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EDINBURGH GHOST STORIES, SCOTLAND

EDINBURGH. GHOST STORIES, SCOTLAND

By ANON

I have had a few paranormal experiences, the latest being last night! One of the most frightening encounters occurred in Edinburgh, at Greyfriar's Cemetery, which featured on The Scariest Places on Earth. I'll tell you a few now.

The first was 11 years ago, not long after My Son was born. We were living with My Mum and Dad at the time, and our son's cot was in our room.  One night I suddenly woke up and looked over to the cot, somebody was standing at the foot of the cot, leaning over slightly, I couldn't pick out much in the 1-2 seconds it took me to hide under the covers but I'd say it was probably a man.

When I looked back there was nobody there. It didn't feel threatening, I was just shocked, and I think it was my Granddad, who died when I was 5. My Dad also says he once heard somebody saying shhhh when my son was crying even though there was nobody else in the house.

Another time, I was at work on my own. I work at a residential college for people with special needs and in the holidays there is only a skeleton staff dotted around. The area I was working at is like a dormitory, a long corridor with about 10 bedrooms either side, a laundry room at the top with a kitchen to the right, then another corridor to the left with more bedrooms and a lounge. I was in the laundry room ironing when I saw somebody out of the corner of my eye going to the kitchen.

I had been standing in the middle of the room and would have seen and heard somebody coming down the corridor, there were no entrances from the other end, apart from some fire doors in some bedrooms but they were all locked, so somebody would have had to come that way and they would have seen me and shouted hello or something.

So I went into the kitchen and there was nobody there. I only saw it out of the corner of my eye so couldn't describe it clearly but it was definitely a human figure. I felt stupid mentioning it but other people said they had seen things too. This place has been in use since World War 1.

This was at work too, in a different area, I was on my own again in the holidays and was working on the bungalows which is accommodation for more independent students. It was a Saturday night and I had nothing to do, I was finishing for my holidays soon so I'd done all my work. I just decided to take a DVD in.

I was sat in the front room when all of a sudden I felt very scared and panicky, I could just tell there was something there somewhere, I was practically frozen with fear for about 10 minutes, I couldn't move. I finally plucked up the courage and grabbed my bag and the keys and ran into the kitchen and out of the back door.

I went to another bungalow and calmed down and stayed there for the rest of my shift, but later on when I was waiting for my taxi I could feel somebody watching me. Another time at work, I was working with a colleague, there were students there as it was term time I walked past the bathroom and somebody had left a tap running at the sink.  I turned it off.  A few minutes later my colleague said, who's left the tap running?

I said I had not long turned it off and hadn't seen anybody going into the bathroom, But it was running again. This happened 4 times more. We thought it was a student playing tricks on us, but they were all out. The plumber looked at it the next day and said it was fine.
My colleague has also heard footsteps in the middle of night and thought it was a Student going to use the bathroom, And when she's got up to look there was nobody there.  A few other things have happened too but you get the idea.