Lights

From: Mary Thomas cmamjt@mail.soc.staffs.ac.uk
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 12:50:48 GMT
Type: Ghost
Story-type: Personal experience
Location: Middleport, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England
Source: Email Submission

This is a personal experience which happened in 1992. I live in a house which is now 90 - 95 years old. The house is situated in Middleport, Burslem, Stoke on Trent, England. It is an end terrace house. When I first went to view the house with thoughts of buying it, I thought I felt an uneasy sort of feeling in the back bedroom, but I never gave it a second thought, I thought it was probably nerves due to being in the company of strangers. I went ahead and bought the house, against the better judgement of the Building Society from whom I loaned the money.

Six months after being there I had a visit from my eldest sister. She told me that she thought she had seen a rather large man standing in the doorway to the upstairs. I laughed it off and never thought anymore about it. Even when I had other friends come and visit/stay I ignored them when they commented on the man. The house has two bedrooms one at the front, and one at the back. As the front was too noisy, I moved into the back bedroom. The light was controlled by a pull cord. I woke several nights to find that the light was on. I turned it off and when I woke in the morning it was on again.

Lights came on over the house and I decided to get the place rewired. I did so and it still continued. I woke one night to see a woman walk across the end of my bed and then up to me, she began to lash out at me, I jumped out of bed and opened the passage door, there was nothing there. A few nights later I heard very heavy footsteps on the stairs, when I opened the door there was no one there. I moved once again into the front bedroom. There began to be knockings on the door, windows banging, although they weren't open and finally one night, what ever it was pinned me to the bed.

I eventually leapt out of bed and switched on the light, there was a horrible smell in the room. I checked the rest of the house but there was nothing. I was hysterical when I went to work the next day. A friend came home with me, who isnt spooked out by this stuff, and I rang a friend of mine who is a medium. He contacted two women who are exorcists, and they came to my house. They asked me loads of different questions, so as to make sure I wasn't feeding them crap. They then went upstairs and confirmed (much to my relief) that there was indeed a spirit of a man there who was very large, and had 'attacked' me because he thought I was someone else. They put this 'entity' to rest, and after that I had a preacher come to the house and bless every single room.

I have had loads of bad luck since living in the house, and this hasn't changed, even though the preacher came, I still feel there is still something there 3 years on. The medium whom I contacted can confirm this story.