hallway.
Not getting an answer, I went into the bedroom and found my husband was asleep.
The "man" I had seen was medium height, had high waisted dark trousers, white shirt and the glimpse I had of him was sideways on, so I didn't see his face.
For a long time before this I had heard noises, seen shadows in the flat that others had not heard or seen.
A friend arranged for a vicar's sister who had had dealings with this sort of episode to visit. I presumed she was a medium. She told me that a young man had committed suicide in the hallway sometime during the Second World War. Later, this fact was confirmed by an elderly female neighbor.
I feel that the presence I saw was that of the man and he was released by the medium. The atmosphere in the flat has definitely altered (for the better) as a result of his "release".
I was asked if I wanted more details of the young man's life but did not want to hear (be burdened) with any further details.
A Blue Bear
I was working in a mall in Chicago; the place was open from 1976 to 1982 then closed and torn down in 1985.
I was 18 years of age at the time and had a job working nights as a janitor. The first night I hadn't been there more than 20 minutes, seated at the break-room table waiting to find out what I was meant to be doing, when the door burst open. Two women, about 25-30 years old, came running into the room screaming and crying about how they had been sitting on one of the park benches in the amusement park downstairs taking their break when one of the benches next to them went sliding across the floor.
That scared the bujeezzers out of them!
Hmm, I thought, those benches are about 9 feet long and weight about 200 pounds each and are quite heavy. I know this because I tried to move them when I started investigating this event, like an idiot.
I wanted to see for myself and yes, I did get my big moment!
After about two months of hearing all kind of things going on all the time at this place, I pinpointed the exact location of just where these hauntings were coming from, as well as the time.
I took my food and went to a place in the middle of where all this stuff was happening and sat there and ate my sandwich. I watched a stocking crew replace stock: stuffed bears that were about 3 feet tall, and different colored ring toss games. This was happening about 25 feet from me.
Then I watched them walk away and as I did I saw something out of the corner of my eye, in the other direction. So I turned and focused on that area and watched the bears and I saw coming out of the center of the pile of bears, a blue bear emerges, like it was being pulled out by someone.
Now, this was my first time seeing anything like this happening and I thought I was going to crap my pants but no, I didn't. However, I did run and I couldn't run fast enough to get out of there! I had never been so scared in my life.
I did what any good coward would do - I quit my job.
I Heard Hard Soled Boots But …
Once years ago, I was just coming out of the bathroom upstairs in the house where we used to live. I heard what I took to be my son, a teenager at the time, running upstairs in his hard-soled boots.
I yelled out some question to him but there was no answer. By my estimation he should have been right outside the bathroom door, which was pretty much at the top of the stairs, but there was no one there. I was baffled. I looked in his room but he wasn't there. I went downstairs and found him sitting in the living room, sock-foot and nowhere near his boots. Even if he had been, there would have been no time for him to take off his boots and get back downstairs.
It sounded exactly like a young person running upstairs in hard-soled boots, fast and loud and full of energy. But no possible way for it to have been my son and there was nobody else in the
Joanna Blake, Pincushion Press