Ghost stories

[Will]

I've noticed a few people finding this site while looking for Warwickshire Ghost stories. So was wondering if anyone had any good ones they'd like to share.

I'm going to look around see if I can find some too.

[optrex]

oooh great idea. Now that could be a unique selling point - a warwickshire ghost (sub) forum

[cathidaw]

how about this for a TRUE ghostly tale.

A builder friend bought an old house in chapel street Bedworth a few years ago. After making it habitable he moved in and his 2 year old son had a nursery on top floor.
They often heard him chattering away as all children do but one day they asked him what he had been talking about the night before as it was a long time before he went to sleep. (He was now 3) . he said, "oh, I was talking to mrs J" and they laughed.
He then often made comments about what Mrs J had said, such as "Yes I know Mrs J told me", or Mrs J. said--
After a while things started to happen in the house--not spectacular-. for instance a piece went missing from one of those musical jigsaw puzzles kids have where, when the last piece is put in it plays a tune. They searched everywhere.
A few weeks later they heard this thing start playing. when they looked the puzzle was complete. They were quite scared especially when the little boy said that Mrs J. had told him that she would find it for him.
They moved house a couple of months later after checking the recorded history of the house and finding that a Mrs J. had lived and died there
about 100 years ago.

[chillitt]

A few years ago, I was helping a friend rewire a farmhouse in Northampton.
It was all going very well, untill we had to run some wires under a floor, through a cellar that had been sealed off years ago. Now I am not a coward, but I really didn't fancy it, so he dropped into the cellar, and I passed him stuff and dangled a lead lamp through the hole we had opened up. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a woman in a blue and white stripey dress in the porch, which was odd, because both the doofs were locked... I told Nigel and he accused me of trying to wind him up, (the very idea... ) but he did finish off the work in the cellar a bit rapid!
Over the next few days, both of us saw her, not in any great detail, just a fleeting glance. until... I was running wires in the master bedroom, and I had to go downstairs for some more stuff. When I came back, the door slammed in front of me. No draughts, all the doors and windows were closed. O.K. I thought, i'll go and work somewhere else for a bit. Later on, I noticed the door was ajar, so I knocked(!) and went in and finished the room off. While Iwas working, I explained to an 'empty' room what we were doing, apologised for all the mess, and promised we would put everything staight when we had finished. I don't know if that helped her or me, but I didn't get shut out of any other rooms...
The next day, I was threading wires on the landing, by the door to the attic, when less than 3 feet away, the dropper on the thumb latch of the attic door lifted, the door opened, and then swung shut again, but the dropper didn't latch properly first time. the latch then lifted again, the door closed and the dropper dropped into place. I went downstairs and Nigel said that 'she' must like the cleaners, because as they turned up, the room warmed up noticibly. His face was a picture when I told he she must have been in with him, and the room would have warmed up as she went off to hide in the attic....
In all the time I was there, I wasn't in the least bit scared, but I did feel like I was intruding... we both took to talking to her as we would to a 'live' customer, and that really did seem to help. But she never did make us a cup of tea....

[cathidaw]

My son was doing a survey of an old building in Cryfield Grange
Tha m\n of the house asked if he would like to see some ancient windows in the cellar which he'd turned into a games room. On the way down there was an old wall which went down so far under the house he said they hadn't even'bottomed' it. As the descended the steps my son felt a great pressure on his chest -as tho' he was being crushed- and was afraid he would stop breathing.but as he went further down the feeling went.
On the way up again the same thing happened -but only on the same step.
When he mentioned it the man said that his wife had the same feeling--on the same step and would not go near it
I have often wondered what awful thing happened there in the distant past
especially as the house mentioned is near Gibbet Hill