Fortean Times It Happened to Me vol. 3 by Fortean Times

Author:Fortean Times [Times, Fortean]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Paranormal, ghosts, unexplained, UFO
Publisher: Dennis Publishing

THE OLD COUPLE

When I was young, I lived with my parents and brother and sister in a small four-bedroom council house called “Freeways” in Cheverly, near Newbury in Berkshire. About 23 years ago, when I was five, we spent a few days with my granddad around the first anniversary of grandma’s passing away. Not long after our return, mum ran into an old friend, who said she had called round; an old lady had answered our front door and said there was no Sue or Pete (my mum and dad) living at that address.

Mum then questioned our neighbours, who had been feeding our animals while we were away, and asked if they had seen or heard anything. They said that a few times there had been an empty milk bottle on the front doorstep, and once they had found the front door open, but as nothing appeared to have been moved or taken, they just assumed they had forgotten to lock it. Then a few people said they had seen a caravan parked in our drive and others had seen an elderly couple going in and out of the house. The funny thing was that only half the street had seen anything. My parents were really worried and called the police, but as nothing had happened to us directly, they were unable to do anything.

Then one Sunday evening, as we were sitting in the front room watching Antiques Roadshow on television, mum noticed a very strong smell of bleach; she felt it burning the inside of her nose. The rest of us couldn’t smell anything. Later, I remember feeling really cold sitting next to an open log fire and then a coathanger hanging on the bird cage that was suspended from the ceiling started to swing really violently, which made our bird go mad. This is all I can remember of that night.

Not long after, as my sister was getting out of the bath, she heard some very heavy breathing and dragging feet coming towards the bathroom. The rest of the family was in the garden. Scared, she ran out of the bathroom onto the landing and collided with someone or something and heard it fall against the wall, but she didn’t stop to look back. My parents didn’t find anything apart from what looked like a pattern on the carpet of something dragging its feet.

As for the elderly couple, nothing was found out about them and they were never seen again. To this day, the families that move into that house don’t seem to live there for longer than a year - or so I’ve been told. Our local newspaper found out about our haunting. It has now become a well-known ghost story for the locality.

Victoria Price, by email, 2007

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