Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

This is where I have a problem… I don’t believe in an after life, but I do believe in ghosts because I’ve seen one and had exceptionally strange things happen.

The time I saw one, well two, was when I was driving with a friend, down a main country road with no street lights. It links where I live to the next main place, Litchfield and because there’s no houses etc, people go quite fast down there and there has been quite a few fatalities of people walking along there.

We both saw two lads up in front of us, walking on the right hand side, heading the way we was going. They started to cross the road, without looking. Because I was doing about 50 mph, by the time they got near the middle of the road and seeing that they still hadn’t looked behind, so they knew I was coming, I put my main beam on full. As soon as I did, the whole road lit up and the two lads just completely disappeared. Me and my friend just looked at each other, speechless and for a reason neither of us knew why, we both suddenly started to get tears running down our faces.

We both described them exactly, as to what they were wearing etc so we both knew we both saw them. They wasn’t see through or anything, they looked totally real. My friend started to ask if I thought they were now in the back of the car? This worried me that much, when I dropped my friend off, I left my car at his house and walked home and went to pick it up next day in daylight.

I can still see the road when I turned on my main beam, as clear now in my mind as the time it happened, I don’t think I’ll ever forget that moment.

As for the exceptionally strange things that have happened, I have no family as my mom and dad have both passed away. But I was quite young when my dad died and for a while things would happen where I would put something down, a minute later id turn round, and they wouldn’t be anywhere at all. I would turn the room over looking for whatever it was and not find it at all. Then later on I would hear someone whistling and whatever it was that had vanished, would instantly be somewhere in plain view, where if it had of been there all the time, I would of noticed straight away. But that stopped after about 6 months after he had died and things went back to normal.

Until about 2 years ago…..

(And this is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me)

I was sitting on the toilet one day, when suddenly a 2p coin just landed in the bath tub, as if it was thrown into there. I just sat there staring at it until it had stopped rolling round. The rational side of me kicked in, thinking a draught through the window must of knocked it off the window sill into the bath tub, even though the window was shut and there wasn’t any money left on there anyway. Even though it couldn’t of been what I was telling myself, when you live alone and things like that happen, you tell yourself what you want to hear, because having something thrown near you, is a hell of a lot scarier than having something just go missing for a while.

It happened again a few days later in the kitchen, I was waiting for the kettle to boil when another 2p coin landed on the work surface behind me.

I never even bothered with my drink then, I just ran out of there as fast as I could.

It got worse though…

I was in an online poker tournament, late at night and I was really concentrating on the game. I had my right hand on my mouse and my left elbow on my desk, with my hand supporting my chin, thinking about what to do in the game. I then started to feel something pressing lightly into my left forearm. But although I could feel it, I was concentrating so much on what was happening in the game, I didn’t take much notice.

Then suddenly I heard a coin drop on my desk in front of my arm and my blood went cold. It really freaked me out and I couldn’t move for a minute or two.

But instead of being scared, I actually regretted not looking when I first felt it pressing into my arm, about 4 inches high above my desk. I still regret it even now, because if only I had of looked and saw this coin mid air pressing into me, I would of had even more proof that there must be such things as ghosts and therefore the possibility that there must be an afterlife.

After that, I so much wanted more things to happen as that would of given me the proof for sure, but unfortunately nothing did, or has happened since then.

And its because of what I have experienced, I really struggle in my mind in if there’s an afterlife. I know what I saw and what has happened and know it to be 110% true, but then the other half of my mind tells me there’s no such thing and its this that leaves me feeling like I’m contradicting myself.

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