Part 0800.0005

[meezers]

My parents came to visit today and told me what happened to my brother when he was down his local yesterday. This is an old pub- The Bell, in the town of Leominster.

My brother was stood by the bar with his drink, two other couples were near him, all of a sudden they were aware of a puddle of water forming around their feet, deep enough for their shoes to get wet.He looked up at the ceiling, but nothing was coming through, while they were exclaiming over it, it disappeared , leaving their shoes and floor dry He said the whole thing lasted 30 - 40 seconds . He had only had one drink, and the people beside him had only just arrived.

This is the same pub where tankards fly off the shelves when no one is nearby and my cousin was pushed off her stool when there was no one close enough to touch her

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[Ain't Nobody Here]

[grracee]

Oh, leominster, only 20 mins from me! Sounds abit spooky!

[Space Chick]

I love a good haunting

[LuckyChickenLover-]

How strange

[Alis girls]

OOooh er - think i'll give it a miss - easily spooked I am. How odd.

[BeckyBoo]

I'll have a pint of what he had!!

 

Seriously though, be interesting to look up the history of the pub and it's location...

 

BeckyBoo

[Space Chick]

I agree, it would interesting to know why the haunting applies

[Seagazer]

Yes I think we need to know the full story now. How very strange.

[Cinnamon]

I find things like this fascinating

 

In my youth,I was part of a drama group & we put on a production of Pilgrims Progress in the Kenton Theatre,Henley.

Anyhow,we were rehearsing one day & came off stage & began chatting about the performance & the theatre,which is a wonderful old place.

Someone mentioned the woman in the balcony who had been watching our rehearsal & wondered if she was someones Mum - we had all noticed her,but the owner said that the theatre balcony area had been locked........................our production manager then told us after our main performance that evening that it was the infamous Kenton ghost we had seen & that she didn't tell us before as she hadn't wanted to freak us out. She apparently always sits in the same seat & is often seen watching rehersals

[Seagazer]

Wow I wonder if she minds sharing the seat during actual performances with an audience.

 

I saw and felt a shadowy shape late at night sitting on the bottom of my bed (I was about 19/20) and they were smoking. I thought it was my boyfriend (now hubby) and that I'd fallen asleep or something. I got up and got them an ashtray and placed on bedside cupboard at foot of my bed. It was there in the morning and I never normally had it so close to the bed.

 

About 8 years later I and some of my family went to see a medium in London (large place in Kensington) and my sister went first. He said to her to tell me that my Nan said thanks for the ash tray

 

I have to say it spooked me for ages after that. Now I think its quite nice. She came at quite a troubled time in my life.

[Tiggy]

oooh how spooky, would be great to know what has happened there in the past

[Goosey Lucy]

[Alis girls]

Used to smell cigarette smoke in kitchen of our old house and the CD switched itself on and off at random. Never felt scared - not sure which of my family it would be or OH's so concluded it was one of the people who lived there before.

[WarrensWorld]

Our house was completely rebuilt and extended in 1997. Well all that was left was the walls. No one not even the builders ever smoked in the house. Every now and again we get the distinct smell of pipe smoke. Tom the last owner smoked a pipe, he died in 1995. The Dogs seem to stare at something we can't see, but they don't seem scared at all.

 

I used to haunt 'The Friend at Hand' just off Russell Square..............

[Seagazer]

We have one in our current house, we've named him Frank. Lots of things turn on and off like lights and taps etc. The cats always look upstairs at the same time.

 

I've written before but one day when everyone else was out, my DD's chair thats on wheels could be heard moving about in her bedroom (we have wooden floors everywhere). We think he's friendly though and I wonder if he will go once all the kids are grown up as I think it has a lot to do with childrens/teenagers inner energy.

 

YS used to see ghosts in the garden and house, he told my mum about them when he was about 2 or 3, he didn't know why my mum couldn't see them. He doesn't remember anything about them now.

 

OH's cousin when he was younger used to tell his mum about his time as a soldier in some war a couple of hundred years ago. He used to give her lots of information. Whether this was just fancifull dreaming or reading things who knows. Very interesting though.

[bluekarin]

 

I used to haunt 'The Friend at Hand' just off Russell Square..............

 

Spooky! My brother is a chef in Hotel Russel, and I think this is that same pub he goes in for a swift pint or two after his shifts before he heads home. Maybe you knew each other.

[WarrensWorld]

 

I used to haunt 'The Friend at Hand' just off Russell Square..............

 

Spooky! My brother is a chef in Hotel Russel, and I think this is that same pub he goes in for a swift pint or two after his shifts before he heads home. Maybe you knew each other.

Well I shared a flat in Clerkenwell with the second chef from the Tavistock Hotel. The Friend at Hand was our local we all used to meet there. I was working in Grays Inn rd, and I used to go out with a silver service waitress she worked in the Bedford Hotel. Small world.

[craftyhunnypie]

At the time ghosts spook you. But I find it quite nice & heart warming getting ' signs' & messages in strange ways.

We had a 'sign' from a dove on the windowsill of the hospital when hubby's dad died. It was very comforting.

I also saw a figure outside the methodist church on our journey home - when his mum died.

I've also seen an old man at the side of the road - don't know who that was.

All my family have seen the ghost dog at my parents house - that is quite lovely. You just see the swish / wag of a king charles spaniels tail.

We live in a 1930's house & we have a ghost called Mary / Mrs Hilton. It's the old lady who lived here before us. She is lovely & friendly - but also likes having a joke. She protects us from danger, I'm sure. As sometimes something happens to delay us from going on our journey . Then later we find that there's been an accident.

She helps us if we are doing a job. It may not be the right tool, but it always does the job & you've never seen for example these screws before, that suddenly turn up. A pot of tacks in a glass jar rolled onto the garage floor once - just what hubby needed to felt the shed roof & it was the only glass jar in the garage. It didn't break either. She likes it when we do homely things like baking / crafting. We usually get a bump in the night when we've done something she approves of. I've often seen her white curly hair go past the window - but that's all I see.

Oh & she has a thing for keys. She hides them - then they mysteriously turn up where they should be.

Mrs Hilton is part of our family really.

Emma.x

[Lewis]

 

My aunt + uncle live in a house that was built on the site of an old Dr's surgery (where my Mom used to work) and they've had kitchen cupboard doors open then shut, and glasses slide across the work surfaces.

They've been pinned to the bed too, which would be quite scary

 

The little girl next door used to talk and point at "lady" when she was really little ... kind of freaked her mom out at the time, but apparently an old lady died there a few years ago...

[Space Chick]

I have always been able to sense ghosts

 

My family have also contacted me with messages from beyond, and my dearly departed Nan used to open my back door all the time

[Treekeeper]

I'm looking after an empty building within my property portfolio at the moment I was down in the basement the other day armed only with a torch as the lighting controls are turned off when someone whistled in my ear. I thought I had imagined it until I left an insurance inspector alone while I went to turn the light controls on when I got back he was visibly agitated and said that someone had come up behind him and whistled directly in his ear he was quite shaken. When I got back to head office I was relating the tale to my team and one of the guys said oh don't worry it's only Joe the ghost of a worker who was killed when the building was going up apparently he fell from the top floor into the basement before all the floors were in and quite often used to whistle in peoples ears in the basement!!!!