In Aberystywth......where I was a student not so many years ago, me and a friend moved into a big house that used to be a hotel/hostel sort of place. About a month after we moved in, I discovered that two years before, a man had been burnt to death in my room. Then I noticed that all the walls had chipboard screwed to them, to hide the scorch marks. And there was still lots of soot stuck in all the cracks in the window frame. One drunken night we accidentally tore my door of its hinges, and exposed old, charred door frame.
I can't say I ever felt or saw any sort of presence, rather disappointingly, but it did add a frisson of sorts to late night schmoking sessions. My housemate, however, refused to even come into my room for a couple of weeks, and swore she got weird cold shivers whenever she was in there.
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I can't say I ever felt or saw any sort of presence, rather disappointingly, but it did add a frisson of sorts to late night schmoking sessions. My housemate, however, refused to even come into my room for a couple of weeks, and swore she got weird cold shivers whenever she was in there.
I saw a fake ghost onceI was visiting some mates in my home town of Malvern, it was pretty late and I had left the pub to have a sneaky spliff (mates don't smoke). The only quietish place in the centre of the town is a little graveyard by a great big church just next to the high street. Anyway I was sat there and I saw this woman dressed in a grey victorian looking cloak walking along on the other side of the yard. Now I don't believe in ghosts but I would love to be proved wrong, so I ran over towards the figure. I shouted something like "oi ghost", and was told by the figure to piss off. It turned out to be a very real girl who was pretending to be a ghost for the benefit of some tourists at the top of the yard, so I imagine that someone somewhere has a picture of me in a graveyard shouting at a ghost. She was NOT HAPPY, I had ruined it quite spectacularly
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