GHOST STORIES Thanks to Betty for this Story THE WINSHILL GHOST
Every Saturday my parents went to the pub and we were looked
after by a
babysitter.We would be in bed when my parents returned. My parents would
always go to the loo before settling down for the night and would open the
bedroom door and check all the children were safely tucked in. Any flaying
arms or bedcovers that were adrift would be straightened. I made it a point
to wake myself up (I was always a light sleeper) and get the attention of
my
mother. I would ask for a glass of water which my mother would attentively
fetch and sit on the edge of the bed while I drank it. This was my quality
time; on a one to one basis, with my mum.
One evening I had been in bed and woke up to a figure stood
in the dark by
the door. I asked as I normally did for a glass of water and the woman,
blonde haired: as my mum was then, dressed in a cream coloured dress (not
quite full length) came across the room and disappeared in the sideboard!!
The next morning I told my mum. I would have told her that
evening had I
have been brave enough to get up from hiding under the bedcovers. She
dismissed the idea and said it was my imagination running wild again.
My sisters and brothers said they had experiences too but
my parents
dismissed it as childish imagination. My brothers and sisters on occasion
would wee in the garden rather than go upstairs alone to the loo.
In 1989 I was working part time in a shop and it was very quiet and the
subject came across spirits and having a personal 'guide'. The girl told me
about her experience of being saved from a resevoire by a mystery person who
disappeared and that she had once seen a ghost. The ghost she told me
'without a word of a lie' had been floating a foot off the ground. Her and
her sister had been walking near the '49 steps' one early evening when it
was dark and saw a ghost float up the steps to the first house with the
tree....
That was where I used to live..
She did not know I used to live there and we had not spoke about this
subject before.
I subsequently rang my mum who said she knew that there was
a ghost in the
house but she was hardly likely to admit it at the time with so many
children in the house. She then admitted that the ghost used to tease her
in
the kitchen by tapping her shoulder so she would turn round and noone would
be there.
On speaking to relatives, who have long since died, they seem
to remember it
being called 'Gawpys Hill'. I cannot find any record of this. I wondered
whether or not it may have been an unmarried mother that had her child taken
away and was an unsettled spirit? I believe female spirits are more
prevalent around children during adolescence as they are drawn by their
motherly instincts to return to help unsettled minds of children?
A LOCAL LEGEND