Theyre coming to get you
As a wee nipper my older brother told me that the eery wailing noises sometimes heard at night from the dark back alleys outside were the ghosts of children from olden times wandering around and looking to grab other children to make into ghosts
And that I should never ever look out of the window because if you saw one and looked into their glowing eyes they would get you.
I spent a lot of my early childhood years never daring to look out of my bedroom window at night.
When I was about 9 I was given a torch and having then almost forgotten about the ghosts, I was shining it down into the back yard when suddenly I heard the wailing and 2 glowing eyes were caught in the torchlight .
Cue me screaming, diving under my bedcovers, crying my eyes out and fighting the scary ghosts that were trying to prise me out to drag me away.
That turned out to be my parents.
Once I'd calmed down and related my sobbing tale, they told me that there were no ghosts, the noises were cats fighting and my brother had just made it up
But what about the glowing eyes I blubbed ?
They then explained about cats eyes being reflective.
It was still a couple of years before that frisson of fear stopped whenever i heard cats wail at night
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Mon 23 Jan 2012, 23:58, Reply)