George moved into his new flat, only to find he was sharing it with an uninvited presence - or two or more...
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| From Paranormal Brighton & Hove by Janet Cameron |
George
is convinced his Brighton flat is haunted. When he bought the flat
from an old lady twenty-five years ago, things "started to go
bump in the night." The old lady, we'll call her Miss R. was
about to go into a nursing home. She told George that the flat would
be no good for him and was most unwelcoming. The flat was in a poor
state of repair, and Miss R. said that a builder should buy it. She
emphasised it would be a big mistake if George bought it. She was an
unfriendly person.
Odd
Things Start to Happen
When
George eventually moved into the flat and started to do repairs and
redecorations, things started to happen. He moved into the bedroom
and experienced loud knocking on the wall in the corner of the room.
This knocking started at 10pm and continued all night until next
morning, preventing George from getting a good night's sleep. He
contacted the Council to see if they could assist and also the
neighbours, but without success. It's well-known that ghosts do not
like alterations to "their" homes. Friends came to visit
and they, too, heard the knocking. It was obviously not pipes or a
washing machine, as no washing machine would operate all night, every
night.
This
went on for about two years and then stopped. One day, a friend who
was psychic, came to stay, and he was alarmed, saying he could hear
deep breathing. The flat felt as if there was a curse on it, as so
many things went wrong and George incurred heavy expenses. There were
also cold spots in the flat despite central heating and hot weather.
A
Sister Plays Mischievous Tricks
In
October 1999, his sister, to whom he was close, died suddenly. This
caused him much distress, and more strange things happened. Jewellery
and a pair of gloves he'd bought in Venice that Christmas
disappeared. He hunted throughout the flat and made enquiries from
friends, with no luck. At night, he felt a cool breeze on his cheek
as if he had left a window open, but he realised he hadn't. He felt
it was the spirit of his sister to reassure him that there was an
afterlife. A friend phoned and he told her about the loss of his
jewellery. She said it was probably his sister, as she'd heard of
several people who had put down items in their usual place and then
went to pick them up, only to discover they had disappeared. She told
him to call out to his sister. "Kate, have you taken my
jewellery?"
As
this was on a Saturday, about mid-day, George did what his friend
suggested and then finished the call. He went to Waitrose to do his
shopping, and returned at two o'clock to receive another phone call
from a friend, Steve, who asked why he had phoned him. He said there
was a message that was difficult to hear on his answerphone. It
sounded faint, as if it was from abroad. George explained he hadn't
phoned Steve as he'd been out at the time. Steve insisted he had, as
the phone number was recorded on his own machine. Around the same
time, George's nephew also had strange messages on his answerphone
from a female. One of his friends had phoned him, and a woman's voice
said he was not at home. Could this, thought George, be his sister
getting up to mishcievous tricks, this time targeting the nephew?
On
George's birthday in July the following year, he was going out to
celebdrate with Steve, when for some reason he felt an urge to look
in the meter cupboard by his front door. And there were his gloves!
Yet over the previous year, he'd been to the meter cupboard and the
gloves were not there. Unfortunately, he has still not recovered his
jewellery.
Objects
Rattle and Move Around
A
few years later, George and a friend went to see a medium who was
appearing in Eastbourne. They thought it was a most interesting
evening. When George got home and sat down to watch television,
suddenly his collection of fob watches started to rattle in the
display cabinet. At first, he thought he had imagined it, but it
happened twice more. This had never occurred before. He thought it
must be his sister, Kate, trying to contact him again, and he felt
reassured.
Recently,
other weird things have happened. George had a pasta jar that was on
shelving on the kitchen wall. One day he tipped out the remains of
the spaghetti, intending to buy more from the supermarket, and then
he placed the empty jar back on the shelf. Next time he went to get
the jar to fill it, it wasn't there. He knew he hadn't broken it, and
it was too big to accidentally throw into the rubbish bin. Two weeks
passed, and he resented having to buy a new one, but eventually found
another in a charity shop. Then, some days later, he found the
original jar. It was on the other side of the kitchen in a cupboard
rarely used.
"I
definitely didn't put it there," he says. "It always went
on that top shelf on the other side of the kitchen."
George's
sister had always been quite a lively and mischievous person, and he
believes his sister is playing tricks on him just to let him know she
is still around. He says he finds it very comforting that there is
"another life" in his flat. He feels close to her children,
and he believes it is his duty to be there for them. He has a friend
who lives in Cambridge Road, who also had a brother who died. This
brother had been a difficult character in his life, "burning the
candle at both ends." Ever since his death, there has been
poltergeist activity in his flat. George's friend just calls out to
his brother to stop it.
The
friend's deceased brother has a daughter, so perhaps the spirit is
worried about her wellbeing and wants to ensure that her uncle is
looking after her.
Source:
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Verbal account from "George" of Brighton and Hove, who prefers not to be formally identified.
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