“I don’t believe in ghosts, but …” – 19 very creepy tales
10.
On my way to my first day of primary school in 1984, my dad opened our front gate for me and my mum.
He died in 1979.
— Laura Brown (@EnchantedTrifle) 31 December 2019
11.
Until I was 5 I talked about "my other mummy" who had hair in a bun and lived in Blackberry Lane. In my teens, aunt found photos of her and mum's granny in Ireland. They'd never seen them before. I screamed. She was stood by a blackberry bush with hair in a bun. My other mummy.
— Bearnevolent Dictator (@bear_faced_lady) 31 December 2019
12.
As a child I liked playing with magnetic letters on the fridge. One day I wrote "Teg is here". No idea why.
A few years later we were looking at the deeds to the house and found it had been built on a field called Teg's Pieces.
— Jessica S (@JessicaS_PZ) 31 December 2019
13.
Oh man. The night I was alone in my bedroom and heard someone whisper “night night” in my ear and felt their breath.
— Sophie Law (@Brucey1) 31 December 2019
14.
Carrying infant son from the bathroom to his bedroom. Glanced in my bedroom as I passed and thought I saw a man sitting on my bed. Assumed eyes/shadows were playing tricks and said nothing – then my son asked, “who’s the old man sitting on your bed, mummy?”
— DAtkin (@DeeAisha) 1 January 2020
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Mate ,who lived in a building that was used as a hospital for injured soldiers returning from the war, who's wee boy regularly stood speaking to someone and laughing and when asked who he's speaking to replied the man dressed like Action Man.
— Trevor Greig (@tgreig76) 31 December 2019
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8-10 yrs old, at my first house. Flicked the light on and there was a man standing in the corner. He had this wide brimmed hat on, and some sort of suit that had this large tear up the arm. He didn't say anything. He disappeared and I just sat there staring at where he was.
— Jennifer (@BrokenSlinki) 31 December 2019
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As a child we lived in a house in Cornwall that was several hundred years old.
Even after the installation of central heating the back bedroom was always cold and our dog refused to go in there, regardless of bribes, and just stood in the doorway, with hackles raised, growling.— Joanne Godding (@joanne_godding) 31 December 2019
18.
But when I was a toddler I had a friendly poltergeist who would help me ‘find’ lost things which would all be found in out of reach, bizarre or places I shouldn’t know about. Went on for two years till we moved house.
— Sam Espensen (@SamEspensen) 31 December 2019
19.
Sitting on the sofa, watching TV with my mum.
Suddenly I feel 'something' (best way I can describe it is like a medium-sized bird's wing) brush quickly past the side of my head closest to my mum.
I turn around and she stares at me and says 'did you feel that too?!'
— duncan gates (@Duncan_Gates) 31 December 2019
Comedy writer David Hughes gave us a little light relief with this.
I don’t believe in ghosts but I died in 2005. https://t.co/ZJDuQDfjh7
— David Hughes (@david8hughes) January 1, 2020
Did you just feel that unexplained cold spot?
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