witch

I don’t actually have any direct experience with anything spooky to share with you, so instead I’m going to tell you a true story about what happened to a friend of mine when her family moved into a new house in London.

Wendy (not her real name) comes from a large family and her parents decided it was time to move to a bigger house to accommodate them all. They found a house perfect for their needs on a newly built estate and soon moved in. Everything seemed fine and they were all happy with their new home but then little problems started to appear. It all began with the usual things: lights flickering, appliances switching on and off, and it was explained away as faulty wiring in a new house. However, it wasn’t long before things began to escalate. Footsteps were heard in the hallway in the middle of the night, despite the fact the hallway was carpeted and all the family was in bed. The following night, a ball could be heard bouncing along the hallway and duvets were pulled off beds. The episodes continued night after night and soon the entire family were starting to freak out. The children refused to go to bed alone and it wasn’t long before they were all sleeping in the same room downstairs.

A chance comment from a neighbour revealed the family weren’t suffering alone. The neighbour, not a big believer in the supernatural, finally decided to call in a medium and it wasn’t long before he reported sensing a number of presences. Impressed, Wendy’s family invited him into their house and he told them he could sense the presence of children, which explained the bouncing ball episode, and the presence of an older man who seemed to be searching for them. The medium called forth the spirit of the man and managed to reunite him with his children, after which there were no further incidents.

Wendy’s mum did some research into the area and later found out the entire estate was built on the site of an old workhouse which explained the numerous hauntings and unrest. The workhouses were built to offer relief to society’s destitute and life there was deliberately harsh to act as a deterrent. For many, ending up in the workhouse was the ultimate degradation.

For more information, visit: The Workhouses

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