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Thanks for listening and enjoy the episode. 19 00:01:18.840 --> 00:01:22.400 I began to feel very uneasy and sensed that an 20 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.719 extremely unpleasant presence had somehow gained entry to our bedroom. 21 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:30.920 I was completely alone, yet I knew that someone or 22 00:01:31.000 --> 00:01:34.799 something was inside that room with me. As I lay there, 23 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:40.200 completely terrified, I heard what sounded like someone walking past me. 24 00:02:32.960 --> 00:02:36.400 This is episode sixty two of the Haunted UK podcast, 25 00:02:36.800 --> 00:02:39.560 and in this episode we'll hear from a listener whose 26 00:02:39.599 --> 00:02:43.800 experiences with paranormal phenomena over a thirty year period on 27 00:02:43.960 --> 00:03:05.520 nothing short of incredible, chilling, and sometimes very frightening. As 28 00:03:05.560 --> 00:03:08.439 we've heard and been made fully aware of over the 29 00:03:08.439 --> 00:03:16.479 many episodes of this podcast, the paranormal doesn't distinguish by race, religion, culture, language, background, 30 00:03:16.840 --> 00:03:22.360 or profession. It runs riot over borders, affects everyone from 31 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:27.319 police officers to teachers, from airline pilots to cleaners, from 32 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:32.439 courier drivers to surgeons, to name but a few. Many 33 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:36.159 people who are lucky enough or unlucky, depending upon how 34 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:39.719 you look at it, who experience a possible paranormal incident 35 00:03:40.039 --> 00:03:45.319 probably only have one encounter, and this is usually enough 36 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:49.159 for anyone. How do you digest it? How will they 37 00:03:49.240 --> 00:03:52.680 interpret you as a human being? If you speak up? 38 00:03:53.240 --> 00:03:56.000 Would you lose friends or family? Will it alter your 39 00:03:56.039 --> 00:04:00.759 perception of the world around you, your religious beliefs, opinions 40 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:06.159 on life after death. Some sway to even more disbelief, 41 00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:10.319 whilst others see an encounter as an awakening. But it's 42 00:04:10.360 --> 00:04:13.360 safe to say that nobody truly knows how they would 43 00:04:13.400 --> 00:04:17.439 react when confronted by something that should only really exist 44 00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:22.879 in a Hollywood movie. And it's these thoughts, these questions, 45 00:04:23.279 --> 00:04:26.279 that bring us to this episode which you will hear today, 46 00:04:27.319 --> 00:04:31.120 a series of incredible encounters which were all witnessed by 47 00:04:31.160 --> 00:04:37.240 the same person. These strange and sometimes frightening incidents include apparitions, 48 00:04:37.800 --> 00:04:46.279 doppel gangers, poltergeists, precognition, and even lucid dreaming. It begs 49 00:04:46.319 --> 00:04:49.959 the question which we've asked on so many occasions, and 50 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:54.920 it's this, Are some people more susceptible to experience paranormal 51 00:04:55.000 --> 00:05:01.199 encounters than others? Many go through their entire lives completely skeptical, 52 00:05:01.720 --> 00:05:05.360 never encountering anything even remotely strange or unusual. 53 00:05:05.920 --> 00:05:09.000 Yet others, well, they. 54 00:05:08.839 --> 00:05:13.319 Seem to attract these phenomena like magnets. Are they somehow 55 00:05:13.439 --> 00:05:17.120 primed when they are born, given some sort of genetic 56 00:05:17.199 --> 00:05:21.879 trait which is passed down from their families, something which 57 00:05:21.959 --> 00:05:26.959 is as of yet completely unknown and undiscovered. Is there 58 00:05:27.000 --> 00:05:30.399 really such thing as an extra sense, an aspect of 59 00:05:30.519 --> 00:05:35.000 human beings that can somehow tune into these phenomena. It 60 00:05:35.120 --> 00:05:38.360 seems that as children, many of us have imaginary friends, 61 00:05:39.040 --> 00:05:42.199 can see people in places that our parents cannot. Yet 62 00:05:42.240 --> 00:05:45.680 there comes a time when our subconscious mind, or the 63 00:05:45.759 --> 00:05:47.920 area of the brain which is able to pick up 64 00:05:47.920 --> 00:05:53.199 and accept these experiences, begins to shut down. Many of 65 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:56.439 us then continue to live our lives without too much incident. 66 00:05:56.680 --> 00:06:00.399 But for others, these senses have never truly switched off. 67 00:06:01.240 --> 00:06:04.879 They continue to function, maybe as those voices in the 68 00:06:04.920 --> 00:06:07.160 mind that tell you not to go to work on 69 00:06:07.240 --> 00:06:10.800 the train today, or to stay at home and call 70 00:06:10.879 --> 00:06:15.120 in sick because you have a feeling a strange type 71 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:18.839 of nausea that is warning you that something will happen. 72 00:06:19.639 --> 00:06:23.240 And then it does, and it's really only then that 73 00:06:23.319 --> 00:06:27.519 you realize that, maybe, just maybe you're in tune with 74 00:06:27.639 --> 00:06:32.839 something completely extraordinary. The following series of stories sent him 75 00:06:32.879 --> 00:06:37.879 by Ian are just that extraordinary, and we can't thank 76 00:06:37.959 --> 00:06:42.480 him enough for coming forward and sharing his experiences. So 77 00:06:42.519 --> 00:06:50.120 settle down, get comfortable, and we'll let Ian continue. Hi, Steve, 78 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:53.600 I just wanted to say your podcast goes from strength 79 00:06:53.639 --> 00:06:57.759 to strength with each series. I listened to Danny Robbins 80 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:01.360 and Ghost Huns podcasts, and after her about yours, I 81 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:05.839 went to listen straight away and I wasn't disappointed, and 82 00:07:05.879 --> 00:07:08.519 I felt the urge to write in as I thought 83 00:07:08.560 --> 00:07:11.600 you and the listeners would be interested in hearing some 84 00:07:11.759 --> 00:07:15.079 of the strange experiences I've had over a span of 85 00:07:15.160 --> 00:07:21.800 around thirty years and counting. Altogether, these incidents make up 86 00:07:21.800 --> 00:07:24.839 for quite a long story, and they contain many different 87 00:07:24.879 --> 00:07:29.079 elements of the paranormal, from pre cognitive dreams all the 88 00:07:29.120 --> 00:07:35.560 way to terrifying poltergeist activity. I've broken these experiences down 89 00:07:35.639 --> 00:07:38.839 to individual cases, as I feel that this is the 90 00:07:38.879 --> 00:07:41.720 best way to separate the blocks of incidents as they 91 00:07:41.839 --> 00:07:46.360 happen through various periods of time. I hope some or 92 00:07:46.399 --> 00:07:49.600 all of my stories resonate with the listeners and give 93 00:07:49.680 --> 00:07:53.839 others the confidence to share their experiences. So with all 94 00:07:53.920 --> 00:08:01.639 that said, let's go case one the beginning. I wanted 95 00:08:01.680 --> 00:08:04.680 to start off by talking about my own experiences with 96 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:09.360 the paranormal, which all started back in October nineteen ninety four. 97 00:08:10.360 --> 00:08:13.079 At the time, I was nine years old and lived 98 00:08:13.079 --> 00:08:15.920 with my parents and two brothers on the outskirts of 99 00:08:15.959 --> 00:08:20.920 Southampton in an area called Calmore. The family home was 100 00:08:20.959 --> 00:08:24.240 built in the nineteen seventies and my parents moved in 101 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:28.600 May nineteen eighty one. In nineteen ninety four, i'd been 102 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:31.279 in hospital and it was my first night back at 103 00:08:31.279 --> 00:08:35.919 home after having my right ear operated on. I shared 104 00:08:35.919 --> 00:08:39.080 a bedroom with my twin brother SI, which overlooked the 105 00:08:39.120 --> 00:08:42.600 back of the house. I woke up at about three 106 00:08:42.639 --> 00:08:45.799 am due to the pain and drumming sound in my ear, 107 00:08:46.440 --> 00:08:50.720 and my brother was sound asleep. Despite the sound in 108 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:55.200 my ear, the room still felt quiet, somehow, quieter and 109 00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:59.240 colder than usual. I got myself to sleep, laying on 110 00:08:59.320 --> 00:09:02.679 my back with my arms outside the covers, and as 111 00:09:02.720 --> 00:09:05.840 I was about to drop off, I felt something take 112 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:10.240 my wrists and I was pulled up and down. This 113 00:09:10.320 --> 00:09:14.519 happened around four times, with my heart racing. I opened 114 00:09:14.519 --> 00:09:18.200 my eyes, turned and looked at my brother. He was 115 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:22.320 tucked up in his bed, still fast asleep. I checked 116 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:26.480 the bedroom door, which was still clothed, so I knew 117 00:09:26.600 --> 00:09:29.679 no one had come in. Even if they had, why 118 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:33.279 would anyone do that? I don't know what happened that night, 119 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:38.639 and to this day it still haunts me. Moving forward 120 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.279 to March nineteen ninety five, and I woke up again 121 00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:46.519 at around three am. So I was snoring in his 122 00:09:46.639 --> 00:09:49.799 bed and out of ten minutes, I couldn't get to sleep. 123 00:09:50.440 --> 00:09:53.519 I couldn't get comfortable and the snoring was keeping me awake. 124 00:09:54.639 --> 00:09:57.480 I rolled onto my left side, but again I just 125 00:09:57.519 --> 00:10:00.720 couldn't seem to get comfortable. I didn't want to sleep 126 00:10:00.759 --> 00:10:03.279 on my right side as the snoring was really loud, 127 00:10:03.799 --> 00:10:05.559 and I didn't want to lay on my back due 128 00:10:05.600 --> 00:10:09.799 to the horrible experience I had in October. With reluctance, 129 00:10:10.480 --> 00:10:13.440 I rolled onto my back and the only way to 130 00:10:13.519 --> 00:10:16.919 describe it was the ceiling of my room was replaced 131 00:10:16.960 --> 00:10:21.600 by the most beautiful, starry sky I'd ever seen. I 132 00:10:21.639 --> 00:10:24.559 know it sounds completely surreal and out there, but it 133 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:28.679 was simply amazing. The sky was a rich, deep purple color, 134 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.080 getting lighter, changing in color as it got further out, 135 00:10:33.600 --> 00:10:36.440 where it met a cloud which was encasing the sky 136 00:10:36.559 --> 00:10:39.840 in a circle. It was then that I noticed it 137 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:43.559 was extremely quiet and I couldn't hear my brother snoring. 138 00:10:44.519 --> 00:10:45.480 I was just in. 139 00:10:45.440 --> 00:10:50.759 Awe and it felt peaceful. It was a definite step 140 00:10:50.879 --> 00:10:54.039 up from what happened in October. I don't know how 141 00:10:54.120 --> 00:10:56.960 long I was staring at the sky for, but for 142 00:10:57.039 --> 00:11:00.960 a while after it began to grow darker, the clouds 143 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.879 started to cover the sky, shrinking this strange but beautiful 144 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:09.519 view to the size of a small circle. I blinked 145 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.960 and the ceiling had returned to normal. I was one 146 00:11:13.039 --> 00:11:17.399 hundred percent awake, and I know what I saw, and 147 00:11:17.519 --> 00:11:24.840 it was beautiful. Case two, What's above your head? What's 148 00:11:24.879 --> 00:11:28.840 at the end of your bed? In the summer of 149 00:11:28.919 --> 00:11:31.720 nineteen ninety five, my brother and I were moved to 150 00:11:31.759 --> 00:11:35.120 the front bedroom of the house. I can only guess 151 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:37.879 that this was because my parents wanted a bigger bedroom, 152 00:11:38.080 --> 00:11:44.159 so unfortunately we were the casualties. Despite it being a 153 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:47.240 smaller bedroom. I was kind of happy to move because 154 00:11:47.240 --> 00:11:50.799 of those experiences in the back bedroom, and I really 155 00:11:50.960 --> 00:11:55.080 wasn't expecting any kind of repeat performance. At least I 156 00:11:55.240 --> 00:12:00.440 hoped for that peace at last, or at least it 157 00:12:00.600 --> 00:12:04.679 was to start with. Around a month later, Sy and 158 00:12:04.759 --> 00:12:07.600 I were in our beds, and some short time after 159 00:12:07.600 --> 00:12:11.519 we'd both settled down, we heard boxes being moved along 160 00:12:11.559 --> 00:12:17.080 the boards in the loft. We thought it was a 161 00:12:17.080 --> 00:12:20.799 bit strange at that time of night, Why would somebody 162 00:12:20.840 --> 00:12:23.200 be in the loft moving things around so late in 163 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:27.000 the evening. In the morning, we asked our mum if 164 00:12:27.120 --> 00:12:29.360 Dad had been in the loft in the night, and 165 00:12:29.440 --> 00:12:32.559 told her what we'd heard. She looked at us and 166 00:12:32.600 --> 00:12:35.200 said that he hadn't been up there, and the loft 167 00:12:35.200 --> 00:12:40.120 didn't have boards, it was just beams and insulation, So 168 00:12:40.879 --> 00:12:46.240 what was making those noises? Who or what had been 169 00:12:46.360 --> 00:12:51.080 up there. In October that year, I had another operation, 170 00:12:51.440 --> 00:12:54.799 but this time on my left ear. On my first 171 00:12:54.879 --> 00:12:57.559 night back home, I had just gone into bed, and 172 00:12:57.600 --> 00:13:01.120 all I could hear was the drumming noise in my ear. This, 173 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:04.320 coupled with the pain, was doing a damn good job 174 00:13:04.360 --> 00:13:07.600 of keeping me awake. I was lying on my right 175 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:11.600 side and I couldn't hear my surroundings at all, such 176 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:14.559 as the clock ticking. All I could hear was that 177 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:19.360 constant drumming noise beating away inside my ear, inside my brain. 178 00:13:20.919 --> 00:13:23.759 I don't know if because of this my other senses 179 00:13:23.799 --> 00:13:27.399 became heightened, but I began to develop an odd feeling, 180 00:13:28.039 --> 00:13:31.759 a strange sensation, as if the covers at the bottom 181 00:13:31.759 --> 00:13:37.240 of the bed were being moved. Then, terrifyingly, it felt 182 00:13:37.240 --> 00:13:39.759 as if hands were coming up from under the covers 183 00:13:40.200 --> 00:13:43.679 trying to touch my feet. I raised my head and 184 00:13:43.799 --> 00:13:46.440 asked SI where he was in the room, thinking that 185 00:13:46.480 --> 00:13:49.360 he was trying to prank me. He said he was 186 00:13:49.399 --> 00:13:51.600 in bed, but I asked him to wave a hand 187 00:13:51.639 --> 00:13:54.440 at me to give me some sort of proof. SI 188 00:13:54.600 --> 00:13:56.679 began to wave at me, and I could see this 189 00:13:56.799 --> 00:14:01.679 against the curtains. He was definitely in bed, but alarmingly, 190 00:14:01.960 --> 00:14:07.799 I could still feel the covers slowly moving. Praying that 191 00:14:07.840 --> 00:14:11.000 this was just the one off experience, I curled my 192 00:14:11.120 --> 00:14:13.480 legs up to move away from whatever was trying to 193 00:14:13.519 --> 00:14:17.879 grab hold of me. This strange and frightening incident continued 194 00:14:17.919 --> 00:14:21.399 to repeat itself on and off for many years, always 195 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:23.919 at the point when I just got into bed for 196 00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:28.200 the night. Even to this day, I always sleep with 197 00:14:28.240 --> 00:14:31.840 my arms under the covers on my side, with my 198 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:36.360 legs curled in, and I make sure that I have 199 00:14:36.480 --> 00:14:43.200 my covers tucked under the mattress case. Three A close 200 00:14:43.279 --> 00:14:49.039 shave in nineteen ninety six, just for context, we'd move 201 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:52.039 the bedroom around and my bed was now by the window. 202 00:14:52.879 --> 00:14:55.200 There was a gap between the beds and we had 203 00:14:55.200 --> 00:14:59.240 a bedside cabinet with our radio, clock and lamps on. 204 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.120 On the other side of the room, we had a 205 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:04.039 TV that was central to us, so we could both 206 00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:08.279 view it equally. I remember us being fans of Wallace 207 00:15:08.320 --> 00:15:11.480 and Grommit, and we even had a poster above the TV. 208 00:15:12.720 --> 00:15:13.159 It was the. 209 00:15:13.120 --> 00:15:16.320 Image of them when Wallace was riding the motorcycle and 210 00:15:16.399 --> 00:15:19.080 Grommitt was in the sidecar and they were going to 211 00:15:19.240 --> 00:15:23.159 wash windows. They even had a ladder attached to the sidecar. 212 00:15:25.679 --> 00:15:29.000 During the early hours, at around two to three AM, 213 00:15:29.120 --> 00:15:31.720 I woke up to the rustling sound of the poster 214 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:34.879 and saw my brother try to put it back up. 215 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:38.480 This was so odd because this poster had been up 216 00:15:38.519 --> 00:15:42.159 with no problems for months. It easily had enough blue 217 00:15:42.240 --> 00:15:44.399 tack on it to keep the poster to the wall, 218 00:15:44.720 --> 00:15:48.200 and there was no wind that night. In hindsight and 219 00:15:48.279 --> 00:15:52.799 thinking about it now, the room felt eerie, very still. 220 00:15:53.919 --> 00:15:57.679 The poster rustled again, but louder this time, and I 221 00:15:57.720 --> 00:16:01.480 can remember thinking, he's really struggling here to put that 222 00:16:01.600 --> 00:16:04.480 back up, and I could see the underside of the 223 00:16:04.480 --> 00:16:09.320 poster going up and down, up and down. Then something 224 00:16:09.600 --> 00:16:13.960 very disturbing happened, something that I still struggle to come 225 00:16:14.000 --> 00:16:19.279 to terms with even to this day. It must be 226 00:16:19.320 --> 00:16:23.000 a twin thing. But in a split second, we both 227 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:26.919 asked each other the same question, what do you do it? 228 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:28.799 And then both of. 229 00:16:28.799 --> 00:16:31.320 Us replying I'm in bed, I'm in bed. 230 00:16:32.440 --> 00:16:37.960 Instinctively, we both counted free two one, and then turned 231 00:16:37.960 --> 00:16:41.519 our lamps on at the same time. We both then 232 00:16:41.600 --> 00:16:46.120 watched that poster fall back down, coming to rest over 233 00:16:46.159 --> 00:16:52.399 the TV. What had just happened, well, what had happened 234 00:16:52.480 --> 00:16:55.440 was this, we had both woken up at the same time. 235 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:58.200 We both thought that each other was trying to put 236 00:16:58.200 --> 00:17:01.799 the poster back up, and both of us actually saw 237 00:17:01.960 --> 00:17:05.759 each other put it back up, followed by us both 238 00:17:05.839 --> 00:17:09.440 watching it fall from the wall. We still don't know 239 00:17:09.839 --> 00:17:14.839 who we saw, who was struggling with that poster, and 240 00:17:14.920 --> 00:17:19.400 that is such a frightening thought that someone or something 241 00:17:19.880 --> 00:17:23.400 was in our room with us. With us both being 242 00:17:23.440 --> 00:17:26.599 freaked out by the experience, we took the poster down 243 00:17:26.680 --> 00:17:32.279 permanently and never put it back up again. Case four 244 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:38.880 The Past, the Presence and the Future Part one. Throughout 245 00:17:38.880 --> 00:17:41.680 the rest of the late nineteen nineties, my brother and 246 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:45.079 I experienced a strange presence in our home many times 247 00:17:46.079 --> 00:17:49.039 regularly we would have a feeling of dread wash over us, 248 00:17:49.240 --> 00:17:52.240 and it wasn't long before other strange occurrences began to 249 00:17:52.279 --> 00:17:57.519 take place, the extremely eerie sensation of someone or something 250 00:17:57.920 --> 00:18:02.319 brushing past us, the unmistakable feeling of the weight of 251 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:06.599 a person sitting down on our beds, And every single 252 00:18:06.680 --> 00:18:09.680 time incidents such as these would occur, our room would 253 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:15.839 always become cold, still eerily quiet, like the time with 254 00:18:15.920 --> 00:18:20.240 the poster. I remember once my mum being unwell and 255 00:18:20.319 --> 00:18:23.160 in bed. My dad was at work, and my two 256 00:18:23.200 --> 00:18:27.920 brothers and I were downstairs watching TV. I distinctly recall 257 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.839 becoming very angry at my brothers and deciding to go 258 00:18:30.960 --> 00:18:34.680 to bed. I walked into our room and closed the door, 259 00:18:35.039 --> 00:18:40.119 then got into bed and turned the lamp off. Almost immediately, 260 00:18:40.640 --> 00:18:44.119 I noticed that the room was completely void of all sound, 261 00:18:44.920 --> 00:18:47.880 as if somebody had turned the volume of reality all 262 00:18:48.000 --> 00:18:51.480 the way down. I also quickly became aware that the 263 00:18:51.559 --> 00:18:54.200 room seemed much darker than it normally would have been, 264 00:18:55.200 --> 00:18:58.000 so dark, in fact, that I couldn't even see the 265 00:18:58.079 --> 00:19:02.039 landing light through the crack of the door. I began 266 00:19:02.079 --> 00:19:06.720 to feel very uneasy and sense that an extremely unpleasant 267 00:19:06.799 --> 00:19:10.880 presence had somehow gained entry to our bedroom. I was 268 00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:14.480 completely alone, yet I knew that someone or something was 269 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:19.720 inside that room with me. As I lay there, completely terrified, 270 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:24.960 I heard what sounded like someone walking past me, and 271 00:19:25.000 --> 00:19:28.480 then felt a puff of cool air hid my face. 272 00:19:30.359 --> 00:19:32.440 I knew for a fact that the window was shut, 273 00:19:32.799 --> 00:19:35.920 so it definitely couldn't have been the wind or a draft. 274 00:19:37.119 --> 00:19:39.880 I then both felt and heard the brushing sound of 275 00:19:39.920 --> 00:19:44.039 something against my bed covers. It was coming from the 276 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:47.160 bottom of my bed. It was then that I felt 277 00:19:47.160 --> 00:19:51.079 the covers moving at my feet. I summoned up the 278 00:19:51.079 --> 00:19:55.759 courage and switched the lamp on. The feelings of unease 279 00:19:55.799 --> 00:19:59.240 and terror quickly went away. I then got out of bed, 280 00:19:59.319 --> 00:20:03.720 got dressed, and went back downstairs after my mum was 281 00:20:03.720 --> 00:20:06.519 feeling better. A couple of days later, I mentioned for 282 00:20:06.559 --> 00:20:10.119 the first time about the experiences I was having. I 283 00:20:10.200 --> 00:20:12.880 recounted the time I was being pulled up and down 284 00:20:12.960 --> 00:20:16.759 in my bed back in my old bedroom, the different 285 00:20:16.839 --> 00:20:19.799 incidents which my brother and I were now experiencing in 286 00:20:19.880 --> 00:20:24.880 our current bedroom. It was then and only then that 287 00:20:25.000 --> 00:20:28.000 she told me that she was also having her own 288 00:20:28.119 --> 00:20:33.279 strange experiences. She mentioned that on one particular evening, while 289 00:20:33.319 --> 00:20:36.200 she was in bed, she heard the bedroom door open 290 00:20:36.920 --> 00:20:40.839 and felt someone get into bed next to her. The 291 00:20:40.920 --> 00:20:44.880 creepy thing about this incident was this my dad was 292 00:20:44.920 --> 00:20:49.400 at work at the time, so she was alone. 293 00:20:49.480 --> 00:20:50.079 She said she. 294 00:20:50.039 --> 00:20:53.200 Wanted to scream, but was so overwhelmed and frozen with 295 00:20:53.319 --> 00:20:57.440 terror that she simply couldn't. Whatever this thing was that 296 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:00.559 was lying next to her in bed, it radiant, an 297 00:21:00.559 --> 00:21:04.720 ominous presence, and she couldn't bear it. But she also 298 00:21:04.799 --> 00:21:10.680 couldn't move. It felt real, solid, something that wasn't going away. 299 00:21:11.559 --> 00:21:13.960 The strange thing is that my mum and dad were 300 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:16.359 now in the bedroom where my brother and I used 301 00:21:16.359 --> 00:21:19.640 to be, and my mom was sleeping in the exact 302 00:21:19.680 --> 00:21:22.240 same spot that I used to when I was in 303 00:21:22.279 --> 00:21:26.319 that room. And if that wasn't enough, my dad also 304 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.160 mentioned that he'd woken up to find the figure of 305 00:21:29.160 --> 00:21:33.039 a female standing at the side of the bed without 306 00:21:33.079 --> 00:21:33.640 a face. 307 00:21:34.079 --> 00:21:34.960 Oh my god. 308 00:21:35.759 --> 00:21:39.240 Deeply horrifying if you ask me. But these experiences weren't 309 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:42.680 limited to our bedrooms. They began to spread to other 310 00:21:42.759 --> 00:21:46.200 areas of the house. In the bathroom, my mum has 311 00:21:46.240 --> 00:21:49.880 been poked in the back numerous times, then there's the kitchen. 312 00:21:50.799 --> 00:21:54.079 We've felt cold air brush past us when all windows 313 00:21:54.079 --> 00:21:57.519 and doors are closed, and there's also a definite sense 314 00:21:57.519 --> 00:22:00.599 of a presence in there. Whether it's the same one 315 00:22:00.640 --> 00:22:04.680 as upstairs, I'm not sure, but it'll position itself behind us, 316 00:22:05.200 --> 00:22:07.759 making the hair on the backs of our necks stand up. 317 00:22:08.960 --> 00:22:13.240 In the lounge, we've witnessed the curtain waving by itself again. 318 00:22:13.799 --> 00:22:16.799 There have been no windows open, and everybody else in 319 00:22:16.839 --> 00:22:19.559 the room at that time has been sat down, so 320 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:26.240 they couldn't have caused it to move. Case four, The Past, Present, 321 00:22:26.599 --> 00:22:31.880 and the Future Part two. Fast forward now to two 322 00:22:31.880 --> 00:22:34.720 thousand and one, and all had been quiet and normal 323 00:22:34.759 --> 00:22:37.519 for a while, but it didn't stay that way for long. 324 00:22:38.759 --> 00:22:41.720 It was around March time and I'd had two dreams, 325 00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:46.279 both of which were quite disturbing. They depicted airplanes crashing 326 00:22:46.319 --> 00:22:49.039 into buildings, and at the time I didn't know what 327 00:22:49.079 --> 00:22:52.039 the buildings were, but what struck in my mind the 328 00:22:52.119 --> 00:22:55.599 most was one particular part of the building, which was 329 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:59.279 sticking out of the rubble. I didn't see this image 330 00:22:59.279 --> 00:23:04.440 again until the aftermath of nine eleven, almost six months 331 00:23:04.480 --> 00:23:06.559 after I'd had those dreams. 332 00:23:07.039 --> 00:23:07.839 There I was. 333 00:23:08.519 --> 00:23:11.680 Staring at the harrowing image of the wrecked steel structure 334 00:23:11.720 --> 00:23:14.880 of the World Trade Center, a former icon of the 335 00:23:14.920 --> 00:23:19.319 New York Skyline jutting out of the devastation which surrounded them, 336 00:23:20.160 --> 00:23:24.359 laid bare on the front page of the newspaper. I 337 00:23:24.480 --> 00:23:28.920 shuddered and wondered what was happening to me. In November, 338 00:23:29.079 --> 00:23:32.240 I woke up again from another vivid dream, one that 339 00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:36.160 I'll never forget. I spoke with my mum just after 340 00:23:36.200 --> 00:23:38.759 my dream in the morning where I had the dream 341 00:23:38.799 --> 00:23:42.039 that my Nan wasn't well and according to the dream, 342 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:45.720 the outcome wasn't going to be good. I told her 343 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:49.640 that we that's my immediate family. Grandad, my uncle, and 344 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:52.440 his partner at the time, were all in the back lounge, 345 00:23:52.680 --> 00:23:57.240 but Nan wasn't there and we were all upset. My 346 00:23:57.359 --> 00:24:00.200 mum replied, well, that's not going to happen now, and 347 00:24:00.200 --> 00:24:04.759 Granddad haven't spoken to Dad since nineteen ninety six. This 348 00:24:04.960 --> 00:24:07.880 was because of some harsh chosen words said by my 349 00:24:08.039 --> 00:24:12.079 dad towards my grandparents when my parents temporarily split up. 350 00:24:13.119 --> 00:24:15.960 Two weeks after that dream, my family and I went 351 00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:19.960 into Southampton to do some late night Christmas shopping. My 352 00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:22.640 mum received a phone call from her brother saying that 353 00:24:22.759 --> 00:24:25.160 Nan had been stuck on the stairs and couldn't move. 354 00:24:26.160 --> 00:24:29.680 The doctor believed she dislocated her hip and was being 355 00:24:29.720 --> 00:24:34.839 taken to hospital. Thankfully, she hadn't dislocated her hip, but 356 00:24:34.960 --> 00:24:40.359 was diagnosed as being borderline diabetic. Strangely, I couldn't settle 357 00:24:40.519 --> 00:24:42.720 and was concerned that it was something more because of 358 00:24:42.759 --> 00:24:47.440 the dream I'd had. Christmas and New Year came and went, 359 00:24:48.079 --> 00:24:51.640 and the January Blues were in full swing. What's more, 360 00:24:52.039 --> 00:24:55.559 my NaN's health was slowly deteriorating and we were all 361 00:24:55.599 --> 00:25:00.240 becoming very worried. My dad made amends with myn and 362 00:25:00.279 --> 00:25:03.559 Grandad and we started visiting them more during this time. 363 00:25:05.359 --> 00:25:08.279 It was now Monday, the twenty first of January twenty 364 00:25:08.319 --> 00:25:11.640 twenty two, and I was walking home from college and 365 00:25:11.720 --> 00:25:14.640 I saw my brother Mike on his bicycle, returning to 366 00:25:14.720 --> 00:25:18.279 work from his lunch at home. He looked pale and 367 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:21.720 had been clearly upset. He told me that the doctors 368 00:25:21.720 --> 00:25:23.599 had been to see how Nan and she had been 369 00:25:23.640 --> 00:25:27.839 diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and didn't have long left to live. 370 00:25:28.839 --> 00:25:31.119 My heart sank, and the only thing I said to 371 00:25:31.200 --> 00:25:34.079 him was she isn't going to make it to the weekend. 372 00:25:35.279 --> 00:25:38.039 I have no idea what made me say that, but 373 00:25:38.119 --> 00:25:40.799 I just knew she wasn't going to make it to Saturday. 374 00:25:41.799 --> 00:25:44.880 I skipped college on Thursday because, to be honest, I 375 00:25:45.000 --> 00:25:47.160 wasn't in the right frame of mind to learn anything. 376 00:25:48.119 --> 00:25:50.200 I just wanted to spend what time I had with 377 00:25:50.240 --> 00:25:54.359 my Nan. Around lunchtime, I was sitting in the chair 378 00:25:54.400 --> 00:25:56.960 and felt a bit giddy, so my great aunt got 379 00:25:57.039 --> 00:26:00.319 me a kick kat and a sugary TEA. Look over 380 00:26:00.319 --> 00:26:02.880 at my Nan, who was lying in this hospital bed 381 00:26:02.880 --> 00:26:06.559 in her lounge and noticed this shadow cast over her head. 382 00:26:07.799 --> 00:26:10.440 There wasn't anything there to cast this shadow, so I 383 00:26:10.559 --> 00:26:14.920 was slightly confused. I also saw an electric blue spark 384 00:26:14.960 --> 00:26:18.920 at the bottom of her bed. I later googled these 385 00:26:18.960 --> 00:26:21.559 experiences to see if there was any meaning to them, 386 00:26:22.039 --> 00:26:25.440 and both pointed to psychics who see these phenomena in 387 00:26:25.559 --> 00:26:30.119 cancer and the end of life patience. My Nan sadly 388 00:26:30.119 --> 00:26:33.319 passed away on Friday morning at around twelve twenty five 389 00:26:33.319 --> 00:26:36.240 a m. Even though I was there when she took 390 00:26:36.240 --> 00:26:39.160 her final breath, I never took the chance to say 391 00:26:39.160 --> 00:26:43.200 goodbye or to say that I loved her. I guess 392 00:26:43.240 --> 00:26:45.680 I was just numb and in shock from her passing. 393 00:26:46.480 --> 00:26:49.039 It was only when the undertakers took her away that 394 00:26:49.200 --> 00:26:51.440 I realized that we were all in the back room 395 00:26:52.319 --> 00:26:56.079 exactly how it was in my dream. Was this another 396 00:26:56.119 --> 00:27:01.559 premonition of the future or just a coincidence. As a 397 00:27:01.599 --> 00:27:04.920 side note, what was noticeable and weird was the change 398 00:27:04.920 --> 00:27:08.680 in weather, gray and cold throughout the day, and the 399 00:27:08.759 --> 00:27:13.039 evening wet and windy. It was around ten pm. My 400 00:27:13.160 --> 00:27:16.000 dad and the two brothers went home, but I wanted 401 00:27:16.000 --> 00:27:20.240