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A Yorkshire Haunting

This is my first story and is the only encounter I have had with what I believe to be a paranormal experience. Everything I have written on here is true and I hope that you enjoy my story and can gain some knowledge and help me in explaining what I had experienced. This is a long story and I hope you can read it all. Thank you.

My story starts about a year ago. I was 19 at the time so I'm obviously 20years of age now. Me and my family were invited to my mother's aunty's 55th birthday including my aunties, uncles, cousins, grandma and grandad basically all of my mother's side of the family. My mother is originally from Yorkshire England but she had moved down south with her mother and father long before I was born. I didn't know any of my family that lived in Yorkshire but like I said we were invited to my mums aunty's 55th. When we arrived we were all put in a hotel, an old looking hotel, well the whole village looked old and at the time was covered in fog. It was a real typical ghost movie looking village. I could imagine a sort of silent hill movie being shot there for parts. Anyway so we all got settled in and went to my mother's aunt's house, it was huge, beautiful looking and old with a thatched roof and timber beams through the whole house and a view to die for. It looked over hills small and very large with more fog covering it and a beautiful stream close by. So we all enjoyed the day and the casino like party we had at the hotel with roulette tables, poker tables and the rest, nothing 'paranormal' had happened throughout the day or the night while the party was going on that's for when me and my brother went to bed.

It was late, maybe about 2am and I was drifting into a sleep but hadn't quite got there. My brother at this point was fast asleep. I then woke with a sudden and no explanation but then heard from outside of the room in the corridor footsteps but as if they were running. Light footsteps, it went right by my door but then again right behind this first set of footsteps I heard more, they seemed to be heavier and they also went right past my door as if someone was chasing another person. About 5 minutes later the room began to get cold, in my mind too cold like someone had turned on the air-con but in these rooms they only had heaters. It was just after winter so it was cold outside so I thought maybe it's just because of the weather so I got out of bed and walked to the heater, I then touched it and found it was already on and with some heat, it actually stung my fingers when I touched it so it was definitely on but then a small erratic knock began to be heard from my door. This frightened me just because it was unexpected and especially at this time. So I opened the door but no one was there "that's a little strange" I thought to myself but obviously then thought oh it must be one of my cousins trying to pester us. I then got back into bed and felt so much warmer but this was even before I had put the covers back over my body. I felt so much more comfortable as if maybe I was being held, I felt sort of safe as strange as it sounds but then I heard the heavier footsteps come down the hallways once again but this time not like it was running like it was just walking towards my room. (At this point the warmth had suddenly left me) Thinking it must be one of my cousins coming back to knock on my door again, I jumped out of bed and stood ready to open my door. One large knock hit my door and I swung it open but nothing, no one was there. I looked down the corridor and no one was there and there was nowhere for someone to hide. My cousin's rooms were all down at the end of the corridor and then to the right down another. I actually thought to myself maybe I was tired and was just hearing things, I must be surely.

I sat on my bed looked over to my brother, he was lying there and then just suddenly woke up and looked at me and said "why are you just sitting on your bed" I replied "I just thought I heard something" he then said "have you ever had a dream where your drowning and you can't breathe but then you wake because of it but you aren't actually breathing in real life when you wake" I just said no to him but then the room felt like it shifted and suddenly went cold again but was more like an icy piecing breeze that kept brushing up against me, my brother also noticed this but then he just curled up and went back to sleep. I tried to sleep but I felt strange as if someone was watching me and as if I was maybe in danger. I strangely began to feel guilty about something but didn't know what. I couldn't really sleep anymore so decided to go down to one of my cousins' rooms and knocked. They didn't answer so I just thought to myself "they must have been the ones that were knocking earlier because they are not answering, so I knocked again and one of my cousins answered. He looked as if he had definitely been asleep, the room had no lights on and everyone else was asleep so I thought to myself "they mustn't have done it, besides I saw no one running away from the room" I had a chat with him and told him about what had happened and soon after decided to go back to my room.