| Now, I will recount in full what happened to me | | | | around the property.After an inspection, while |
| and my partner in a house we used to live in, | | | | things had been moved, they were still there. We |
| before my first born was around.It was the | | | | also pulled the landlord up and virtually accused |
| winter of 2000, myself and my partner were | | | | him of unauthorized access to the property. |
| expecting our first child, after we had been told | | | | He knew nothing about it, and our next door |
| that we couldn't conceive, so we were jubilant at | | | | neighbours confirmed that no one had been seen |
| this fact, as you can well imagine.We had to find a | | | | entering the house.Confused, we both agreed that |
| new home, after having to move from our | | | | with things the way they were, we would try not |
| previous home, and so you can guess, moving is | | | | to spend much time in the house, due to the |
| a stressful time, especially when your partner is | | | | strange activity that was unsettling my wife. It |
| expecting! We had to find somewhere pretty | | | | wasn't good for her and the baby.So from that |
| quick, so we settled for a mid terraced property | | | | day on we spent very little time as we could |
| in the Bentley area of our town. It was a proper | | | | there, just to escape the weirdness.On one |
| dump. Functional I suppose, with barely enough | | | | occasion, my father in law came to the house |
| room to move about, and a tiny kitchen. we had | | | | while we were out. He knocked at the door |
| no option to wait there until we could find a more | | | | thinking that we were in and that we may have |
| suitable house in the next few months.I had just | | | | been asleep (I worked nights, so was usually in |
| started a new job working as a security guard in | | | | bed in the day) |
| order to keep us going, and it was OK. The spare | | | | A figure peeped out of the front window, looking |
| time I had, I spent it with my partner, usually | | | | down to see who was there. Assuming it was us, |
| visiting friends and family.One day, I visited my | | | | he began shouting through the letter box, |
| sister, and happened to meet my brother in law's | | | | wondering why we wouldn't answer the door. |
| sister, who had also come down to visit at the | | | | He then rang my mobile phone, to ask me why |
| same time. We all chatted and the subject of our | | | | we wouldn't let him in, to which we answered, we |
| recent house move came up as topic of | | | | couldn't because we were out! |
| conversation."Where about in Bentley are you | | | | He thought we had had an intruder, again there |
| moving to?" She asked."Askern Road" I | | | | was nothing.The incidents kept happening and it |
| replied."We only live a few streets away from | | | | became increasingly difficult to not feel |
| there, and my friend has just moved out of a | | | | uneasy.Then one night, around the early hours of |
| house there a bit ago" She answered.She asked | | | | the morning, I was in bed with my partner. I was |
| me then what number I was at, so I told her the | | | | in a deep sleep and was enjoying a nice dream, |
| full address. | | | | when I heard an all mighty racket. I woke up and |
| Her face dropped when I told her."I know all | | | | jumped up quickly to the sound of a mans voice |
| about that place" she said."That was where my | | | | and a woman's voice, arguing to blazes down |
| friend used to live, and I could tell you things | | | | stairs in my living room! I thought to myself we |
| about that place" she continued "But don't listen to | | | | must have burglars and woke up my wife who |
| me""Why what happened" I asked"Someone was | | | | was asleep next to me in bed. She panicked and |
| killed there, a while back, but don't worry, they | | | | told me to sort it out. I then picked up a wooden |
| put it down to an accident"I continued to try and | | | | stick I had in the bed room next to the bed, and |
| quiz her, but she clammed up and wouldn't let | | | | started to walk towards the door to investigate |
| anything slip, so the subject slipped by and we | | | | and hopefully scare them off. But they had heard |
| got onto other things.For a few days, we kept | | | | me creaking on the floorboards, and as I got |
| asking our new neighbours and local shop | | | | towards the door, I heard "Shhh, be quiet some |
| workers, if they knew anything about it.Most of | | | | one's coming!" I ran down the stairs making a din |
| them had not been around long enough to know | | | | in order to scare the , what I thought were |
| much about the street, but a few knew about | | | | robbers away, turning all the lights on, only to find |
| the incident a few years previous, but they didn't | | | | that there was no one apart from myself and |
| like to talk about it, only to add to the information | | | | my wife there!That was a really terrifying |
| we already had with things like, "Nobody has ever | | | | experience, first being scared that there were |
| stayed the full contract since the old lady was | | | | intruders, then to find that they were ghosts |
| killed/slipped etc. on the stairs"We never could find | | | | instead!A couple of days later the presence on |
| out who she was, or the identity of the would be | | | | the stairs came back, and for the first time I |
| assailant.A few more weeks went by, and there | | | | actually could perceive it slightly, so I got out my |
| started to be a sudden shift in the overall feeling | | | | wife's Polaroid instant camera, and started taking |
| of the house. Things would disappear and | | | | pictures of the stairs.Lo and behold on two of the |
| reappear from time to time, though we put this | | | | shots a glowing Christ like, energy form had been |
| down to us forgetting or misplacing them | | | | captured, we were excited by this and proceeded |
| ourselves.The carpet on the stairs would slip from | | | | to take more shots, and started getting braver |
| its fixings, and I nearly fell down quite a few | | | | until all the film was gone.Later the next day, my |
| times, only catching the banister in time. It was a | | | | father in law came in for a cup of tea, and we |
| good job that my wife only went up and down | | | | told him about the voices, showed him the photos |
| the stairs with my help as I hate to think of what | | | | and he became quite on edge about the place.On |
| could have happened to her and the baby inside | | | | his way back down stairs, the carpet gave way |
| her.The atmosphere had become more | | | | from the fixings again (This had been fixed down |
| oppressive as time moved on, the feeling that a | | | | properly and shouldn't have done so) as he turned |
| presence was watching our every move put my | | | | to stop himself from falling, he felt only what he |
| wife into a constant state of paranoia.She started | | | | could describe as a horrible feeling, as if something |
| to refuse to stay in the house when I was on | | | | had passed through him. He had had encounters |
| nightshift, preferring to stay at her parents.The | | | | with a poltergeist at a previous address before, |
| trouble began when one day, she was in the | | | | but this encounter had really scared him. He |
| kitchen cooking our dinner one night.She had her | | | | actually ran out, colour drained from his face, |
| back to the doorway of the kitchen, and felt a | | | | refusing to ever set foot in the house again, and |
| presence standing there. Assuming it was me she | | | | he never did!Things had got too much in the |
| continued the conversation we had been having | | | | house, and after we came back from our holidays |
| earlier, unaware I was in the living room! | | | | a week later, we found a new place. Our baby |
| She even saw a figure standing there out of the | | | | was nearly due, and I didn't want anything to |
| corner of her eye, but when she turned to face, | | | | compromise the birth, so we moved on.Months |
| what she thought had been me, there was no | | | | later we discovered that the previous tenants, |
| one there!After that, all of the activity | | | | had been party to the spirit in there and were |
| worsened.Larger items and money started to go | | | | also forced to move out for similar reasons.A bit |
| missing, only to reappear in totally bizarre | | | | of the truth came out about the incident on the |
| locations, such as the spare room cupboards, | | | | stairs as well, it had been an old lady who was |
| some never to appear again.The events took a | | | | pushed by an attacker down the stairs, when she |
| turn for the worst when, we were out one day | | | | had tried to confront him. The woman had slipped |
| at my sisters again. | | | | on the loose carpet and fractured her skull and |
| I always go round, checking I have turned off | | | | later died.I will never forget that house, and I |
| the heating, cooker, fires etc. before I leave the | | | | hope that you will never have to live or go |
| house and lock up, its a force of habit, as I'm | | | | there.Will Grundy has been involved in matters of |
| sure many others do. | | | | the occult and the spirt since he was young, he |
| All the power was switched off.We returned | | | | runs the Doncaster Ghostwatch Project (DGWP) |
| later that night to find that ALL the lights had | | | | a Doncaster, UK based paranormal group and can |
| been switched on, the TV and CD player were | | | | be found also on the DGWP forums of which he |
| turned up at full blast, and again items had been | | | | runs If you want to contact him for any reason, |
| moved.My first reactions were, we had either had | | | | email him at and he will be happy to chat to you |
| a break in, or my landlord had been rummaging | | | | about all things strange... |