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But, the very same thing happened the next day.....this time much worse, and my mother then reluctantly decided that we'd have to take a different route to her place of work on the occasions that I was with her.

The years passed by and I grew up, rarely thinking about the above-mentioned incident in the park. I would just give it a fleeting thought occasionally, and conclude that my mother was probably right in thinking it was one of those inexplicable aspects of childhood behavior which we all grow out of eventually.

During the early 1990s, I began to develop an interest in the history of my home town, and I took myself off to the library to read up as much as I could. A book on the shelf in the library caught my eye, and purely out of curiosity, I took the book to a table and began to leaf through it. The book was all about ghostly happenings in and around my home town, and I was reading it with what I can only describe as mildly amused fascination - when, something leaped out of the page at me. It was an article describing how, back in about the 14th century, the very park I mention above was part of a manor house estate. It was recorded that the Lord of the Manor had been a very cruel and vicious man, and one by one his wives had gone missing without trace. One morning, a peasant gardener who was employed by the Lord was strolling through the grounds by the stream, and he saw something that made his blood run cold.....the Lord, oblivious to his spectator, was holding wife no.5's head underwater whilst strangling her with a leather strap. The peasant ran into the house and raised the alarm to the other staff members, and to cut the rest of the story short, the Lord was pronounced guilty of murdering his 5th wife, and hanged............though I never "saw" anything other than what was there in reality at the time when I'd be taken past the murder spot by my mother, could I have in some way been picking up at some level on the residual "energies" from what had happened six centuries earlier? Or was it something more, albeit unseen, "ghostly" at work?

2. During the long, hot, scorching UK summer of 1966 when I was aged 12, my father and stepmother decided they wanted to move out of their lodgings, and buy a house. They viewed quite a few different houses, most of which were out of their price range, then the estate agent recommended that they view a small terraced house in the center of town which was affordable. My father and stepmother viewed the house two

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