OK .. so let's see what ghostly stories I can drum up from my past shall we.
Well back in England, in Yorkshire which is in the North East, my Mum and Step-Dad ran a pub in a small town. In our area of Yorkshire there are a lot of British military sites .. the Royal Air Force and the Army mainly and it's been like that for many many many years.
So my little job in the Pub to get some extra pocket money was to go down in the mornings and re-stock all the shelves for the bottles that had been used throughout the previous day. We had a cleaner during the week, but at weekends she wanted the time off so I said I'd do the cleaning. Teenagers will do anything for money!! I generally was completely on my own down there and I could just potter around the entire pub on my own. I was a teenager at that time and was in to all the tarot card reading and fortune telling!! In fact I was teaching myself the tarot cards and maybe that heightened some of my senses.
I never saw anything clearly with my eyes but I felt them. There were three that I was aware of most. One was a man in his 40s who was wearing victorian clothing and had on glasses. The second was actually upstairs above the pub and he used to just drift around, often into the bedroom I shared with my sister - he had no paticular purpose being there he was just there sometimes. The third was a young girl and she followed me around when I was cleaning.
The regular cleaning lady got to experience the victorian gentleman herself, because she was cleaning the pub one day and there were a pair of glasses left on one of the pub tables - the little round types - and she went to move them so she could put them behind the bar. As her hand went out they disappeared.
Bar staff in pubs come and go and some become regular staff. We had a lot of regulars but we also had the spouses of some of the military come in and work for us. One time a girl from Germany who had married a British soldier started to work behind the bar and as always my parents got very friendly with all their staff. It was like a family. It had already come up that this german girl (I forget her name .. aren't I awful!!) .... had some psychic abilities. Her husband used to tell stories of them driving around and she'd tell him to suddenly stop the car because the ghost of an animal was crossing the road. But I digress, so it was the Christmas party and we got to talking and so I just outright asked her ... is there a girl here. She just looked round and said yes she's over there. That's the girl who seemed to like following me around. That was bascially it .. I just wanted clarification that what I "felt" was correct.
A few years later we did a total renovation of the pub and they took up all the old carpets. Underneath the floor was tiled and the pattern was a beautiful mosaic of an airplane. Apparently the pub had been used by the Royal Air Force for many many years and I think maybe that was the person who liked to walk around upstairs sometimes.
The pub was on three levels .. pub downstairs, our living area on the next floor and on the top floor there were 5 bedrooms that we used as a Bed & Breakfast. They were pretty interesting at times too.
Eddie Izzard!!!
