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[eddieguff]

1 Mount Pleasant Avenue was haunted by a nun who got pregnant and threw herself down the stairs, and 25 Patterdale Drive was haunted by the farmer who used to own the land, and decided a shotgun cocktail was the way to end it all. Lived in the 1st one mentioned in 1969-72, and the "shadow" seemed to appear a lot-as my parents smoked and I was younger, I guessed it was cig smoke. I was too young to remember my years at Portico too much, but even my dad, a sceptic saw the bolts slide off the back door, and heard then the same manic laughter my mam said she had heard on occasion. I read an account of someone hearing a Ghost-train at the now gone Peasley Cross Station a few years before Alan Whalley wrapped up, but guess that access has been lost to us mortals now....

[Le200]

I don't even know if I've posted in this thread before but the house that I live in is haunted.

Quite a few times I've seen a young girl (8-12) come through the wall from next door, she used to sit on the small set of drawers next to my bed just staring forward.
I put a wardrobe there to block it out!
The next door neighbours have seen her too and so have their kids!

I also feel someone on the bed now and again, it usually early in the morning and it feels like someone has sat on the bottom of the bed but at other time I can feel the bed sort of bouncing.
It's a weird experience but to be honest I've had it for years and it's just the norm now.

[Thumpa lumpa]

Le2oo,

funny you should say that about the bed that happens to the wife now and again, she is wide awake and she feels pressure on her legs at the bottom of the bed,she says she is to frightened to have look, funnily enough she had it in her last house before we were together, it as only ever happened once while we have both been in bed,and I sat bolt upright but there was nothing there.She says it seems to come more if she is a bit stressed out, or worried about something.

[Le200]

I'm glad it's not just me that get it then

When I said "The bed bounces" I don't mean exorcist style, I mean like a child sat at the bottom of the bed sort of bouncing gently.
It's actually started while I've been wide awake and there nothing there that I can see

[john b]

Pandoras jewelry shop is haunted.

[shieldz77]

If any of you guys have any locations that need investigating, feel free to contact me. I'm part of the Norths leading Paranormal Group and I am St Helens born and bred. I would love to bring our group to my home town.

[headjog]

30 years ago, I lived in a house in Derbyshire that was haunted. Heavy footsteps across the ceiling (only one child at the time -a baby in a cot)Same footsteps running down the stairs (which came down into the living room) things that disappeared -only to return a couple of hours later. It played hell with my nerves,since I was on my own there a fair bit because my husband worked away a lot. At first he claimed I was losing the plot, until he started to notice that things disappeared before returning.

Shortly afterwards, I woke very early one morning, I couldn't breathe, something was pushing my face into the pillow. I forced myself out of bed & across the room- looking back at the bed-nothing there. I decided I must have had a nightmare of some sort. Then on one occasion when I was away for the weekend, Dave saw a dark cloudy shape by the chimney breast, while he was in bed, which he felt was malevolent & quote 'looking for you'(He was an industrial chemist-and not given to non-scientific waffle, but he spent two hours praying to any God he could think of until it disappeared)


We put up with it until I started hearing a voice - yes, I know, definitely a basket-case now. My cousin's wife had come to stop for the weekend (My OH was working away again) We stayed up late talking & then she went up to the loo, I started to plump the cushions & tidy up to go to bed.As she came downstairs, I heard a voice behind the sofa, which was at the bottom of the stairs, say 'Do you like it like that?' We BOTH heard the same thing & frankly, crapped ourselves, It was 1.30am.

Couple of weeks later, Dave was stuck in Ireland & had phoned to say he wouldn't be home until the following weekend. I moved the youngster into our bed room. left the landing light on, wedged the door ajar(although how that was supposed to stop 'ghosties' God only knows) I was woken by the front door banging and a voice which said 'It's alright, it's only me' (The OH was stuck in Ireland, the ferry then, left on Friday & there were no more 'til Monday!)The time was...you've guessed, 1.30am.

A friend was involved with a group of spiritual healers, way down in Cheltenham, she claimed they could remove 'spirit' from a distance, with the address & some details to work on. I put in a request, but didn't know when it would be done.

In the meantime, the parish priest called round, we were in the kitchen having a cuppa & I brought the matter up. He declared that it needed dealing with & he'd perform a 'clearing' if I wanted him to. I told him about the group, some miles away so he said he'd do it if their method didn't work & invited me to his prayer & healing group held on Wednesday nights. I told him I wasn't that pious & not really into the 'Happy clapping' sort of stuff. He didn't take offence ( he was a convert to the Catholic faith before then becoming a priest- and more open-minded than most)

Anyway, two weeks later, I suddenly felt the need to go to his prayer group, held between 7-9pm. At 8, he started a healing circle & volunteered me as needing some. At 9 I left the church, skipping down the drive. When I opened the front door, I knew something had changed, & told the old man ' It's gone', him, 'What's gone??' me, 'Whatever it was that was here- it's gone'

I asked my friend about the group, and told her I didn't need the clearing now, telling her about the prayer group, and the change in the house. She came back to me about 10 days later & informed me that the group had met & performed the clearing - on the evening I had gone to the prayer group- at 8pm! It seemed I needed to be out of the house anyway for it to succeed.

Believe it or not as you choose. I know what we experienced. I could have persuaded myself, after a while, that it was the product of an unstable mind, but for the testimonies of other people who saw & heard things during that time.

As an added point, investigating similar things over the years ( and to add to Clocker baz's comments) I suspect that repetitive hauntings, ie. the same scenario,- woman walks along the same path, appears in same place etc. are connected to the type of ground rock, building stone in place.

Any with quartz content, (granite, flint etc)I suspect, can hold information & given the right set of atmospheric conditions,can replay them, like a video tape. If you know anything about holograms & how they're stored & viewed, and the fact that modern technology, contains quartz because it stores information in an electro-magnetic way, it offers some kind of scientific possibility.

The house in Derbyshire,was over 150 years old & built out of limestone blocks,the walls were 2 foot thick, although, that doesn't cover the events there, since they were not repetitive.

Edited by headjog, 12 April 2011 - 10:50 AM.

[Phyll]

Hi Headjog, That's a great ghost story, you're so brave, I would have been scared to stay there.

[headjog]

The thing is Phyll, I spent a good deal of the time packing the baby and the cat into the car & escaping to my parents in St Helens or Mother-in-law's in Crewe, whenever Dave was away - at least every two/three weeks. It got harder when I had a part-time job & could only do a couple of days. Added to which, it's not the sort of thing you tend to broadcast, since no one wants to be thought a basket case-& in fact that was the problem- even I wondered if I was, for quite a while.
I didn't tell the two girls who babysat, in case they dumped us, until the year after we left. Then they said,'Yeah, we know, we didn't say anything to YOU in case you packed up and left & because you were on your own so much! The footsteps were the worst, because we'd both jump up & run round to the stairs and then, have to go up to check Emma was okay'

[Wiganfan]

I love reading about ghost stories, but would be scared if i ever saw one. Headjog i wouldn't have been so brave as to stay in that house for so long, your very brave.

[Phyll]

Wiganfan, Welcome to Connect. Do you originally come from St. Helens? Hope you enjoy Connect.
Yes I agree, Headjog was very brave. These are for you Headjog.

[clocker baz]

Great story headjog, I believe every word.

Edited by clocker baz, 14 April 2011 - 06:31 PM.

[SWIMMER]

Hi wiganfan welcome to connect, hope you have a great time on here. If you want to chat there is a chatroom, however, it is usually empty till the early hours of the morning. If you look on the posts talkie talkie you will see when there is anyone in for a chat. Once again welcome and have fun.

Hi hedgehog as the others have said you are indeed very brave, I would have packed my bags and left until a house blessing or something of that nature had been performed. I have a house blessing bought for me when I got married and I did the same for our son daughter in law and grandchildren.

Edited by SWIMMER, 14 April 2011 - 07:25 PM.

[Wiganfan]

Thank you Phyll, i live in St Helens. Er hello Swimmer, isn't there something you need to fess up to hehe?

[Phyll]

Hi Wiganfan, Hmmm, You live in St. Helens and your avatar is Wiganfan, maybe you need to fess up!