Blue Lady

From: Anonymous
Story type: Ghost
Location: South Africa
Source: Form Submission

This incident actually happened to my husband but I was with him at the time and it certainly seemed real to me! We were on holiday in Cape Town, South Africa with two friends, staying in a hotel. The hotel actually was like a block of flats and our 'room' was a small apartment consisting of two bedrooms, a lounge, kitchen and bathroom.

Anyway, to get on with the story. I was woken in the middle of the night by my husband shouting out. He occasionally has nightmares and I tried what I usually do which is to shush him until he quietens down - he doesn't usually wake up (he had actually done this once already that night and had calmed down without waking).

However, this time was different. As I turned to calm him he sat up in bed, wide awake, pointing to my side of the bed and saying over and over "There's a ghost! Over there, there's a ghost!". I looked but couldn't see anything but he kept on insiting it was there. I don't know how long this went on for before I panicked and switched the light on but it seemed ages.

As soon as the light went on the ghost disappeared. I was absolutely terrified by this time (I'm not very brave!!) but he seemed more amazed than anything. What he had seen was a figure of a women kneeling on the floor by my side of the bed. As he looked at it, it stood up and said 'Hiya'. Then it seemed to gasp as if realising someone had seen it and stepped backwards into the corner of the room - he said it seemed to be all blue and sort of 'sparkly'. At this point I had switched the light on and it disappeared. Neither of us got any more sleep that night and just sat up in bed talking (after I had made him swap sides with me!). I remember feeling freezing cold for the rest of the night but put this down to shock more than anything.

We have since tried to rationalise it as maybe a dream, but I know that he was wide awake and it seemed to go on for such a long time. While it was happening he actually thought that it was our friend coming in to wake us (we had an early flight the next day). He is very sceptical about it but I am convinced he did see something, simply because he was so awake.

The next day we told our friends about it and interestingly one of them had seen something that night as well, before we woke them up with our yelling about ghosts! Our friend had seen something white, like a figure pass by their bedroom door, which was slightly ajar. She got up to get a drink thinking that one of us would be out in the lounge or bathroom, but there was nobody there! Needless to say we were all quite thankful that it was our last night there!

Anyway, thats my story, not as interesting or scary or some on these pages, but bad enough for me. I love reading the stories, keep them coming!