The following post is a fascinating account of a poltergeist-like effect encountered in a family home in the West Midlands area from around 1998 to the year 2000. We have kindly been given permission to reproduce this story here, though names and locations have been removed for the sake of total anonymity in the case concerned…..
We are most thankful to our correspondent for taking the time to share his encounters with us so fully! Much appreciated indeed!
And so…..
“For at least the first five years we had no problems living there and if there was any activity then we did not notice it. The first occurrence of strange activity was when my wife began to notice doors and wardrobes opening and closing by themselves, sometimes she would close them only to find upon returning they had been opened and sometimes vice versa. No big deal we thought, it could be a draft effect or the house shifting as a result of heavy traffic (the house is on a busy B-road) although it increased with greater regularity and aroused suspicion that something weird might be occurring.
Next, household items began to go missing, daft things like underwear, cutlery and modest jewellery, also sentimental things such as my wife's deceased grandfather's silver pen. We felt not quite right about this but tried to put it down to pragmatic reasons; we told ourselves we were being careless.
Then, one evening about 9PM my wife was watching TV in bed, I was with her in the bedroom at the time working on the computer when she shouted 'Get off me', I initially assumed she was talking in her sleep but when I turned I could see she was wide awake and kicking out her legs. She told me she had felt a hand moving over her leg on top of the duvet. Whatever it was, it had stopped when she lashed out. I tried to suggest she had imagined it but she categorically insisted it was a hand and it was running over her leg. I tried to keep things in perspective, my wife had recently had an operation and although I never said anything to her at the time I suspected she might not be quite recovered medically and may just have imagined the sensation.
I think I ought to point out that until I experienced these events I was ultra-sceptical about things going bump in the night so I was looking at practical reasons why these things were happening. My attitude began to change when I had my first exclusive experience (as opposed to things happening to and around my wife). It was the early hours of the morning and my wife and kids were asleep in bed but I was still up, again I was at the computer working when I heard a rattling sound coming from the top of the stairs. I stopped what I was doing but did not move, just listened, the rattling ceased when I stopped typing at the computer, I sensed something was seeking my attention, I decided to return to the computer to see if it occurred again and sure enough as soon as I started typing the rattling started again. I knew what the sound was, it was the stair gate at the top of the stairs being moved backward and forward against the hook that held it in place. This second time I leaped up quickly and dashed to check it out, I wanted to confront whatever was making a nuisance of itself. The rattling gate stopped before I even opened the bedroom door and upon further inspection both of my daughters were sound asleep in bed so it could not have been either of them sleep-walking or something. I returned to my computer work without further disturbance but I went to sleep that night knowing that something was with us in the house. The next day I talked it over with friends, I'll bet you know what their response was, I decided never to tell anyone again.
Over the next few months we experienced some of the things that I have seen reported at other hauntings such as strange boiled-cabbage-like smells occurring from nowhere, there would often be a rush of cool air in a otherwise still room with the windows closed, doors continued to open and close. One occasion that stands out was when I walked into the bedroom to find my wife's gold chain lying on the bed. It caught my eye immediately because my wife rarely wears any jewellery and it was lying there in a perfect circle as if someone had very delicately left it there. Nonetheless, I put it down to carelessness and put it away in her jewellery box and later told my wife she had left it on the bed, she said she had not seen that particular necklace for months....."
Part Two of this account follows shortly.....
Regards,
The W.M.G.C.
We are most thankful to our correspondent for taking the time to share his encounters with us so fully! Much appreciated indeed!
And so…..
“For at least the first five years we had no problems living there and if there was any activity then we did not notice it. The first occurrence of strange activity was when my wife began to notice doors and wardrobes opening and closing by themselves, sometimes she would close them only to find upon returning they had been opened and sometimes vice versa. No big deal we thought, it could be a draft effect or the house shifting as a result of heavy traffic (the house is on a busy B-road) although it increased with greater regularity and aroused suspicion that something weird might be occurring.
Next, household items began to go missing, daft things like underwear, cutlery and modest jewellery, also sentimental things such as my wife's deceased grandfather's silver pen. We felt not quite right about this but tried to put it down to pragmatic reasons; we told ourselves we were being careless.
Then, one evening about 9PM my wife was watching TV in bed, I was with her in the bedroom at the time working on the computer when she shouted 'Get off me', I initially assumed she was talking in her sleep but when I turned I could see she was wide awake and kicking out her legs. She told me she had felt a hand moving over her leg on top of the duvet. Whatever it was, it had stopped when she lashed out. I tried to suggest she had imagined it but she categorically insisted it was a hand and it was running over her leg. I tried to keep things in perspective, my wife had recently had an operation and although I never said anything to her at the time I suspected she might not be quite recovered medically and may just have imagined the sensation.
I think I ought to point out that until I experienced these events I was ultra-sceptical about things going bump in the night so I was looking at practical reasons why these things were happening. My attitude began to change when I had my first exclusive experience (as opposed to things happening to and around my wife). It was the early hours of the morning and my wife and kids were asleep in bed but I was still up, again I was at the computer working when I heard a rattling sound coming from the top of the stairs. I stopped what I was doing but did not move, just listened, the rattling ceased when I stopped typing at the computer, I sensed something was seeking my attention, I decided to return to the computer to see if it occurred again and sure enough as soon as I started typing the rattling started again. I knew what the sound was, it was the stair gate at the top of the stairs being moved backward and forward against the hook that held it in place. This second time I leaped up quickly and dashed to check it out, I wanted to confront whatever was making a nuisance of itself. The rattling gate stopped before I even opened the bedroom door and upon further inspection both of my daughters were sound asleep in bed so it could not have been either of them sleep-walking or something. I returned to my computer work without further disturbance but I went to sleep that night knowing that something was with us in the house. The next day I talked it over with friends, I'll bet you know what their response was, I decided never to tell anyone again.
Over the next few months we experienced some of the things that I have seen reported at other hauntings such as strange boiled-cabbage-like smells occurring from nowhere, there would often be a rush of cool air in a otherwise still room with the windows closed, doors continued to open and close. One occasion that stands out was when I walked into the bedroom to find my wife's gold chain lying on the bed. It caught my eye immediately because my wife rarely wears any jewellery and it was lying there in a perfect circle as if someone had very delicately left it there. Nonetheless, I put it down to carelessness and put it away in her jewellery box and later told my wife she had left it on the bed, she said she had not seen that particular necklace for months....."
Part Two of this account follows shortly.....
Regards,
The W.M.G.C.
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