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