I've been asked so many time to tell this story, so here goes.
After being introduced to the world of ghosts in '85, my father began to show me more and more. I suppose he could see the fascination I had with it. I was five years old, had no idea about most of the things that he was talking about, but I loved it, every single moment, and hungry to know more.
I remember him continually carrying out tests at home, taking readings from tons of different instruments, carrying out experiments of all sorts, setting down 35mm cameras and equipment all over the place, but I never remember asking why, that was until one night in 1987.
I could hear my mother screaming at my father in the kitchen and I went downstairs. (As it was a very rare thing that they ever argued).
He explained that our house was Haunted, it had been since before we even moved in, but for all the time that we had been there, there hadn't been a problem. My mother is perfectly happy with the idea that our home was occupied by other non-living entities, just so long as we are in no danger, i.e - that they are not NEGATIVE ENTITIES, my mother has had her fair share of run-ins with the darker side of the dead.(1) But on this night, things had gone from OK to terrifying.
To understand what I am about to tell you, you need to know that my mother is able to hear the dead. She's not a medium of any kind, nor a clairvoyant, she can just hear them, but not all of them, and only hears when she chooses to. It's kind of like she's a living EVP receiver. She can hear them talking to themselves, trying to talk to us, and talking to each other.(2)
You also need to know that the house is home to two "Ghosts"(3), One is Lady who we refer to a THE WOMAN(4), and the other is a LITTLE GIRL who was named PATRICIA.
BACK TO THE STORY -
Earlier that evening, my mother was putting away clothes and doing general housework when she heard THE WOMAN come into the room. It was nothing unusual for THE WOMAN to be in my parents room, as they believed it was the room that she may have died in.
THE WOMAN would usually talk to herself about getting ready, or looking for Patricia, but this time my mother noticed something very different. THE WOMAN was talking to my mother, she was talking directly to her, but it was the tone of her voice that was scary.
Then she began screaming at my mother, telling her that we all must leave the house, otherwise she will kill us in our sleep. She never gave a reason why, she also said things that my mother says she will never repeat.
At first she tried to leave the room, but the woman had locked the door.(5) My mother screamed for help but neither myself or my father could hear her cries. After around an hour of verbally abusing my mother, THE WOMAN opened the door and told her to leave. She did. She ran straight to my father and told him what had happened and that they had to leave.
My Father refused to leave and said that the best thing to do was to have the spirits exorcised from the house. Of course, my Father couldn't do it, he had made a promise that he wouldn't do it after a close call about a year earlier.(6) So he called the local minister who recommended a priest, Father Evyn, who was from St.Ives, Cornwall. He arrived at our home the next day, my mother by this time had taken me to my aunt Barbara's. I didn't want to go, not because I don't like my Aunt Bab's, I just so badly wanted to be at the house when the exorcism was taking place, I don't know why, I don't know what it was in me that just made me want to be there, I just know that I needed to see it.
Anyway, when we returned home a few days later, other than the house being in a bit of a state, THE WOMAN was gone. But, her little girl remained. My father said that she just didn't want to go, or couldn't. As THE LITTLE GIRL seemed to pose no threat to us, my father just decided to let her be, an idea that my mother had to eventually grow comfortable with.
It turned out to be a sort of good thing.
As I would get older, my father would take me on hunts and investigations (7), We could test out equipment at home and know if it was functional. Infrared Thermometers, EVP recording equipment, MADS, Motion Sensors and other things we might use.
Most days she is active, and occasionally you can see her sitting on our stairs. Of the things we have picked up in our recordings and what my mother says she hears, the only thing THE LITTLE GIRL says is,
"Have you seen my mummy?"
FOOTNOTES
1. See "THE EXORCISM INTERVIEWS" here on my blog.
2. I have asked her to do an interview - similar to the one I did with my dad. She has agreed and we will do it soon.
3. Ghost might not be a word that you like to use, some people who are into investigating prefer not to use it as it sounds Silly or Amateurish. I don't care, Ghost is a word I don't mind using.
4. My Mother once said that she remembers hearing THE WOMAN reffering to herself as SOFIA.
5. What some people refer to as a "Supernatural" or "Spiritual" "Lockdown"
6. A story for another time.
7. Hunt is when we would go to a location where we KNOW a negative entity exists, and our purpose is to get rid of it. Investigation is where we were gathering evidence.
