Debra's story - Downpatrick
Late one night my mum and I were driving down a country lane on the way to see my nephew's play. We saw a man walking towards us who looked like my brother. We slowed down to see if he needed a lift but he just said, 'don't forget to check your wheels' and walked on. We drove backwards to see what he meant but no one was there so we drove on. On the way home we heard a 'bang' and discovered we had a flat tyre. We never go down that road any more. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 17: Dearbhla's story - Co. Down
Last night my cousin came over and we were sitting in the kitchen. I just happened to look out the window and saw a dark hooded figure pass by. Thinking it was my dad's friend Mickey I opened the door and called but no one answered.
I told my cousin and she said she had seen it too but my dad who walked in said it was my reflection so my cousin agreed. About three minutes later I heard someone knock on our door - but nobody else had heard it. My house is at least 200 years old and I've all sorts of spooky stories like this. ----------------------------------------------------------------- --16: Andrea's story - Co. Antrim
A couple of nights ago I was finding it really hard to sleep because I was so cold. My bed is in the middle of the room and my wardrobe is to the left of my bed. On this particular night I turned over and looked at the wardrobe. I was puzzled when I saw a white circular object on the door, the funny thing was that I wasn't scared at all but I couldn't stop looking at it.
I went out with a couple of friends a few nights after. When I told them my best friend's boyfriend said that he had also had the same experience on the same night. That was a bit weird. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 15: Siobhan's story - Waterford
I was staying at my cousins' house in England a few years ago. In the middle of the night, I woke up suddenly and walked over to the window. There I saw this white man and two dogs walking towards me.
At the time, we were on the fifth floor. I ran back to my bed, jumped into it and stay there all night. my cousins have since moved away from the flat. --------------------------------------------------------------- 14: Deborah's story - somewhere in Ireland
One stormy night my friends and I were having a sleepover and at about 11 o'clock the lights went off and when they came back on one of the girls was missing. We looked everywhere but we couldn't find her.
We looked outside and saw something white in the sky. We ran back into the house and we saw our friend sitting beside the window with a blanket around her shaking and her face was as white as snow.
We got her to calm down and she told us when the lights went she went to look for a flashlight and at the top of the stairs she saw the woman that killed in this house three years ago. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---13: Lauren's story - County Down
I was walking home from school one day, when I saw this car driving down the road in the same direction as I was walking.
It was a very strange car: a psychedelic-coloured mini. I watched it drive up the road, then just before it turned the corner it vanished!
I thought I must have just blinked or something, until next day I saw in my horoscopes that I would see something strange during that week which would lead me to a fortune.
So later I phoned up the local paper and sold my story to them for ---------------------------------------------------------------- 12: Sarah's story - somewhere in Ireland
One day my best friend's mother and grandmother were driving down a back alley late at night, and they saw something very strange. It was a white object in the shape of a lady, and it looked solid. They thought they were going to hit it, and they slammed on the brakes. But, they passed right through it. They turned thier heads to see what it was, but nothing was there.
My friend's grandmother wanted to turn the car around and see what it was, but her mother was too scared. Later they found out that the factory that they were passing was supposedly haunted.
When my friend's grandmother was telling me this, her mother had to leave because she was still scared and she thinks it was a ghost. I don't usually believe in this kind of stuff, but their story seems strangely true! ---------------------------------------------------------------- 11: Hugh's story - Dublin
One night last November I was in the house on my own when I noticed a horrible musty smell. I walked around, trying to find the source - it seemed to be coming from every room in the house. I went to bed soon after, still puzzled by the smell.
At about 11.45 pm I was woken by a loud moaning sound which seemed to come from downstairs. I quickly ran down the stairs but could find no explanation for the noise. I went back upstairs, and noticed it suddenly began to get very cold - I could see the mist from my every breath - and the smell in the house grew stronger and stronger.
I reached for the handle of my bedroom door and had a terrible feeling that I was no longer alone in the house. I slowly turned the handle and pushed the door open and standing on my bed was the transparent form of a hooded monk. His back was facing me and he made no sound or movement. I was so scared by the figure that I could not move and I could hear my own heart pounding loudly.
The monk then slowly began to fade away when I finally got myself together I went to stay at my friend's house. I never slept in that room again... ----------------------------------------------------------------- 43. Sean's story - Caerleon
I was was in my friend's house and we were playing on the the Dreamcast when we heared a knock at the door. We got up and looked but there was no-one there.
So we carried on playing on the computer when the computer turned off and on by itself. Me and my friend were sitting at least two metres away so it wasn't us.
So I just picked up my friend's baby brother and carried him down the stairs - he was crying his eyes out.
About an hour later we were watching TV when my friend's dog just stood up and started to growl like mad at mid air. The dog just ran out of the room and out of the house. I wonder what it was? ---------------------------------------------------------------- Ben's story - Swansea
One night I was camping on a mountain with my friends. It was quite a warm night in August.
We camped in the middle of a clearing and had lit a fire. All of a sudden a huge stag ran into the clearing and carried on. We were shocked at this, but more was to come.
An old-looking arrow landed right in the middle. We heard voices shouting and calling to each other. Then we heard the most beautiful voice ever singing a song.
We drifted off to sleep. When we woke up in the morning the arrow had gone and the fire had burned out.
I told my grandfather about it and he told me an old legend about the mountain. Every summer the tylwyth teg (elves) would go on a hunt and chase a stag into the underworld. Of course, it's just a legend, isn't it ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- Christopher's story - Neath
I used to live in an old farmhouse. It was about 300 years old and in the middle of nowhere, near Brecon. My family all remember many of the strange goings on which happened.
One night when I was little I heard the sound of a carriage coming over the gravel. I could hear horses neighing. We hadn't kept horses for a while by then. I went to look out the window, but there was nothing there.
A few weeks later I woke up in the middle of the night. I could feel someone sitting at the bottom of my bed and heard breathing, but when I put the light on there was no-one there.
Another time we were all watching TV when it switched off, then the lights went. My father tried the fuse box but nothing worked. As we sat with the candles lit we heard voices outside, followed by gun shots. We went to the window but again, no one was there. All of a sudden the lights and TV came back on. No-one slept that night.
We moved out not long later, it was getting too much but as we searched the cellar for stuff to pack we found a chest. In the chest was an 18th century pistol with bullets. We took it outside and buried it.
Since then we've had no complaints from the new owners.
It was the weirdest thing that ever happened to me. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Lauren's story - Newport
I was sleeping over my friend's house and woke up in the middle of the night to see a black shadow fading on the wall. Sleepy, I just turned over and forgot about it.
The next morning we went down for breakfast when the coco-pops floated and dropped onto the floor. We got quite scared. That night we were on the computer and the volume went up and down for ages - we ran down stairs and were so freaked out we put on our shoes and ran outside. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Cel & Stu's story - Caerleon
We were on the computer one night and we were on So Weird.
We were reading a story written by a girl named Lauren, also from Caerleon. We were reading her story when suddenly we had a sudden chill and the door swung open. Straight after the computer went fuzzy! ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jennifer's story - Newport
I was lying on my bed with my candles burning and my music playing on the CD rom. I had programmed two songs to repeat.
All of a sudden a song played that I hadn't programmed. I was a little freaked but just unprogrammed it.
Half an hour later the same song played again - and it hadn't been programmed! I switched my computer off, very unnerved, only to see the candles flickering and to feel a shiver down my spine. And the window was shut tightly!
I never would have thought ghosts knew how to work computers! But now I know! ----------------------------------------------------------------- - Jenny's story - Wales
I work with aircraft in a control tower.
I once had a dream about an aircraft crashing right in front of the tower. I dreamt that the aircraft was red and blue, (out of 70 or so aircraft at the airfield only 4 were red and blue), and that the pilot was the only person aboard but that he didn't get out.
Two months later I was at work in the tower when a red and blue aircraft crashed in the exact spot I had dreamt and the pilot on board was sadly killed. The events were all exactly the same as my dream.
I have had many other dreams come true. Also, I have dreamt about cars that don't exist until years later, and many other things but the dream about the aircraft was the most disturbing especially as I saw it happen. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hollie's story - Llancaiach Fawr
Because I live near Llancaiach Fawr Manor our school has taken us there about three times.
All three times there's been something in that house that I don't feel comfortable with. I felt like someone's watching me, especially in the kitchen area.
On the third time the feeling got so bad that I had to pretend to be ill so I could go outside so the feeling would go away.
I think it's too much of a coincidence that I got the same feelings three times. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -Jennie's story - Llancaiach Fawr Manor, Nelson
There is definately a ghost in Llancaiach Fawr (our So Weird Ghostcam location).
My family and I went on one of the tours that they do, and in the last room that we went into, I felt my back go so cold that I have never felt before in my life. Not even lying in a cold bath.
It was a bit scary, but I was not really frightened.
There is something in that building ----------------------------------------------------------------- Amy's story - Colwyn Bay
Often this month I've been upstairs in my room alone and I would hear the tap running in the bathroom, or the door would be closed one minute and the next it would be open. There's even times when the light just turns on and off!
But something that really scared me was that one day I was just lying on my bed and I felt as if someone was tickling my leg with their hand.
It just goes on and on - Ii was in the bath and I heard a knock on the door. I got up and answered it but no-one was to be seen, my family were all downstairs.
This is all very weird and I wish I knew what is going on! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martin's story - Brecon
Last summer, after having an argument with my wife, I decided to go for a drive to clear my head. I stopped for a cigarette, and finding myself on a deserted road just outside Brecon, I found a phonebox and decided to give my wife a call to tell her my whereabouts and that I was ok.
There wasn't a house for miles it was so quiet and dark, when just after I spoke to my wife I was quite startled to find a man wearing a rescuers outfit, a hard hat with a light on and fluorescent orange jacket and muddy boots standing a few feet away from the phonebox.
From feeling annoyed at the man who had obviously overheard my conversation I felt concern at having hogged the phone whilst the man was having to wait for me in what could have possibly been an emergency.
I quickly put the phone down and made a move to get from there as quickly as possible as I thought he wanted to call the emergency services.
As the man made his way passed me he said, "You'd better go home buddy, you need each other", which made me think again what a rude person this must be to have listened in on a private conversation.
As I held the door open for him he reached his hand out to get it when..you'll never believe what happened next. I still can't ... there was an almighty bang....the phone flew off the receiver and banged against the window of the booth - the door swung shut and the man had totally disappeared!
I was a bit shocked to say the least...but not really scared, more puzzled really, as to where he'd gone... but the story doesn't end there.
I walked back to the car and lit another cigarette, in full view of the phonebox. I was there for a good 20 minutes - just staring at the receiver which was just dangling off the hook. I suppose I was wondering when the rest of them would come - rescuers dogs , police, but no-one came.
On my way home, a starry night turned into one of the worst driving conditions I had ever encountered. I could see only a few feet in front of me, and to make matters worse, my car seemed to be having trouble. I really thought I wasn't going to make it home that night.
When I got home my wife said "I've been trying to phone you back to say drive carefully but I just heard an engaged tone...but after repeatedly trying it started ringing and a man answered. I said hello thinking it was you, but all he said was sorry you have the wrong number".
I was amazed as I had been sitting in the car watching the phonebox for about 20 mins and no-one had entered or left in that time.
We are both still stunned by this and would love to know if anyone has had a similar experience in or around Brecon ----------------------------------------------------------------- -Kiri's story - Wrexham
My weird story is true. I live in Wrexham and a long time ago a rich girl fell in love with a farmer. One night, she told her family she was going to get some water from a well, but she secretly went to see her lover, but while she was filling her bucket with water to make her story believable, she accidently fell down the well.
A couple of years ago, a man was travelling by car down a country lane when he thought hed ran a girl over who was carrying a bucket, but after finding nothing, he made inquiries and found out just what had happened there in that particular spot. Spooky--------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- : Dani's story - Haverfordwest
It was the summer holidays and I was helping my mum who cleaned the school. I was walking towards the main hall when I saw a man dressed all in black. He had a black hat with a large rim, black cloak and long greasy hair. I tried to run but my feet felt stuck to the floor!
He was just about to turn around when my feet were freed and I could run. I ran my mum to tell her but she just said it was my eyes playing tricks on me. I told my nan the story and she told me the school was built on an old monastery. There was no one else in the school because it was a summer holiday and the teachers were not in that day, but I have heard that mine wasn't the only sighting there. ----------------------------------------------------------------- -Paul's story - Wrexham
About a year ago me and a bunch of friends went to this place called The Barns. It's this old place were they kept a load of horses and stuff and it was supposed to be haunted. We went there for fun and we found out it was haunted...oh,yea.
First I thought I saw a girl in the window and they thought I was kidding with them but ten minutes later my friend saw it as well. The others still thought we were telling them a load of lies so they carried on and me and my friend had to go with them because there was no way we were going back alone.
Later on we found a little cave round the back of the barns and it was covered with nettles and stuff but my friends weren't gonna let that stop them, so we went into the place and it was kinda spooky.
Then we heard a horse and we all got scared and ran as fast as we could down the hill and out through the gate.
Sometimes we go back to the old place but we never go on the bikes because every time they break. Don't know why but they do.
Hell this ain't no scary story but it's one of the only true stories here! ----------------------------------------------------------------- : Aaron's story - Swansea
Recently I went to a beach called Cefn Sidn. I had walked for a good while with my dog, Ben. The sun was beginning to set as I made my way back to the car, where I was supposed to meet my father.
I began to rush. The wind started to pick up. I looked out to sea when something caught my eye. There on the horizon was an old-looking ship. It had all the look of something out of Treasure Island, with its huge tattered sails.
I could hear something lightly playing on the breeze and Ben started to cower behind my legs. The ship gave off an eerie green glow.
I ran up into the sand dunes because the ship was coming inland. The light was fading more and more every second, and Ben was right in front of me.
We made it back to the car park and I told my father what had happened. He just looked at me and said, "You're turning into that kid next door with all your weird talk". It was strange. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Rhiannon's story - Neath
I used to live in a house where an famous Welsh poet lived. I even go to the same school he went to. His name was Gwenallt, and the sixth form room is named after him.
I was sleeping in my bedroom, which used to be Gwenallt's parents', when all of a sudden I was woken up. It was the most unearthly scream I've ever heard. It was like someone or something was in a lot of pain. Then I smelled something burning. It was like bacon cooking. I felt really sick - it was foul. Then there was this intense bright light followed by a boiling hot heatwave. It only lasted for a second, and then I passed out.
I woke the next morning and shrugged it off as a dream. It felt real though. I got to school and first up was my Welsh lesson. We did about Gwenallt and the teacher asked me what it was like living in his house. I told her what happened to me the night before. No-one laughed as I finished it. It was eerie.
The teacher then told me a fact I didn't know. Gwenallt's father was killed by molten steel falling on him. The class went into a hush, and I was stunned. It all seemed so real. I have wondered what had happened to me that night ever since. It was weird. ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---Molly's story - Torfaen
One day I woke up, when no-one else was there, and I could hear the floorboards creaking. I thought it was the cat but when I looked out of my window the cat was sitting on the shed.
All that day while I was in school I was thinking about the noises I'd heard. When I got home mum and dad were out but I started hearing noises again, and the cat was still outside.
At around five I heard a little girl's voice saying,"please help me find my way home", in a very quiet voice.
When mum came home I told her about the noises and the voice I heard but of course she didn't believe me.
The next day when me and my mum were having breakfast I heard the voice once again but my mum didn't hear it. I told my friend about the strange things that had been happening but she didn't believe me either.
After thinking about it over and over again I thought that maybe I could help the troubled spirit and even set it free. I went onto the landing and talked to her. She said, "please help me find my way home". I replied,"but I don't who you are or where you need to go, tell me please?". And she answered very quietly,"I am a lost spirit, my name is Elizabeth, I died in the year 1901 and have been lost ever since".
I said, "I can't help you but I can let you stay here for as long as you need to". And she said," thank you, you won't even know that I'm here".
And that was the last time I heard Elizabeth but I kind of miss the sound of her voice. ----- ----------------------------------------------------------------- -Lucy's story - Newport
Now I live in Newport, South Wales and I'm starting to think I'm condemned to live in a haunted house forever.
The lady who first owned this house bought it when it was built, 30 years ago. Her husband was an invalid, and died in the house. Now it's not me imagining it cos my Mum has heard these weird noises too, and my cats have funny reactions to things.
Someone walks up the stairs but no one is actually there. The doors upstairs don't squeak normally, but they do when no-one's up there, and the floorboards creak downstairs.
My cats do funny things. When we're sat in the front room, they'll watch something move across the room - we can't see it, but all three of them sit there and they all move their heads in the same directon at the same time, as if they're watching something. Freaky. - ----------------------------------------------------------------- --Joe's story - Llechryd, Pembrokeshire
My friend lived in a very old mansion in the valley below my village. The rooms were huge and there would be very strange noises around the house at night. But one night would stay in our minds forever.
It was about half past three in the morning and the entire house was lit up as the two small children got very scared at night - they said they used to see a ugly man walk through their room down to the fuse box. This was in what used to be a old servants gambling room - it was said someone got killed there because of cheating.
That night there was a eerie silence in the house and all of a sudden the lights went out but there was a odd glow in the children's bedroom which disappeared as soon as we all stood up to investigate. The children said they saw a man being stabbed by another man who looked similar, and then they disappeared. And what was that eerie glow in the bedroom?
---------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew's story - Mostyn When my auntie lived in her old house she had a picture of a crying boy on her wall, painted by an artist who later committed suicide. Strange things began happening - radios without batteries started playing, the rug caught fire, and there was this weird burning smell.
After a while she moved out because she heard voices that sounded weird. A few weeks later, she was talking to an old woman who said she didn't like to say anything while my auntie lived there but the house had 'the smell of death' about it. This freaked us all out ---------------------------------------------------------------- Angharad's Story - North Wales I was in bed when I was suddenly aware of the top of my duvet being lifted, as if someone was looking at me. Then I felt the bedclothes go tight like someone sitting on the edge of the bed. Whatever it was moved down the bed between my feet. But no-one was there. At first I was scared stiff - then I realised there was nothing to be afraid of and I became deeply relaxed. Then it went, and I realised I was covered in sweat from head to toe. The only other person in the house was my mother, and I could hear her snoring in the next room. We don't have any pets, and the windows and doors were firmly closed. It happened again a week later - only this time I shouted at it to go away - and it did. I moved my bed after that and haven't had any more visits.
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