On the 18th November 2005 I went on a ghost hunt at the notorious Ancient Ram Inn in Gloucestershire with my friend Sam.
Nothing of any particular interest happened during the night. We had some great vigils with some hilarious fellow ghost hunters and I remember laughing a lot that night. That is the way it goes though on some of these events you can’t have cups and saucers flying around the room and headless horsemen running up and down the stairs every time. The place has a lot of history though and I can imagine on the right night it could get interesting. It just wasn’t to be that night.
So we all set off at the end of the night and were keen to get home to our beds. It was only on the way home we realised we didn’t do any closing down. Kind of a like a psychic shower to make sure you don’t take anything with you. The medium on the night did mention we should do it but as it had been so quiet we thought we would just get on the road. I hasten to add we were helping as crew and the paying customers had been taken care of spiritually before leaving.
The next night I wasn’t at home and had gone out with my girlfriend and some friends for a meal and some drinks. I may have over done it but I was very ill after. I put it down to still being a bit tired maybe and maybe one of the pints was off…
Back home I woke up the next night with an intense pressure in the center of my forehead. Like someone pushing a finger against my head. Was the weirdest thing and that is when I first became aware of a strange presence in the room. It felt like someone small was standing the other side of the room and in the corner of my eye I could make them out but not if I l looked directly at it. As strange as it sounds this thing looked like cousin IT out of the Addams Family. It was covered in long brown hair but oddly really clean looking hair and not some horrific manky greasy hair you might expect. I don’t know why you might expect but it struck me as being clean.
Over the next week I became aware of this thing in my bedroom. I might just be sitting there reading and I would see it. Turn to look at it and pop it was gone, The headaches continued and although this thing didn’t seem nasty in anyway I was feeling tired and drained and on the advice of a medium they suggested I ought to get rid of it as it might make me more ill over time.
After work one evening I went to my room and lit a josh stick. It felt like the right thing to do at the time and wafting the smoke around I went to each corner of the room and asked whatever it was to move on and leave the house.
It seemed to simple but it worked. From that point onwards I got a good nights sleep and all was well again. I never saw cousin IT in the room after so it must have taken my kind suggestion and waddled off back home.
I don’t know if there was any connection with this character turning up and our night at the Ancient Ram Inn but I never saw it before then.
So when messing with this stuff try to close down afterwards, if you believe in that sort of thing of course.