Not mine
But I remember being told this story a long time ago and it still creeps me out.
Ive actually got goosebumps right now.
A friend of mine related this tale late one morning at a party when there were only a few of us left and we got into telling ghost stories, as you do when its early morning and youve had a few drinkies.
When he was 11, his parents were having marital difficulties and he was sent to stay with his gran for a while.
She lived on a farm in Yorkshire, it was once part of a quite large estate and there were a lot of rundown unused buildings, including another derelict farmhouse across the courtyard that had burnt down some time in the 50's.
He said he had a great time, gran was indulgent and he had loads of places to explore and build dens in.
He had also made friends with a couple of local kids, a brother and sister, and this being the early 70's they pretty much went and did what they pleased away from all adult notice.
Then the evening came that his gran told him that his dad was coming to take him home the next day.
Although he was happy to go back home he was upset that he couldnt let his new found friends know, so asked his gran if she would tell them, told her their names and he remembered that his gran looked a bit odd, but patted him and said she would.
That night as he went to bed, he looked out the window and saw his 2 friends waving at him from the upstairs window of the burnt out farmhouse opposite.
He waved back and they smiled and then seemed to step back out of view.
When he was 16 his gran got ill with angina and he went with his parents to stay a while while they looked after her.
One night he asked about the friends he had made while staying there, were they still there etc, he'd like to meet up with them.
And his gran told him that he couldnt have known them because they died in a fire in the other farmhouse before he was born.

I dont think this was BS because the way he told us this was just too real to be a lie, he was ashen and scared.
Years later he wouldnt talk about it at all

Bloody creeps me out
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Sat 9 Apr 2011, 0:21, Reply)