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Fiction: Ethel — A Christmas Ghost Story
I wrote a little Christmas ghost story, which may amuse some of my friends. It’s a story I have been trying to write on and off since the Most Haunted days, when it came to me one Christmas Eve in a dream. It’s a little unfair, because to really understand it relies on you getting the joke, and spotting the references — which I suspect very few of you are likely to know. Still if you do it may amuse, and even if not I hope it is mildly spooky. This is in lieu of a Christmas card or Christmas message, and yes I know it’s not very good, but some stories just demand to be written… Continue reading →
A foxy ghost?
I was just reading something on a forum which made me recall an odd experience I had years ago, back in the late 1990’s…
I had been addressing a public meeting on the subject of ghosts at a pub near Corby, Northamptonshire. Myself and my ex-girlfriend Polly retired to bed, and as we turned the light off a baby started to cry. I say a baby, but we both repeatedly heard the word “mama!” A small child. “Foxes” I said.”Wish they would shut up.” (or something like that anyway). It sounded loud enough that it was in the room with us. Continue reading →
Posted in Paranormal
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Tagged Corby, foxes sound like crying babies, ghost stories, Northamptonshire ghosts, Polly Draper
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My Own Ghost Story
“And sometimes he’s so nameless”
My Own Ghost Story
Posted in Paranormal, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life by Chris Jensen Romer on March 5, 2010 Edit This
Time to tell ghost stories!
OK, here is my ghost story. It was the reason for my involvement in parapsychology, and almost twenty years on I believe it to be true, but no longer can rely on memory. This account was written in 2001 (for a book introduction, hence narrative/genre style).
“It was 1987 and I was at a wargames meeting with four friends, all aged about the same as me – I was the youngest at just about to turn 18. We were driving through a town called Thetford in Norfolk, England, when one of us needed the loo badly, so we turned in to a cul-de-sac off the flyover which runs through the middle of town, looking for an alley or something for a call of nature! Continue reading →
Posted in Paranormal, Uninteresting to others whitterings about my life
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Tagged ghost experiences, ghost stories, ghosthunters, ghosts, Paranormal, spooks, Thetord Priory
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A Haunting in Normal Terrace
Long long ago in the late 19th century the area where my house stands today was a muddy field. One day a builder came along and started to dig foundations. Now it just happened at that time a brand new Indian restaurant (Cheltenham’s first) opened down on the High Street. People flocked form far and wide to taste the exotic cuisine. Continue reading →
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Tagged A Haunting, ancient indian burial ground, Cheltenham, ghost stories, Normal Terrace, rubbish jokes
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Bad attempts at Fiction: The Case of the Haunted Dorm, part 1.
The Case of the Haunted Dorm
(being in the main the first great adventure of the magnificent Psychic Detective Lars Gunnarsen and his pathetic, dimwitted associates, as told by his friend and lackey, general dogsbody and social secretary, CJ).
All stories must begin somewhere, so mine begins here, in a shabby room in a college dormitory. It is now six days since I arrived at university; I have still never kissed a girl, driven a car or smoked dope, though I have conjured a spirit to visible appearance. I guess that counted for something? Yes, I know you don’t believe me, and neither does anyone else – well except QC. Continue reading →
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Tagged dreadful university ghost fiction, extraordinarily irrelevant and unhelpful tags, Ghost Detective, ghost stories, Good reasons why CJ should never try to write fiction, Lars Gunnarsen Psychic Detective, Rosehill campus, thinly veiled autobiographical writing, unfunny character assassination thinly veiled as fiction, University of Gloucestershire
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The Medium and the Massage: a ghost story…
Anyway the summer of 1993 saw me reasonably well versed in parapsychology, and how to investigate a “haunting”. That summer I was contacted by a gentleman who owned a small hotel, and who stated his family who lived there had been troubled by a series of ghostly happenings – could we do something about it? Immediately we have a problem – I want to investigate ghosts, but people who call me usually wanted to get rid of them! I am a researcher, not an exorcist, no not even a ghostbuster! Fortunately a few months earlier we had also met a psychic claimant, Morven, who asked to be tested to see if her mediumship was genuine, or self delusion, or something else! Continue reading →
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Tagged Amy Avery, Archie Roy, Cheltenham Psychic Research Group, CPRG, critique of mediumship, Dursley, ghost stories, ghosts of gloucestershire, JSPR, life after death evidence, Lionel Ayliffe, mediumship, Morven Alexander, Old Bell, Old Bell Dursley, parapsychology, PRISM, psychical research, psychism, S.P.R, Society for Psychical Research, South Park, spiritualism, spontaneous case investigation, survival hypothesis, The Psi-pher, Tom Paine, Trish Robertson, working with mediums
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"And sometimes he's so nameless" 