The year before I went traveling, I managed a pub with a friend and we both lived there at the Wheatsheaf in Dallington, a leafy suburb near Northampton town centre! It was a large two section pub (Scottish and Newcastle) with the bar section, off to the left as you walk in, was older and I am not sure but would date back to late Tudor. The lounge section had been added about 3 hundered years later!!! Now it was a very picturesque pub, with a thatched roof, and some of the upperfloors (my bedroon included) had floors that had sagged badly with age...AND it has a resident Ghost called the White Lady!!!
At first it was just odd things happening, like things vanishing, and showing up somewhere else, or footsteps could be heard on the stairs...the ususal spookie stuff, you know! Well one evening while I was alone in the pub and I was just about to open for "early doors" at 5pm, and I was in the pub kitchen making a cup of tea, before I finally let my thirsty regulars in. My hair was tied back in a pait braid at the time and was just haninging down my back...so there I was making my tea, when suddenly my hair was pulled quite violently at the back, and stretched my neck so much I called out "OWW!!!" And spun around expecting to see my buisness partner, Linda standing there laughing at me, having snuck back in from her shopping trip...........but there was no-one there!!!!!! In fact I had to acctually remind myself that I was alone in the pub, and had the keys so no-one could have got in!! I wasen't acctually scared...I was more baffled than anything else! Some *thing* had just pulled my hair!!! Anyway my hands were trembelling as I unlocked the back door to let my early doors regulars in, and the first in was a chap called Nick!
"Freeking hell, you look like you have seen a ghost!!!" he had sniggered at me, into his first pint!!
"I think I have just felt one!!" I had exclaimed in answer! Nicks grinn had just widened into the Cheshire Cat variety!!!
"Oh she has introduced herself then!" he said...and preceded to tell me the sad story of the white lady! Apparently she was a young girl who has hung herself in the church yard oppersite the pub and this tradgedy had come about becuase she was pregnant and came from an upper-class family who would disown her for becoming so! She has been haunting the Tudor side of the pub since, but is never seen in any other part of the place! She is never seen in the lounge or indeed upstairs (thank goodness) but many older regulars confirmed the story to me over and over again! More comfortingly they confirmed to me that she is a playfull ghost and the hair pulling episode was simply her way of saying hello! ...Linda and I had only been at the pub for two weeks when this happened (I was there for another 10 months before I flew to India) and the regulars were saying that the ghost does this to all new live in managers at the pub! Now Linda and I had a good system which worked weel for both of us...I would work first thing (setting up prepping food ect) untill 12 midday when it was Linda's turn to take over, and I would go and have lunch and resume work at 5pm untill 7:30pm untill Linda took over once more! This system meant that I had most evenings off so Derek would bring his travel photo's round and we would look at them, and drink and play Mah Johng in the warm upstairs kitchen! We were never bothered by the ghost upstairs and from mine and Linda's expierence of her, we figured that she walked in a pattern from the kitchen (downstairs) through the old bar and back again! Linda and her boyfriend both actually saw her, but I dident....oh apart from a flash out of the corner of my eye one afternoon while I was closed and I was cashing the tills! It was a white flash out of the corner of my right eye and I said "Oh go away will you!!" and the next thing the Gents toilot door opened slowly and suddenly banged shut!!!! No windows were open to cause a draft as I always locked the windows in the afternoon, and I was alone!
Anyway....so I have had expierence of and indeed have an interest in ghosts...So browseing youtube recently I found this little piece of film from a guy in America who apparently had a ghost in his pantry. In this amazing video you can clearly see a young girl pressing herself against the glass (you may need to pause the vid between 53 - 58 sec)...its spookie!! *shudders* ...it also maybe a fake, but I can't see how??? it looks pretty bloody genuine to me!



What do you think???

Is it real??....or is it Memorex?? ;-)

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