Back in 1984 I went on an investigation with my local paranormal research group. The location was a converted 2 floor flat, above Walthamstow market. The paranormal group were based in Harlow, so it was just a short trip down the M11.
The background story was as follows...........since moving into the property, the young couple and their two girls, aged 19 and 12 years old, had experienced strange happenings in the building. The activity seemed focused in the girls bedroom and on the stairs. Objects kept on disappearing and turning up in other places. A figure of an old woman had been seen many times staring out of the window at the top of the stairs. The team were called in to find out what was going on, and this was my first investigation.
We arrived on the Saturday evening at about 7.30 pm, after a frantic phone call from the occupants. As it was my first time out with the research group I was thrown in at the deep end and asked to go and have a look around upstairs. As I walked into the girls bedroom I went very cold, and noticed the immediate change in atmosphere. There was no one upstairs, I took note of the fact that there were a few objects on the bedroom floor, especially a wooden crib for a doll.
I walked out of the bedroom and looked out the window at the top of the stairs. then I suddenly felt an urge to go back into the bedroom. To my total astonishment the crib was on the floor in pieces, not broken, but each piece was placed carefully on the floor and all the screws were laying next to it, in neat rows. I called down the stairs to the rest of the team, on returning back to the bedroom I saw that the crib was back together again. This totally blew my mind, so I beat a hasty retreat downstairs.
While I was in the sitting room talking to the occupants, their big German Shepherd they had stood up and started barking. at that moment two boxed board games lifted off of a shelf and came crashing down on the floor in front of me, everybody saw it this time.
Later on I was downstairs in the kitchen when one of the team shouted at me to come upstairs with the camera. As I made my way up the stairs I suddenly felt as if I had walked into a freezer. I stood at the top looking down. One of three pictures on the wall began spinning, then without warning came flying off and hit me on the shoulder. At that exact moment the figure of the old lady appeared making her way up the stairs.
I watched her walk past me and go into the bedroom, at numerous times through-out the night she was seen by several of the team walking the same route, alwasy disappearing into a corner of the bedroom where there was a large built in cupboard. I thought that there must be a reason for why she was following the same path. I suggested to the team that we lift up the floorboards in the cupboard. We did this with the occupants permission. I began scrabbling around under the floorboards and my hand grabbed hold of a big lump of old mortar. a small box was encased in the old mortar. after all the muck was cleared away from the box, we could see that it was a very old jewellery box, sealed with very hard wax.
Inside the box was a small christening bracelet and a silver sixpence. a piece of paper was also folded up inside. I unfolded the paper, which was a page from a comic dated 1881. I can't remember the exact words, but whoever had written the letter on it had found out she was pregnant and could not look after a baby, so the baby was either killed in the womb or when it was born. a sad story indeed. as soon as the letter was read the temperature and atmosphere changed in the room. obviously the old woman wanted someone to find the letter so as she could rest in peace and exist with her guilt no more.
There were no more paranormal occurrences after that night. The family were much happier, and the experience made my mind up that there was something in these stories about ghosts. I carried on investigating the paranormal for many years after until the group parted company.
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