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Date Posted: Tuesday, July 08, 08:45:10 GMT-4
Author: Anth
Subject: Haunted building

A few years back I had a really unusual experience.

A friend lived in a building that some would call a flat, others a house,In fact it once had been a house, converted into a shop with a flat above then more or less back into just a house.
We have photographic evidence that the house was in existance circa 1905. What is actually a creepy picture of a little girl stood outside the house (this was in the form of a postcard of all things sent back to the town from Australia which I find strange in itself.)
I had heard stories of the house being haunted from my friend that lived there, occasionally I had seen some very strange things, shadows moving on a wall upstairs when no one was up there, the kind of things people tend to put down to a vivid imagination.
I awoke one morning after sleeping on the couch at the bottom of the stairs to see what I thought was an old man in a tuxedo staring at me with his arms folded. I blinked and he was gone. Pah a dream I thought, still half asleep you daft sod. I didnt mention this to anyone at the time.

Months passed, strange things happened, usually re-ocurring nightmares for the people living in the house, always connected with the front (main) bedroom. It was of a figure bursting through the door, collapsing onto their knees saying help me, and fire visable in the background.

Needless to say me and my friend started trying to poke around finding out about the history of the building. It was indeed built at the turn of last century, although no one is sure exactly when, even the deeds disagree with other evidence.
The purpose of the building had changed a few times from a green grocers to something I wont mention now, to a sunbed tanning salon of which it is now again. There was also rumours that it had been used as a meeting place for a neo nazi group....we have been unable to confirm this though.

The building has NEVER burnt down or been on fire from records we could find.

One Friday night during the late summer of 1998 there was a party, at this party were two friends of mine that knew nothing about this building. I was stood in the backyard near the gate to exit the building and property (the front door now was access to a shop again) and one of my friends Elaine, shrieked "what the hell is that in the corner?" Sure enough there in a far corner of the yard, which was extremely dark, was a figure. I say figure because I cannot think of a better word, it wasnt human or of human origin. I have to say at this point I was feeling surges of adrenalin and what could be described as electric shocks flowing up my spine to the base of my skull. I was terrified. I didnt hesitate any longer, we ran back inside locked the door and hit the outside lights. opened the curtains on the patio door and cautiously looked out.....nothing.

At this point I would like to explain the "mysterious" use of the building, it was in fact an abatoir and butchers shop. This is the reason why I think the form we saw wasnt of human destription.
We felt afterwards that the presence wasnt particulalry benevolent either and that given chance would cause us some harm.
1999.
I was now at this time working for the sunbed company that owned the building, and also the friend that lived there was the manager of. He actually had just moved out and the owner was converting the house to commercial premises again. A few funny things happened during this period mostly tools being moved and the boss coming downstairs asking what I shouted him for when I had done no such thing. Occasionally he would come down and hang around, plainly not wanting to go back upstairs. Its worth noting that he was working in what was the front bedroom at this time.
One evening at approximately 8:45pm I was sat in the shop manning the phones and serving the customers of the tanning booths. One customer who I had got chatting to was stood in front of me, the manager (who used to live there) was stood to the right of me doing some paper work and I could see through the new doorway to the stairs in the room beyond.
I was not prepared for what happened then.
I swear to this day I saw a misty human shape walk down the stairs and could clearly see an arm with a hand on the bannister rail, the figure stopped, seemingly looked at me and I froze. The manager noticed I had gone white. he just looked at me and said "theres something behind me isnt there? I dont even need to turn around" I blinked looked at him nodded and looked back, the figure was gone.

Now I can certainly say there was no one else in the building with us at that time, I can also certainly say I wasnt happy with the manager and customer running out of the building and leaving me to go upstairs, turn off the lights and set the alarm.


I can offer very little in the way of explanations, there are more true tales of events in the master bedroom but I know this post is getting very large indeed and skipped them.

I am still horrified to this day by the shape/figure in the back yard and wondered if it could have been an elemental spirit.
I know for certain I will never forget that building.

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