[kj] Ghostly goings on

[nicholas fitzpatrick]

I saw this orb-like object floating up my stairs at 3.30 in the morning 
once. I never got to look directly at it because it seemed to turn 90 
degrees and go under the landing below me before I could get my eyes on it.
Of course, when I tell this story vocally I exaggerate it completely, but 
that's the long and short of it. This occured about three months after my 
local vicar told me there had been a murder in my house back in '79. Natch I 
like to think the two are related.
We thought about doing a ouija board before we move (which happens to be 
this Wednesday). We shan't do though, as my worst spooky experience is with 
the ouija (I got told to kill someone called "Natalie". About a week later 
this girl called Natalie - who I hadn't seen for about five years -  
suddenly stops me in the street to say hello, 200 miles from where we are 
both from. I didn't kill her though. We just had a little chat instead. 
Actually, it was quite nice to see her so I thought murdering her on this 
occasion would be quite a shame).




>From: Phillipps Marc <Marc.Phillipps at enfield.nhs.uk>
>Reply-To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" 
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>To: "'joker at Z6.com'" <joker at Z6.com>,"'A list about 
all things Killing Joke (the band!)'" <gathering at misera.net>
>Subject: RE: [kj] Ghostly goings on
>Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 14:39:43 -0000
>
> >We believe that our first son regularly saw something that spooked 
him (no
>it
> >wasn't me Phillips!)
>
>I find that hard to believe (and so do Social Services) :op
>
>I have had a few ghostly/unexplainable experiences . . some may be drug
>related though . .
>
>One that wasn't follows:
>
>A group of us had decided to visit Temple Bar (not the area in London, 
the
>actual bar itself . . which at the time was situated in Enfield:
>http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/Corporation/leisure_heritage/architectural_he
>ritage/Buildingswithinthecity/temple_bar.htm) the structure wasn't what 
you
>see it as these days (this must've been near enough 20 years ago now) 
but
>was a rather decrepit and sad thing standing in the middle of the woods 
and
>favoured by the local nutters/covens/Satanists etc due to it's rather 
bloody
>history
>
>Anyway . . during that day two of the people who were due to go had car
>crashes which should've been an omen that things would not go well . .
>
>We all met up in the pub, piled into what cars we had left and headed 
off
>(it was getting dark by now) . . . when we go there we all made our way
>along the path to the Bar, all the way along my friend Steve was 
grabbing
>twigs/leaves etc and camouflaging himself (but only along his left hand 
side
>we found out later) . . we hung around the monument for a while, some of 
the
>braver souls climbed it (not me, it looked bloody unsafe) and after a 
while
>we decided to make our way back. Steve was 50 yards or so ahead of the 
main
>group when he heard a sound coming from the other side of a high wire 
mesh
>fence that ran alongside the path we were following (on his left), he
>stopped and waved at the rest of us to stop also . . unfortunately he 
had
>camouflaged himself so we couldn't see him . . I guess the best way I 
can
>describe the sound we heard was as if a LARGE dog was running through 
the
>undergrowth on the other side of the fence and getting closer . . 
suddenly
>there was a crash as whatever it was hit the fence, 5 or 6 torches were
>pointed at the point immediately but nothing could be seen . . then the
>fence started to bend . . . .
>
>At that point curiosity lost out to sheer panic and we all legged it 
back up
>the path towards the cars . . I have never run so fast in my life (and 
being
>a 20+ a day smoker probably never will) it felt like we were running 
through
>treacle though . .
>
>Once back at the cars a few people wouldn't get in them until they had
>searched underneath with torches (what they were looking for I have no 
idea)
>
>The day after we went back (in daylight) and tried to hang from the 
fence to
>pull it down to the extent we had seen it bend the night before . . 5 of 
us
>hung from it but it wouldn't budge an inch . .
>
>Mass hysteria ?
>
>Hallucination ?
>
>Something created by whatever had been going on down there ?
>
>Fuck knows . .
>
>
>Marc.
>
>
>
>
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