Last August I turned 20 and as a present my girlfriend
decided to take me on a week long holiday into the country
to a quaint little cabin in the middle of a small wooded
area in Norfolk.
I spent my actual birthday, August 2nd with my family and
Helen and then on the 3rd we set off. It only took about
two hours on the train to Kings Lynn then a cab ride to
where we were staying.
The woods would kind of remind you of the woods in Blair Witch, except being August there was
still plenty of foliage. It was only about a half an our
walk to where we were staying, there wasn't a path as
such, more like a well walked shallow trench.
We arrived
at the cabin at about noon and got to emptying our packs
and bags, then we toured around the house. It was actually
a bit too comfortable to be called quaint! Downstairs was
dominated by an expansive living room, comfy sofa,
recliners, even a fairly large TV and a DVD player (we
knew in advance to bring some DVD movies to watch as the
reception was bad due to all the trees.) The kitchen had
an electric cooker, fridge and washer/dryer. I breathed a
sigh of relief, I liked going back to basics but dreaded
the idea of starting a fire to cook with, I'm a Wiccan so
don't like the idea of cutting down trees, even if it
would have been one or two. Also downstairs was a toilet.
There was a staircase at the front of the house, up stairs
were three bedrooms, two were barely bigger then closets
and the third was enormous! A king-size bed, wardrobes and
mirrors lined the walls. There was also a big bathroom
with a bathtub and separate shower, another toilet and
a "changing area" which was really a corner of the room
with one of those standing screens blocking the view.
After we had looked around we decided to make some food as
we both were famished after the journey. We made some
spaghetti and "meat" balls (Helen is a Vegan so it was
really Quorn balls) We talked about how we were going to
spend the week, our plans mainly included watching movies,
sleeping late and unlimited amounts of snuggling! After
eating we decided to check out the TV, first of all though
opening all the windows as it was getting stuffy.
The breeze was lovely, I guess it was cooler because of all
the shade the trees gave. We flicked through the TV
channels but as we had been warned, the reception sucked!
So we decided to watch a DVD, I had bought along some
comedies, Phoenix Nights went on as it's my favorite
show. We had only watched about five minutes before we
heard a blood-curdling scream. We froze, it came from
everywhere, from upstairs, but also outside and from in
the living room too. I ran outside to check and Helen ran
upstairs to search the rooms. I called out at the top of
my lungs if there was anybody there and if they needed
help for about ten minutes before my voice started to
crack but nothing. Not a single returned call. We both
returned to the living room looking mystified.
After
agreeing that we had both heard a woman screaming we
talked about the possibilities, if there was no woman then
all it could have been was a ghost. I was willing to
believe that, but Helen, who is a sceptic, decided it must
have been a bird, a fox or some other animal screeching
having a fight or something. I decided to go along with
her story as she never believes, even though I live in a
haunted house (different story, different time!) She still
passes it off as normal everyday experiences, she doesn't
even believe in Magick! So we got back to watching the DVD
and everything went OK until bed time.
We didn't go to bed until about 2am as I am an Insomniac
and Helen is used to working the night shift at the
hospital, she is a Midwife, so we are both used to late
nights. We lay in bed with just a lamp on talking for a
while, about how nice it was here and how nice it was to
get an entire week alone, usually we can barely have a
meal together without something coming up. I rang my
family to let them know how we were, and I texted a few
friends on my mobile to say hi and then we decided to go
to sleep. We had a fan running as it was very hot, and
just a top sheet covering us. All that could be heard was
the fan and the occasional owl hoot. We both fell asleep
pretty quickly, tired from the early morning we had had
and all the excitement of being here.
I however woke up with a start a while later. I don't know what woke me, but
I woke like someone had just called my name, with an
unexpected jump. I looked over at the clock and saw that
it was about 3:30, it was still dark and I was freezing. I
lay wondering why I had woken when I heard a wheezy
laughter coming from the bedroom doorway. I tried to see
if there was anything there, squinting through the
darkness but saw nothing. Hardly surprising since I didn't
have my glasses on, anything further then a foot in front
of my face becomes a blur! I reached out and flicked on
the lamp and saw a brief shadow flitting from the door but
then nothing, just an empty doorway. Helen stirred next to
me, sleepily mumbling the question of why I had the light
on. I shook her fully awake and told her what had
happened. She didn't believe me. She didn't think I was
lying, just that because I was sleepy I had imagined the
laugh and that the shadow was my eyes playing tricks. I
agreed, kissed her and turned the light out to go back to
sleep. Helen hugged me nearer to her and I must say I felt
reassured now her arms were around me. I wasn't exactly
scared, like I said I live in a haunted house, but I know
my ghosts and know they wouldn't hurt me, if anything they
protect me, but this spirit I didn't know so I would have
to keep my guard up. I soon heard Helen softly snoring
next to me and before long I joined her.
We woke at about 11:30am and lay in bed enjoying the
peaceful quiet that surrounded the house. The nighttime
laughter as I called him still bugged me, but I decided to
get over it, if he didn't hurt me then I wouldn't hurt
him.
We set about making breakfast, some vegan yogurt and
some fruit. We talked about nothing in particular as we
ate, laughing and joking in our usual manner. Since today
(the 4th) was extremely hot I decided to have a cold
shower before we did anything else. Helen decided to have
a hot bath, leaving me protesting that it was way too hot
to soak in anything but ice water! I showered and changed
into shorts and a t-shirt and while Helen had her bath I
read to her, we were in the middle of reading the Harry
Potter books, we are both addicted! We take turns in
reading chapters to each other, that way we can read the
same book at the same time. I had only gotten a few pages
into the 10th chapter of the 3rd book when all of a sudden
there was a loud knocking on the door, real thumping
knocks. I went down to the answer the door wondering who
it could be. I didn't think anyone else was around here
and hoping nothing had happened to our families. I opened
the door and there was no one. I called hello but got no
reply. I decided to walk around the house but found no
one. When I came back inside Helen was dressed in shorts
and a shirt and asked what had happened and I told her
that no one was there. She again shrugged the incident off
though did have a nervous look in her eyes. I knew fully
well what was happening, we were stuck in the middle of
the woods with one if not more ghosts. I wasn't mad at
Helen for not believing, I knew that in time if she had
proof she would believe. I also knew that if we stayed the
week that she would probably have that proof dancing right
in front of her.
The day went without further ghostly
interference until dinnertime. We spent the day hiking
through the woods, it was wonderful to be out of the city
and surrounded by nature. We were cooking, had put
potatoes and nut roast in the oven and were just watching
a bit of Jeepers Creepers when something from the kitchen
caught our eyes. I should explain that the kitchen is
joined to the living room by a very attractive archway.
Through the arch we both saw a glass... well Floating! It
moved from the right side of the room and hovered for a
moment before crashing to the floor. That was not the
worse of it sadly. As soon as the glass broke a booming
echoing deep demonic voice bellowed at us "GET OUT" Then
the bloodcurdling woman's scream happened again. Needless
to say we obliged.
We sat on a fallen log about 20 feet from the house. I
turned to Helen and simply said "So, what do you think
just happened?" She just looked at me and I saw terror in
her eyes. After a minute or so she said "Maybe we should
do something, like you do something. You're good with this
ghost stuff, isn't there a cleansing you could do?" Well
of course there was, I never go anywhere without a spell
book and the basic herbs, including sea salt, sage and
rosemary, all excellent for banishing and cleansing. We
decided to go back inside about 10 minutes later. Helen
holding my hand in a vice grip, she is two years older
then me, but obviously she had never had experiences like
this before and was more then terrified.
I left her in the
kitchen, she said she was OK now and would take care of
the food, it was almost done. I went upstairs and got my
herbs and salt and found the words in my spell book that I
needed to get rid of this apparent evil. I gathered my
things and went downstairs. Helen and I ate in silence, I
decided it was best to get my strength up before starting
the banishing. I started at the top of the house, working
my way through the rooms, sprinkling my mixture and
chanting as I went. Working my way to the front door,
building up as much energy as I could I yelled out "Begone
from this place, unworthy energy. So Mote It Be"
Things actually felt cleaner in the house. The sun shone
through the trees a little brighter and everything seemed
OK for the rest of the day. Sadly things would get a lot
worse during the night. So bad that it would drive us from
the house in terror.
We had decided after the days activity to leave in the
morning so after dinner we packed up all our things and
set them at the foot of the bed. We got into bed somewhat
reluctantly. We just sat reading for a while, there was a
huge storm building outside, we could hear distant thunder
and knew it would start pouring down soon. We read for a
couple of hours, each taking turns to read aloud. At about
1:30 the heavens opened. Rain lashed down outside and
thunder boomed so loud it made our ears ring. We always
thought there was something very romantic about thunder
storms, I don't know why. So I think as a way to release
some of the tension we started making out. After about 20
minutes the lamp that we had on flickered out as a huge
peal of thunder rolled around us. We froze, scared of
being in the dark in the haunted house. Helen flicked the
other lamps switch but it didn't work. The power was out.
Of course any self-respecting Witch always has candles to
hand! So I lit a few around the room and we felt slightly
better with at least partial light. We had made sure we
had closed and locked all the windows as we planned to
leave first thing, but despite that a huge gust of
freezing wind blew through the room snuffing out all our
candles. My breath caught in my chest as I felt the cold
settle in the room. If I had been able to see I knew I
would see my breath in front of me. I was covered in
goosebumps and could feel Helen shivering in my arms.
Lightening crashed all of a sudden and in the momentary
flash of light we saw splatters of blood on a normally
white wall. Five seconds and another flash and there in
the doorway was the shadow. We heard his evil wheezy
laugh. We slowly became aware of two spots of glowing red.
His eyes, shaking slightly as he laughed his smokers
laugh. Filling the room with evil. We heard his footsteps
slowly crossing the room. I whispered to Helen to
concentrate in a glowing white light surrounding us both,
shielding us from his evil. I did the same. Just as his
laughter stopped another flash of lightening and I saw him
open his mouth wide, and saw too many razor-sharp teeth
fitted in it. I conjured our white light and yelled at
him "Leave us unclean demon, you are forbidden to harm us,
we are protected by the white light that burns your evil
from this place!" The lights came back on, we grabbed our
boots and bags, I grabbed my phone and we ran out of
there, in just our pyjamas, like something was chasing us.
And the laughter was, just as we cleared the threshold of
the house the voice shouted "Better run, I'll eat your
souls if you return." Needless to say we ran until we were
out of that forest.
I phoned a cab from my mobile (unlike
the movies I did have both battery power and signal!) and
we were on our way to a hotel where we phoned everyone,
not that it was appreciated at 4am! We slept fitfully that
night, and for about a month after, my Insomnia had
worsened by a few notches, but we are back to normal now,
and I can firmly say the Helen believes! Don't think We'll
be going on holiday this year!
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