Ghost Story Time

[Rhubarb]

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So does anyone have a ghost story?
A real one, that you saw, or heard about?
A recent one or one your granny told you?

I have a couple:
Yesterday Ellen Karen and myself were travelling on the train this is what I heard from the girls. They were sharing a bed but seperate duvets, it is a huge bed/sofa now installed in Christine's room.

'Did you roll over and hug me in the night?'
'No, but you hugged me'
'I did not, you were hugging me as if I was a teddy bear'
'I woke up and you were going 'sup-sup-sup'
'You were going sup-sup-sup, I thought you were drinking your juice, I woke up and you were asleep.............'
'Uncle Halle said when he slept in Christine's room he felt someone sit on the bed and pat his arm'
'It's very warm in her room isn't it?'
'Not in the corner where my suitcase was, but I think its the chimney, I put it in the grate so it was out of the way, but the heating is on....isn't it Trudi?'

I'm trying to read the paper.
'No the heating isn't on in that room, the radiator needs replacing so its out of the system. It is a south facing room and Christine was always hot in there. She rarely had the heating on. Were you girls cold last night?'
'No' They both said, looking at each other.
'Karen when Christine hugged you whe she saw you how did she do it?'
'Sideways- She would pin me down from one side and hug my body with her hands holding my other arm in a grip with her hands'

Ellen nodded thoughtfully.
'How did I hug you in bed last night Karen?'
'Sideways'
'You hugged me sideways too'
'I did not hug you'

A man sat on the same seat as us was listening.
'Excuse me, can I make a suggestion?'
'Do you think your friend came in and hugged you during the night?'

Both girls looked at me.
'Trudi, do you think it was Christine?'
'I think it was your imagination'

She did hug everyone 'sideways' I have a very old photo in frame of her hugging her dad 'sideways', we are all in the picture being silly. She kept the photo by her bed.

As for the draft in the chimney, well the chimney flue was blocked up and a box closes the soot shelf. Christine hid our Christmas presents in it if they weren't too big. There is no cold spot.
Christine always drank juice noisy too.
*We never told the man on the train that Christine died this year and Ellen and Karen have never met until this week, and through Christine's friendship had just made friends.


2.
When my dad was a 'rookie' copper, he was on night duty down by the harbour. It was cold very clear frosty night. There is a lifting bridge over the harbour and he was heading for it on his tour of the harbour wall, so he could have a cigerette. There he saw a woman right on the edge of the harbour wall and then she jumped in. She was too far away for my dad to call to her so he ran to the spot and there was a big puddle, but the water under the bridge was very still. He called his Sargent and told him about the woman.
The Sargent said not to worry he had seen the Bridge ghost.