old was still talking about the old lady. We smiled, but I tried the trick I had used before and asked for it to stop. For the next 3 nights, our daughter slept soundly – weird.
The fourth night though, the same thing happened again. We got the same story, but this time our daughter told us that the old lady had used a rude word. Apparently she had called our child “a little bugger”. Again I said “Stop it please” and put her back to bed. The next morning, I quizzed our little girl about the old lady, and managed to get a description out of her. She told me that the lady was old, with grey hair, but had no legs! My wife and I both looked at each other chilled, and shuddered. This had gone on too long now for it just to be a dream or a story for attention, this was spooky. I must say though, talking about it and being believed and reassured really did settle our little girl down and she became more open about it and less distressed, almost happy that the old lady had picked her!
When my wife dropped our daughter at school that morning, she told the teacher (a local woman) that our daughter may not be attentive due to lack of sleep and relayed the story. We carried on, and the next day the teacher pulled my wife aside. She had been doing some investigations – sitting in the local pub chatting to several older locals – and she had found that our house had been built on the former site of a house of rest and mortuary. The new property was built, along with a bungalow, by a local couple. They lived in our house – a two story detatched building happily for a good number of years. The woman became disabled and wheelchair bound (explaining the lady without legs!) and they moved into the bungalow. The larger property was said to be the old ladies favourite!
On hearing this my wife and I suddenly realised that our daughter had been plagued by visitations from another plain. By this time we were already looking to move to another property, thankfully. Since we moved, we have had no problems with our children waking in the middle of the night, although the 3 year old (now 4) is still the one who has the liveliest dreams – she is frequently heard shouting out in her sleep, or crying and laughing in her sleep. There is a theory though, that the middle child of three is more sensitive to the spirit world. I wonder if this is true?
We had talked about getting the old house exorcised if the visitations continued, and recently discussed the fact that the grunting our daughter did was the result of some kind of possession, but that is too scary an idea to contemplate! Think we will leave it there for now! I do believe in ghosts, having had these experiences which cannot be explained in any other way, but until we die we shall never know the truth about what happens afterwards.
Ignore the shadows and the noises of the night, your imagination will run wild, your mind delight, who knows who’s watching in the night time gloom, are you really alone, lying in your room? Sleep well!!
With best wishes for a good night’s sleep
Dale Preece-Kelly
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