Readers' Stories New Age Tiscali

Back in 1978 my parents bought a General Dealers store. Being great DIY enthusiasts they decided to renovate an old fireplace and after doing so I definitely detected a presence as did our dog.

Ben used to howl outside my bedroom until I let him in. I got to the stage where the presence was so strong I avoided going down to the kitchen at night. Ben would continue to bark at something while standing at the foot of the stairs. One morning I awoke to see a shadow of someone standing looking out of my bedroom window. Eventually my sister thought she saw someone ascend our stairs when she was the only one in the house, and when we had friends to stay I slept in the lounge but at 2am I had to find another place to sleep as the presence was strong and had an element of evil about it.

Ben who always slept close by me refused to lie down and kept growling while looking up at the ceiling.

My mother reported the presence to our local vicar who himself was new to the area and had not heard any tales regardiing the house. What we did establish was that it was once an old police station, before becoming a small boarding house, eventually in the 1940's becoming a General Dealers shop.

The presence eventually disappeared. Whomever or whatever it was left a lingering memory which I have never forgotten, but it has not been my last encounter with ghostly presences although I'm happy to say those more recent have been more benign than a feeling of evil.