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The Blackpool Ghost!!

The year was about 91 or 1992 im not good with years but we was pulled on my uncles ground at blackpool.

one of the Lee girls on the site had always told me that the site was haunted but to be honest at the time i took it with a pinch of salt.

Every one who lived on the site had there own slab or patch on which my family had a Buccaneer trailer and a tourer trailer and each slab had a shed with a shower and a room that i had made into a bed room so when i was back at from playing a gig i didn't have to wake every one up

to get into the tralier. so the shed was very handy.

one night me and my brother Joe had got home late from playing a decent gig and he was stopping over for the night and so we both made up beds on the floor in the shed. i can remember i was really tired but for some reason i couldn't get to sleep

i was twisting and turning and trying my hardest to sleep but all i could think about was my brother who was laying across from me snoring like a pig on the floor!

well, i was really annoyed and i lifted my head of of my pillow to shout at him. but as turned to look' there it stood at the door' staring right down at me was a tall dark figure, it was almost hunched over with a big hat and a long coat with big collars. but it was so dark that i couldn't make out this things appearance?..

well i didn't look for long as i put my head back down on the pillow lifting my blanket up to my eyes!!.. i stopped to think that this can't be right' so i looked again'' and there it was' still there staring at me' just watching! but this time i yelled'' JOE! JOE!! get up theirs something in with us'' but Joe just kept on snoring so i shouted GET UP MAN!! . and just as i shouted the tall figure just seemed to fade away.

Joe never woke until the next morning when i thanked him for his help with the figure and his snoring.

About a year or so later we were on the same site but this time we was pulled on to a new slab with a new shed and i made a bedroom out of it.

One night i came home late and every one was in bed so i made my way into the shed and got into my bed on the floor.

all i could hear was every dog on the site going mad barking and death howling' it was strange but i was so tired that i fell asleep.

i must have been in a deep sleep but i can remember just a feeling of fear when i opened my eyes to see a white sheet like figure of a man like ghost standing over me and as startled and frightened as i was' this thing just seemed to take two big gliding strides straight through the breeze block walls''

this time i wasn't going back to sleep and the dogs mad barking was getting worse!!

i stayed up all that night and at about 8am Dave Howard came knocking at the door saying are you up yet??..

I opened the door and before i could tell my story Dave told me that he too had been up all night and with all the barking he went to look out of his window only to come face to face with this ghost thing with a milk white face!!

i told him my story and we were both a bit shaken to say the least and later that day the Lee girl had also seen the same ghost.

some of the old people said that the ghost was harmless and it only came now and again. but two time's was enough for me and so i moved again'. ... but only to another slab!

Spoiled for tuvlers!!

This is a true story and was told many times by the man it happened to

One of my Grandad's old cousin was born an only child he lived at home most of his life and was spoiled to death
He hardly worked a day in his life and his poor old Mam would get up at the crack of dawn and walk the streets selling lucky charms and heather to earn bread luvver while he slept in bed all day
He had a terrible quick temper and if he didn't get what he wanted he would shout and curse and bash things with his fists until he got what he wanted!
One day his poor old mam had come home and was tired out with walking all day the son said ''did you get the tuvlers i asked for''?
The old womans heart sank cos she had forgotten to buy them and she said ''no my son I forgot to buy them it's been a long hard day''
Well off he stomped
They were pulled just outside off a small village and he had to walk down a back country lane to the shops, by now it was dark and every step he walked his temper was growing!
As he came closer to the village he could hear footsteps coming from behind him, as he looked round the road was lit up, under the gas lights he could see a man with a top hat and wearing a cape but he had stopped and turned his back on the spoiled son
So the son started walking again but as he got nearer the village he could feel this man was still following him so he turned around but again the man turned his back on the spoiled son
He decided to walk fast and as he got to the village the man had gone.
So he looked for tuvlers but all the little shops were closed
So he started to walk back to the trailer and his temper was raging again thinking about his mother and how she had forgotten to get him his cigarettes but as he left the village he felt someone following him once again and looked round and there was the man again with the top hat and cape but again he had his back turned hiding his face from the spoilt son.
This time the son was frightened and started to walk of as fast as he could but he could still feel the man following him but this time the man was getting closer until all of a sudden the son felt a tap on his shoulder..he turned round and looked at the man, his face was milk white and his eyes were blood red as fire and he stretched out his long arms and held a pack of tuvlers with one sticking out of the pack for the spoilt son
The son drooped to the floor and couldn't move and the last thing he new was his old mam picking him up of the road, he had been out cold for hours and the old woman had come to look for him
That night he learned not to be bad to his poor old mam and so he changed his spoiled ways for good!