aliEnRIK:
Crikey
Exorcist required!
Go for it Bretty, I love stuff like this
Ok. Well, the happenings in that flat seemed to open up a sensitivity within me to the ghosty stuff, because after that I became a bit of a ghost magnet (and still am, to a lesser extent).
For example, I moved back to my Old Dear's after the flat. within one week, I was having intermittent visits from a ghost. This one was fine, it wasn't threatening, it would just walk around my bed. It would start at whatever side of the bed my head was at, and then i'd hear the footsteps walk round the perimeter of the bed. No-one died in that house, so i've no clue who that was.
While I was back my mum's, her Great Dane, Natasha, died. She was beautiful. Midnight blue with a great temperament. Her and my Mum had a really tight bond. When 'Tasha got old, she got a bit incontinent, but she was always good in that she'd not go on the carpet, she'd try to make it to the kitchen, which had lino. After she died, we'd find a puddle of pee on the kitchen floor some mornings. That stopped (thankfully. That was a pain!) but she started coming back and sleeping with my Mum, in her bed, like she did when she was alive. My Mum told me one morning that she was woken up by Tasha laying on the bed, licking her hand. She did that every night for about a year. It made my old dear really happy. I saw 'Tasha once, sleeping with her and it was a beautiful thing. She was completely solid, as if still alive.
So, onto the haunted hotel.
It was called 'The Gainsborough Hotel' and it was on the seafront in Hastings. I was working down here on a contract, and approached the hotel to give me a cut price rate, as i'd be staying long term. They agreed, I moved in. My room was a single with a shower but no toilet. the toilet was out of the room and down a flight of stairs. The first night, I went to the toilet and, as I opened the door to leave, I got the most nasty feeling of being watched. It felt as if someone was standing right in front of me. It'd been 8 years since the flat and I trusted my gut by then and I just knew the place was haunted.
The next morning, at breakfast, I asked the owners outright if they had a ghost (their names escape me. It was a family run hotel: husband and Wife with their teenage boy. Really nice people). They looked a little uncomfortable, before saying 'yes'. I said I was fine with ghosts, and they told me the whole story.
The ghost was a guy called Trevor who used to live there and was a fanatical Christian, in life. They told me that he, as a ghost was extremely violent, especially towards the female owner. He had pushed her down the stairs numerous times, had hit her and scratched crucifixes into her skin. They also said that they had the place blessed and had even had crystals buried into the walls of the guest rooms, which they had been advised would stop him going into them. The fact that i'd felt something up on my floor (the 2nd) surprised them.
Anyway, I lived there for about 2 months, and EVERY time I used the toilet, I had that same feeling, but that's all that happened. It was such a nasty feeling, it felt like I was walking through him. As I'd step out, i'd get goosebumps all over.
After that 2 months or so, the owners obviously had a bit of trust in me, because they told me that they were all going on holiday and letting me stay in the hotel. I was the only guest at that time (February in Hastings is dead). It wasn't a good idea. The lady owner (I'm remembering now. Rose, I think. Rose and Dave) leaving meant that Trevor didn't have anyone to play with. Except me.
The first week was ok, a lot of noises from downstairs, but that was fine.
The second week, I was woken by the bed shaking. Not 'Excorcist' style shaking, but like the bed was being repeatedly punched. This happened once a night for three nights. On the forth night, It happened again but this time, when I opened my eyes, Trevor was at the end of my bed. He was solid, standing in front of the window, silhouetted. He stood there for about thirty seconds then vanished. It happened again one more night, without him appearing, and I shouted at him, like I had done in the flat, but in this case, it actually seemed to work. He didn't come into the room again. He was still at the toilet, though. I stayed there for another few weeks, til the contract ended.
My last significant ghostly happening was four years ago. I was woken at 1.30am by a blue orb, the size of a tennis ball, floating about 4 feet off the ground, beside my bed. It was neon blue and lit up the whole room. It pulsed three or four times and then disappeared. I had no idea what it was. The next evening, I got a call from my sister. She'd found my mum dead in her flat. She'd had a brain aneurism and died instantly. The coroner's report said she'd died between 1am-3am the night berfore. My mum had come to say goodbye.
As tomorrow is Halloween, does anyone else have any spooky experiences to share?