Ghost Stories & Paranormal Encounters

After finishing my degree and qualifying as a nurse I decided to get my own flat, my friend and I had wanted to get a flat for a while but while flat hunting we realized that all the flats we wanted were way out of our price range. I really didn’t want to move back in with my parents, I wanted independency as we were beginning to loose hope my friend found a flat for rent in the area we wanted way under the prices we had been seeing for the last few months. We got it. We didn’t even go and see it we got it, a flat that cheap would go in a flash we had to get in there fast.

The flat was freezing and damp, it needed a lot of work, we immediately kicked ourselves about rushing into this flat without really considering it properly. It was a hard few months but after a year of saving, decorating, saving decorating the flat had really improved and the two of us were really pleased with what we had achieved.

One night I was alone in the flat and I heard a bang in my bedroom, I walked in and the window was wide open and my makeup bag was on the floor its contents all over, somehow my nail varnish had unscrewed and my foundation had spread all over the floor, what’s going on? I was so upset I had just got  anew carpet and it was totally ruined, I pulled down the window and locked it, I was sure I had already done so. I walked back into the kitchen sat down and the lights all turned off I stood up a little freaked out and went to see if the trip switch was off, they were all on, the I felt something behind me, I couldn’t breathe, someone was in the house, “oh my god,” I whispered and spun around, ‘who’s in here?’I shouted, no answer I felt my heart beating in my chest then the lights turned on and I rushed into every room to check if anyone was there, I was totally alone, what is going on?

A few weeks later I came home from a night shift, I crept quietly into the house as I didn’t want to wake up my flat mate, I found her at the kitchen table, her head in her hands, what’s wrong? I asked, there’s someone in the house she sobbed, I felt cold my heart stopped for a moment, ‘what do you mean’ I felt hands around my throat when I was in bed last night, cold hands’ my flat mate started sobbing, we needed to sort this out, there was something wrong here, it could only be a ghost.

I went to see my landlady, I asked if anything strange was going on when the last tenants lived in the flat. my landlady, Joanne seemed reluctant to say but she said she had struggled to keep people in the flat for long, people only lasted there a few months she was surprised we had been there over a year, ‘we have a ghost’ she said plainly, ‘it wont go away, we’ve tried a lot of methods, this flat is inhospitable, people cant live in it, its a shame its a great flat, that’s why we are renting it so cheap’ I was shocked, a ghost? even though I suspected it, it was shocking to hear those words.

Later that night me and my friend decided to try and contact the ghost, we sat in the living room with all the lights on, we didn’t want to do it in the dark. we asked if it was there, what did it want we said we wanted two knocks for yes, one for no. my friend asked if it wanted us to leave, we heard a tap, a faint tap it came from the bedroom, we screamed, You don’t want us to leave? yes? another two taps, I felt sick. Why are you haunting us then? we didn’t get an answer. We decided we needed to connect with the spirit better, ‘I don’t know why you haunt us, or why you put your hands around my friends neck, your scaring us but you don’t want us to leave, I think your lonely, you needed attention you needed to make yourself known and you’ve done this now, we know your here, we respect this is your home too, but if you want us to stay, stop freaking us out, we said this there has been no more hauntings, we live in peace with our spirit friend, we’ve called her Jamie.

Sent in by Blanche Jones, Copyright 2009