in and out of our house. Neighbors just thought we had people staying at our house while we were away and looking after the place. The funny thing was only half the street had seen anything and the other half said they saw nothing. My mum and dad were really worried about all these stories that they called our police. As the police did their investigations, they also found that it was 50/50 with only a 50% seeing something but it was still too many of the same stories for it to be a hoax. As nothing had happened to us directly yet, we tried to get on with things. Until an almost normal Sunday evening, when we were all sat in front room watching 'The Antiques Roadshow' when my mum started to notice a very strong smell of bleach. This ended up getting so strong that she felt it burning the inside of her nose. The really strange thing was, none of us could smell anything at all. Then I remember feeling really cooled, even sat next to an open log fire. Then the coat hanger, hanging on the bird cage that was hanging from the ceiling, started to swing really violently which made our bird go mad. This is all I can remember of that night. Not long after this happened, my sister was having a bath. While the rest of the family was in the garden. She was starting to get out of the bath and she heard some very heavy breathing and dragging feet coming towards the bathroom. As the sound got louder she started to get very scared and ran out of the bathroom without stopping. As she ran onto the landing she knocked into someone or something and heard it fall against the wall but she didn't stop to look back. When they all went back to look they didn't find anything, only what looked like a pattern on the carpet of something dragging their feet....As for the elderly couple, nothing was found out about them and they were never seen again.

If anyone does know anything about the past history of this house 'Freeways, Cheavely, Newbery, Berkshire,' please email me at [email protected]. To this day the the families that move into that house don't seem to live there for longer than a year or so I've been told.
The Watchful Ghost
Submitted by: Jenna Cole (at [email protected])
Submitted: February, 2005.
This is a true story as a lot of my friends and family would tell you. Let me take you back to 1989 when I was in primary school and living with my parents, older brother and sister. As long as I can remember, my family seems to always have paranormal activity going on in the house we are living in and it seems to follow us to the next house. Thank the lord this was to be the last house, or so I thought. It all started when I was at school one day and I was playing with the younger year school group and I saw (what looked like) the end of a very long black cape go past the classroom window. As far as I knew I was the only one who saw this. Thinking nothing of it I never mentioned it again. The stranger thing was, after my experience I saw the end of the cape a few more times but only at school. Then this (so called) black cape I then saw again as I was walking down an old railway track. Now getting a but scared I then told my mum. She said not to worry about it, but that if was something she would keep an eye out. Anyway, a few weeks passed and I started to forget it until one night I was in my room. I had a little black and white television on a seat by my bedroom door. The t.v had little knobs that you had to turn to get each channel. I must of sat in front of it for about 5 minutes trying to find a channel which was strange because I never had trouble finding a channel before. Then my brother came in and stood in the doorway and started chatting to me. I wasn't really looking at him but at the same time trying to sort out the t.v. Then when I did look at him (as my brother describes) I went as white as a sheet and had a terrified look on my face. What I was looking at was a black figure. No face, covered from head to toe in black. It was terrifying and just behind my brother's shoulder. I screamed at the top of my lungs and you can imagine this scared the shit out of my brother. As I screamed the black figure went and it looked like it went into my sister's bedroom (next to mine). My brother didn't believe in ghosts until that night. I can't remember much more about that night but I was only 9 years old. A few weeks passed and I was having a sleep over at my house with two of my friends. My friend Amy and myself were on my bed having a really good laugh. My other friend Nicola was sat at the bottom of my bed talking to us with her back to my open bedroom door, when I saw the black figure again in the doorway looking right at me. Eventhough it had no face I knew it was looking at me. As I screamed it disappeared again, as if screaming at it was scaring it in some way or disappearing because it was scared of it. Not much more was said about it as not many people would have believed a 9 year old girl being haunted by a black figure but talking to my mum about it seemed to help. My mum suggested that it was trying to get my attention or just looking out for me as it didn't seem to want to hurt me but I didn't really like it either way as I doubt many people would have. After that a few more little things happened such as...One night when I was sent to bed, the rest of my family were downstairs. I got into my bed and with my door open I went to sleep. I woke up to a feeling of the end of my duvet being lifted up to reveal my feet. Being frozen with fear I lay as I only could (frozen) and feeling the same thing a few more times. Eventhough this was the type of trick my brother would of pulled, I knew that he couldn't of done this because even the slightest of movement would of made the floor boards creek as the house dates back to the 17th century when it was a public house. All I remember after that was waking up the next morning feeling so glad that it was morning. Also, on my 16th birthday I had a friend staying over. That night  when I was in the bathroom I heard her talking to someone. I left the bathroom and walked into my bedroom expecting to find someone else with her but all I saw was her looking quite shaken. When she calmed down she said she she saw a black figure walking out of the bathroom across the landing. As she thought it was me, she started talking to me but when I didn't walk into the bedroom she walked out onto the landing to see where I was, but I was still in the bathroom. After that night any one of my friends who stayed the night always saw something when they were left on their own. Who knows, it may have been the black figure checking up on them. When I turned 18 I was with a friend of mine in their house and one of their neighbors walked in. As me and the neighbor got talking he just asked me where I was from and I mentioned my parents house. He then asked me if I had heard of the ghost that used to haunt the house and it seemed to look after the children that were there before we moved in? >>>>>>>>>
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