maverick 7
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Here is a true story I have told before........
You all know Hampton Loade on the River Severn and I suspect most of you are aware of the Unicorn Inn that stands about 150 yards away from the bank there.
Well, the Inn supplies chalets for anglers...I think they have around 7 or 8 maybe and me and my pals stayed there for 4 days one year not too long ago. We had just had our evening meal in the pub after a pretty good days fishing and we intended being up early the next morning so we retired to bed.
At about 3.00 am I was awakened by a rustling sound....the same noise that scrunching a carrier bag would make. I thought I must have left some groundbait or something outside and an animal was sniffing around it. I got out of bed to investigate, I opend the front door and there was no sign of anything there. I went back in the room and noticed that there was a carrier bag by the front door, there was also an almost empty plastic 1 litre Coke bottle there as well.
After deciding there was nothing there I went back to bed...I was in bed about 5 minutes when I heard a... dum..dum...dum..dum.dumdumdumdum. The same sound that an almost empty plastic bottle makes when it's knocked over on a hard floor. I turned the lights on, got back out of bed and sure enough the bottle was laying on the floor......How the **ck did that happen ...I thought to myself and I was just about to get back into bed...... when a very strong breeze blew straight into the front of my body and face...it seemed to go straight through me......the door was closed shut and there was no windows open.
When the strong breeze passed there was a very sweet smell left behind in the room....like perfume. After that I just fell asleep.
The next morning when we was all in the breakfast room....I told my pals about it and they all laughed and said I must have been dreaming etc etc etc One of the waiter ladies came over to our table and I asked her if there had been any "problems" in any of the chalets....She didn't know what I meant until I told her and she replied..."Oh, so you have had a visit from our resident lady ghost have you"....then I remembered the sweet smell of perfume... I mentioned it to the waiter lady and she said "Yes, that's right...that always happens"...
My mates was cra*ping themselves after hearing this and the next night was complete chaos.....none of them wanted to sleep on their own ...it was so funny.
After the conversation with the waiter lady....another woman who was sat close by in the breakfast room had overheard the conversation and came over to tell us that she too has had strange experiences with a lady figure she has seen several times..
The story goes that the lady ghost was thrown from a train carriage by her lover that was travelling on the Severn Valley line that runs just behind the inn.... when she was alive of course. According to the staff there ....there is more than one ghost as well, but I experienced just the one.
I am not a man that is easily convinced about these sort of things...but I swear that everything I have told you in this story is absolutely true....
Luckily though, the fishing was fantastic on the stretch just above the natural weir there....The Gravel Stretch...as we called it.
...so what do you think about that and has anybody else had similar experiences?
Maverick
You all know Hampton Loade on the River Severn and I suspect most of you are aware of the Unicorn Inn that stands about 150 yards away from the bank there.
Well, the Inn supplies chalets for anglers...I think they have around 7 or 8 maybe and me and my pals stayed there for 4 days one year not too long ago. We had just had our evening meal in the pub after a pretty good days fishing and we intended being up early the next morning so we retired to bed.
At about 3.00 am I was awakened by a rustling sound....the same noise that scrunching a carrier bag would make. I thought I must have left some groundbait or something outside and an animal was sniffing around it. I got out of bed to investigate, I opend the front door and there was no sign of anything there. I went back in the room and noticed that there was a carrier bag by the front door, there was also an almost empty plastic 1 litre Coke bottle there as well.
After deciding there was nothing there I went back to bed...I was in bed about 5 minutes when I heard a... dum..dum...dum..dum.dumdumdumdum. The same sound that an almost empty plastic bottle makes when it's knocked over on a hard floor. I turned the lights on, got back out of bed and sure enough the bottle was laying on the floor......How the **ck did that happen ...I thought to myself and I was just about to get back into bed...... when a very strong breeze blew straight into the front of my body and face...it seemed to go straight through me......the door was closed shut and there was no windows open.
When the strong breeze passed there was a very sweet smell left behind in the room....like perfume. After that I just fell asleep.
The next morning when we was all in the breakfast room....I told my pals about it and they all laughed and said I must have been dreaming etc etc etc One of the waiter ladies came over to our table and I asked her if there had been any "problems" in any of the chalets....She didn't know what I meant until I told her and she replied..."Oh, so you have had a visit from our resident lady ghost have you"....then I remembered the sweet smell of perfume... I mentioned it to the waiter lady and she said "Yes, that's right...that always happens"...
My mates was cra*ping themselves after hearing this and the next night was complete chaos.....none of them wanted to sleep on their own ...it was so funny.
After the conversation with the waiter lady....another woman who was sat close by in the breakfast room had overheard the conversation and came over to tell us that she too has had strange experiences with a lady figure she has seen several times..
The story goes that the lady ghost was thrown from a train carriage by her lover that was travelling on the Severn Valley line that runs just behind the inn.... when she was alive of course. According to the staff there ....there is more than one ghost as well, but I experienced just the one.
I am not a man that is easily convinced about these sort of things...but I swear that everything I have told you in this story is absolutely true....
Luckily though, the fishing was fantastic on the stretch just above the natural weir there....The Gravel Stretch...as we called it.
...so what do you think about that and has anybody else had similar experiences?
Maverick
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......never mind
