| The Girl at the Window by: Tom Slemen |
| It's Strange how many ghosts seem to re-enact the things they accries out when they were alive. I remember many years ago, how people in a certain district of Liverpool reported hearing the whistle and humming of the milkman during winter mornings. Nothing strange with that you may think, except that the milkman in question had died three years earlier, yet many people including the man who replaced the deceased milkman- all heard his distinctive whistle and singinf for a number of weeks. Another case of a phantom that went through its old pre-death routine was reported here in Liverpool in the 1970's. In December of 1978, the new owners of a semi-detached house on ChildWall Valley Road- a young couple named Jayne and Kieran- thought they had finally found their dream home. The neighbors found that couple, who were both in their twenties, very agreeable, and an elderly man who lived next door even helped out with the decorating. The man's name was Billy Ellison. Billy was stripping the wallpaper in the front room late one evening, when he saw a woman in a dark green dress come to the window. She startled Billy, and he almost fell off the ladder. The girl very pale-faced and had long reddish-brown hair. She ignored Billy and glanced through the window panes. Before Billy could get a proper look at the woman's face, she moved away, back into the darkness. Billy looked out the window and saw no one. Just the empty front drive in the moonlight. The gate was closed, yet he had not heard the visitor close it. Later that night, Kieran and Jayne returned returned from the local pub and Billy told them about the lady who had visited. Billy assumed she had been a friend of the couple, but neither Jayne nor Kieran knew anyone of the stranger's description. On the following night, Kieran was fitting a carpet in the front room, when he suddenly heard someone tap the window. At firsthe thought it was Jayne, and he glanced up and saw a girl. "What do you want?" he asked the night visitor. The girl burst into tears and said, " Simon I knew you'd come back." Then she moved away like a blur. she seemed to flit away like a leaf in a gale. Understandably, Kieran was shocked. He told Jayne about the ghost, and Billy who realisedhe had seen it too the night before. As the three of them stood in the front room, they all noticed a woman's shadow on the drawn curtains. Billy bravely pulled back the curtains, and there was the lady in the green dress. She was standing there, wringing her hands in a sad expression. "Oh my God!" Billy exclaimed, and the figure was suddenly not there. Billy said he recongised the phantom. It was the ghost of a girl name Moria, who died in a car crash in Liverpool in the late 1960s. She had been engaged to the man who lived in the house now occupied by Kieran and Jayne, and his name had been Simon. That wasn't all. Billy said that Kieran was a dead ringer for Simon, and he conjectured that the ghost of Moira had perhaps mistaken him for Simon, who now lived in West Kirby. The ghost was seen on two more occasions. At seven in the morning, the postman saw Moria standing outside the house, peering through the front window, and on Christman eve, she put in her last appearance, which was rather piognant; because on that last occasion, the ghost was seen to wave towards the house before vanishing-but for GOOD? Back |
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