This series of paranormal experiences didn't happen to me,
but to my mother and her colleagues.
For the past 17 years my mother has worked as a social worker in a residential home for mentally
and physically handicapped kids. (I've blanked out the name of the
home in case any current employees object.) Her shifts usually
involved her working from 21:30 until 07:00 and her responsibility
was to supervise kids who needed 24-hour care. For some time
there had been stories of a ghost in the building but it was only
relatively recently that the "entity" (for want of a better word)
actually made its presence known.
It started off with small stuff such as staff not being able to find
personal items where they had left it. More often than not this was
put down to forgetfulness, or someone else moving the stuff, but it
gradually became more and more common. Then, one of my
mum's colleague's was making tea in the kitchen when a clock
flew off the wall and almost hit her. Another colleague entered a
previously locked room to find a swivel chair spinning round and
round on its own, as if a child were sitting on it and playing. It
stopped a few minutes after she set eyes on it. Needless to say,
nobody else was in the room and it would have been impossible
for someone else to set the chair spinning, then run out and lock
the door without being seen leaving the room.
The scariest incident actually took place in the last few months.
Hanging on the wall of the common room is a cupboard containing
spare sets of keys to each of the kids' rooms. One day two
members of staff and one child were in the common room when
they saw the cupboard door swing open of its own accord. Then,
one by one, the keys unhooked themselves from the little hooks
inside and fell to the floor. Once the last one had dropped to the
floor, the cupboard itself unfastened itself from the wall and also
fell to the floor! The two staff members stood there absolutely
transfixed. The funniest thing was that the child looked at both of
them and cried, "It wasn't me! I didn't do it!"
I asked my mother whether any kids had died in the building, and
she said they all suspected it was the ghost of one of their
previous residents, a girl who died aged just 13. But some of her
colleagues think it must be emanating from one or more of the
kids, as apparently so-called poltergeist activity tends to be
present in households with children or teenagers, particularly
those in extreme emotional states. I would love to hear your
opinions and whether you have experienced anything similar!
Contact me here: nemone_sariman@yahoo.co.uk
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