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Have you ever heard something go bump in the night? Have you seen a haunting figure that sent shivers down your spine, or photographed something that wasn’t really there?
Perhaps there is a local legend in your town of a ghostly resident, or a story passed down your family of an unwelcome guest in the house.
Ahead of Halloween, we want to hear YOUR spookiest, most spine-tinglingly terrifying ghostly experiences.
Tell us your stories via this form and scroll down for the tales our readers have been sending in, if you dare…
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Me, my boyfriend and my brother were sitting in my lounge about 1.00am in January this year.
I looked out the window onto the balcony and noticed a ghostly figure in the window.
It really freaked us out as strange things happened in the flat anyway such as toys going off on their own, doors opening and closing and just a general uneasy feeling of being watched.
I don’t live there anymore but it definitely did spook us.
-Lyndsey Fears, Brighton
My husband and I went on holiday to Cornwall with my parents-in-law. We were in a holiday cottage which we found out later was built on the site of an old leper colony.
At night, our dogs refused to stay downstairs and ran up and slept in our room. Whenever we turned the lights off downstairs, and walked around upstairs, the light seemed not to penetrate the darkness downstairs.
It lit up the top three or four stairs, and then seemed to stop. We found then that when we walked past the top of the stairs, we all felt as if we were being pulled down the stairs.
My father-in-law said he felt as if he was really being pulled down the stairs.
The cottage had a very unpleasant feeling about it and the visitors book had lots of pages missing and we think these were the pages people had complained on.
We stayed for three days and on the last day a putrid smell had penetrated the whole of the cottage. I was very glad to get home.
– Pam Park, Newport
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When working as a night nurse, I was having my break and suddenly I was aware of this woman in the room.
The women was dressed in clothes of 40’s fashion. She said sorry to me then disappeared. I came from my break slightly shaken but it was a busy night so I got on with my work.
On this shift we had one patient who was very ill and we didn’t think he would last the night. The patient died during the night and when I was packing away his belongs I came across a photo.
It was the women I had seen in the same clothes. His daughter told me it was her mom who had died and that this was his favourite photo.
I am convinced the ghost I saw was his wife who had come for him as he was so close to death
– Nicola Wootton, Sutton Coldfield
I have had lots of supernatural experiences – too many to mention, but this one was the worst.
Going back to my teens, my boyfriend (now hubby) and I spent a night out with my friends.
They decided to have a curry and we didn’t, so my friend gave me keys to her house. No sooner had we sat down and turned on the TV, it blinkered and went off, turned itself on again and went off.
We put this down to an electrical fault so turned on the radio… this worked fine for a few seconds, then that turned itself off.
So, sitting in silence, then the living room door flew open with such a force and the front door bell rang.
We were relieved they were back, but no, the front door was closed. We then heard knocking at the back, so thinking our friends were mucking about we went to investigate.
The knocking came from the patio doors. We pulled back the curtains to reveal a conservatory which we didn’t know they had, so the knocking came from INSIDE.
The owner of the house returned and we made a quick exit. Days later she asked why we had left so abruptly, “Was it because of Tom, our ghost?”
– Julie Howarth
I was on a paranormal night at Fort Amherst in Kent when I caught this picture of a lady holding a baby.
When I showed it to people at the fort they said it was a woman called Mary carrying her baby.
– David Sage, Sheerness
I was on a day trip to Hampton Court Palace and felt very drawn to the barrel room.
I felt I needed to stand at the top of the stairs so I thought I’d take a photograph on a old mobile which had no flash.
Luckily other visitors were taking pictures too so it lit up the dark space only for me to discover the image of a small child, a boy, at the bottom of the stairs.
I felt he was very friendly and I feel so blessed to have him on a picture of mine.
– Nicola Overton, Birmingham
In 1968 my boyfriend and I, with two others, decided to go to Torquay for the Easter weekend.
We thought we’d go on the Thursday night and drive through the night, as you do when you’re 18!
We were driving down a country lane at about 3am, when an old man walked out in front of us and, shining his torch, told us to follow him – the strange thing was we just followed him without question.
He led us to an old church through the graveyard. Here, we parked the car and were led into the church.
All the pews had been pushed back and people were standing around drinking tea and coffee, there was even a woman frying sausages in a frying pan!
We had some coffee and went on our way, never once questioning this weird event. We stopped in the nearest village and got some petrol.
On our way back after a great weekend we decided to stop at the church for a coffee.
We drove all around the grounds but could find no way in, there was a rusty gate with and equally rusty padlock on it.
We drove back to the garage and asked about the church, where we were told it had closed about 90 years ago!
– Maureen Sears, Surrey
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I took a picture of our new house through the window of the front door and noticed an old man with glasses staring back at me.
I was freaked out, to say the least!
– Vanessa, Hull
I lived in a council flat in Walthamstow, E17. I saw a woman dressed in black with a white rope-style sash around her waist.
Her hair was dark with a pale complexion. She was solid. I stroked her long dress and it was smooth cotton.
This entity said to me: “Do you know who I am?” She tried to get closer to me but was pulled back by an unseen force.
This happened in 1970. I was 11 years old and I was not frightened at the time. I told my parents while I was sitting in the living room what had happened to me, and I had to leave the bedroom light on as it frightened me.
I can still remember this and I’m 56 years old.
– Susan Vousden, Holland-on-Sea, Essex
My husband, myself and two kids live in a Victorian semi in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
I always sensed a presence in the main bedroom and our cat used to stare at a point in the corner.
One night I woke to see a young girl with dark hair and white night gown staring at me. I told no one.
Then one evening my daughter said there was a girl sitting on the end of the bed… and my very skeptical husband woke one morning thinking it was me at the end of the bed, but I was sleeping in my daughter’s room.
He called out, but the girl vanished. None of us had told each other but all saw the same.
I did a clearing and a prayer and she never came back.
– Julie, Abingdon
Weird one, this. I was about 15 years old and was on my own with my younger sister of 12 on our laptops. It was around 4pm and my mother was out shopping.
As we were sitting in the living room, a thunderous noise came from the kitchen on the breakfast bar.
I looked up and the fruit basket, with a heap of fruit on, was shuddering from left to right as quick as a coin as it falls flat to the ground.
It then slammed still.
As we gasped in horror, my sister and I ran straight out of the house and waited for our mom to get home.
When she was back, we explained the situation and she told us that a lot more things were happening during the night and the day.
We had to get a medium into the house to rid the spirits for peace and from then on nothing was ever out of the ordinary again.
Strange!
– Connor Tierney, Birmingham
It was October last year, around 6ish as it was just quite dark and the street lights had come on.
I was walking from the cathedral back into town down Greestone Stairs, which is a famous place in Lincoln for paranormal activity.
I heard someone walking behind me. The footsteps were quick, so I assumed they were in a hurry.
I stepped aside to let them past, and as I did a lady in Victorian clothing passed me and walked down -about 20 yards in front of me – stopped, and disappeared!
Lincoln is quite big on the steam punk scene and uphill Lincoln does have places where people wear period costume, so until this lady disappeared I wasn’t aware she was a ghost.
– Dean Anderton, Lincoln
Laying in bed at 7am, I heard someone walking up the stairs.
I was too scared to hardly breathe. I thought it was an intruder, but the steps came into the bedroom and I felt someone sit on the bed beside me.
I was sweating to the point I thought I was going to pass out. I knew this was a spirit of some sort.
I said ‘please go now’ and felt someone get off the bed and the door slightly moved.
This happened every morning for four days and I had nothing from there on.
I try to understand, as it feels someone wanted to see me but meant me no harm. Perhaps it’s someone from my past that I miss? I like to think so.
– Caz Bray, Cornwall
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I saw a white figure standing outside my bedroom window (so it would have been standing in the garden) one evening.
Since that evening, I have seen small white shadows and feeling cold.
Once, when I was sleeping, I woke up and I thought there was someone sitting at the end of my bed…
– Annabelle , Watford
One night, a year and a half ago, my girlfriend, my male friend and I were having a light drink one evening, when it was dark outside.
We were in my flat and I saw my girlfriend’s boot move, as if someone were putting it straight or tidying it up.
My girlfriend said she saw it move too, but our friend didn’t. I have never, ever witnessed anything quite like this and it makes me feel uneasy.
My flat has an unsettling feeling as it is, like a presence. I’m looking into getting it blessed.
I believe my father’s spirit may be there, as it used to be his place.
– Gary, York
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I was 14 years old lying in bed when I felt my duvet get tugged, then it was pulled off me.
When I looked, there was a little girl no older than eight years old wearing a Victioran dress, who walked backwards, in to the wall.
I told my mum and stepdad the next day and they said they had heard footsteps on the stairs.
My mum has had her hair played with as she laid in bed and my stepdad felt someone cuddle up to him.
– David Lee Parker, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire
I captured this white misty figure on a investigation I was asked to do.
It was at a pub and the landlady – even though she was skeptical – had heard a female voice in the pub late at night when no one was there.
During the investigation I was able to make a connection with a female spirit who said her name was Lilly – she had worked at the place when it was a farm house and still liked to be around.
I am a medium and psychic artist, I felt the ghost lady was by the kitchen door and took this photo.
– Christine Walsh, Cheshire
For a number of months after moving in our new house I was constantly waking up at approximately 1-2am every morning.
I explained to my husband that I kept seeing a man standing on my side of the bed watching me and he appeared to be in a soldier’s uniform.
Days, months went by with my husband calling me mad and saying I was just dreaming.
Then one night my husband woke up in the early hours and asked me why I was standing up. With no response from me, my husband gently poked me in the back. I was lying right by his side.
There are only two of us who live in the house! Since that night my husband has never questioned me when I have said I can see/feel something.
Also, unfortunately, we have had no other sightings of this particular ghost. But we seem to be getting other weird things happening…
– Louise McDermott, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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I was taking my usual afternoon stroll down to the local store. I did this on a regular basis and usually on the same day of the week – Wednesday.
Each Wednesday I’d have to walk along the canal to get to the store.
Every time I took this journey I would always see the same woman, about 60, just sat there on the bench facing the opposite way.
I had never tried to confront her, I had never seen her face either as she was always facing the other way, just sat there.
This time when I was walking to the store, I walked past her, I got intrigued and looked back as I passed her. What I saw when I looked back was horrific.
The woman was stood right behind me, staring. I froze.
Her face was wrinkled and old. Her eyes were rolled in to the back of her head and she was frothing what looked like blood.
Instantly I screamed. I blinked and she was gone. I never saw her again.
– Gertrude Tomlinson, Swansea
A ghost expert captured this mysterious image of what looks like a man walking out of a brick wall at the UK’s most haunted location.
During a day at Nottingham’s Galleries of Justice with his brother, Simon Brown, a qualified parapsychologist, snapped 100 photographs.
He only noticed the figure when he downloaded the picture. What he captured is the same vision as sightings reported by staff and customers throughout the building.
The Galleries of Justice were previously a courthouse and a gaol and many sightings, nosies and ghostly experiences have been reported there although never captured in this way.
The photo was taken at 4.29pm on Thursday, March 11. Below is Mr Brown’s account of the experience.
There is clearly a spectral figure seen at the base of the stairs walking from right to left. To the right where the figure appears to have come from is a modern brick wall.
I was standing at the bottom of the stairs looking directly up at an empty stairwell as seen in the other empty picture taken seconds before this shot.
The only way a figure could be seen walking in this direction is if it walked out of a brick wall.
When I took this picture there was no one in the frame and I was the last person who walked up these stairs at the end of the day 4.29 pm.
The figure appears to be wearing clothing which you would associate with a turn-of-the-last-century prisoner and dragging its right leg as if in chains.
What for me makes this picture really interesting is the figure appears to be transparent. If you look at the head you can clearly see the bars on the window through it I have been told that this type of exposure can not be an over exposure as other areas of the picture are not affected by this and over and under exposure should not be zone selective in a digital frame.
I only saw it (the figure) when I downloaded the picture. It’s unexplained. Is it a ghost? Although I normally argue against the existence of such things, I couldn’t answer that as a parapsychologist.
– Simon Brown, Peterborough
Images are copyright of Simon Brown F.Inst.F.P., Dip. Ppsy
