In the area of my town, there had been no hauntings or
ghosts etc, as far as I knew, until one day when I got home
from school (I was 15 at the time). My mum had had a visit
from an old neighbour of ours we hadn't seen for a while.
They had been chatting when she told my mum about some
friends of her, that had just moved in to one of the houses
on the new housing estate, just down the road from us. The
owners of the house had experienced lights, TV's and
radio's switching themselves off, and more disturbingly a
figure of a man. He had appeared standing on the landing
outside their bedrooms and at the end of the garden. He was
dressed in an old 1930's suit. Builders of the houses had
said to them that they had been given instructions not to
move a large rock at the end of the garden.
One time, their daughter came home to find the front door
locked so knocked for someone to let her in. All of a
sudden the man appeared in front of her, blocking her way.
Their son, who is a tough guy in the army, won't even come
home! They having also felt as if they are being pushed
sometimes, when walking about the house. Their next door
neighbours have also experienced similar events.
So after my mum told me this we sat round and talked about
it. I couldn't understand how brand new houses could have a
ghost. I remembered that before the houses were built there
had just been fields that belonged to a nearby farm which
held a few horses. Then my mum said there had been an old
barn in the corner of the field that my neighours used to
play in when they were young. Then we talked to my grandad
about it who said he remembered a man who had committed
suicide in that barn, back in the 1950's and then was
buried on site. Now it made sense. Obviously, the
demolishing of the barn and building of the houses had
disturbed the spirit of the man.
The owners of the house still live there after three or
four years, apparently they don't mind the ghost. I have
walked and cycled past the house and have felt a weird
atmosphere around there.
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