A few choice e mails that were sent to a well known publication and
called letters to ghost box,
Dear Sir,
The other night I was awoken by a loud thump from downstairs, I have always been terrified of ghosts, So you can imagine my state of mind as I crept downstairs to confront the supernatural horror I was certain lay in wait for me. I was so relieved when I opened the front room door to discover, it wasn’t a ghost at all, merely a knife wielding maniac, who had stabbed his way out of a local hospital for the criminally insane.
From, Mrs Ethyl Bromide…Leeds.
Dear Sir,
My husband and I moved into an old house last summer, and I was disturbed when a neighbour told me it was known locally as a House of Death. She explained that in Victorian times the family who lived there had all been murdered and dismembered in there beds by an escaped lunatic, who then ate them. Last week on the anniversary of the killings, I was awoken in the night by loud screaming; my bed flew into the air and started spinning, and blood started to ooze out of the walls and ceiling. The bedroom door then flew off its hinges, and I saw a man, a woman and three children in Victorian dress all covered in blood. Then everything stopped as quickly as it began. When my husband came home from the pub I was so traumatised I could hardly tell him what happened, when I did, Imagine how relieved and foolish I felt, when he explained it was probably just an airlock in the central heating pipes.
Mrs Marjory Spleen, Crewe.
Dear Sir,
I thought I’d seen a ghost, the other day when I walked into the living room and saw my late husband floating in front of me 2ft off the ground. Then I remembered he’d hanged himself off a beam, earlier in the day and I’d forgotten to cut him down! How silly I felt.
From Mrs Edna Hardboard, Torquay
Dear Sir,
Our house is built,on the site of a old roman fort. One night last year whist I was watching TV, suddenly all the lights went out and the room went freezing cold, To my horror an entire cohort of roman soldiers marched through the wall, across the room and out through the other wall, this went on for the next half an hour accompanied by the sounds of horses hooves and clanking of armour. I was frozen with fear. When my husband came home from the pub, I told him of my ghostly experience. Can you imagine my relief when he explained it was probably a trick of the light?
Mrs Marjorie Steel, Chelmsford.
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