#widcombeghosts

(House No & Date Unknown - Road name withheld) Two sisters shared a house in Widcombe, the younger looked after the elder who was an invalid and was confined to her bed. This has been going on for years and they were the only occupants of the house it was therefore a bit of a surprise and an alarm when they started to hear strange noises within the house. One day the elder sister heard somebody with a severe cough coming from the passage beyond a closed door where she was sitting she leapt up to see what was going on and as it sounded like a female but it was not her sister coughing. She flung open the door and to her horror she saw the figure of an old lady in old fashion clothes wearing a mop cap. This old woman looked like a domestic servant and she had a very lined and very angry looking face with a very sinister looking look on it. The sister was dumb struck and didn't know what to do! The apparition in front of her waved her bony wizened hands backwards and forwards with one finger showing a very bright and shiny ring, she was mesmerised by the ring only to see that same hand turned into an equally bony fist.. Then this unwelcome guest gave a menacing gesture with her fist and then turned round and ran up the stairs with extraordinary speed for one so seemingly old and frail also making a bloodcurdling cackle as she did so . She followed up the stairs to see where she had gone and found no one there and her elder sister is just sound asleep, seemingly undisturbed by this. Some weeks passed and routine of the house return to normal, the other sister had not been able to get the horrible memory of the spirit she had seen out of her head, having shared her experience, the older sister thought that it was possibly a figment of the younger sisters imagination, but they agreed to keep it quiet. Then one day a relative came to stay and as they were settling down for the night the younger sister suddenly sat upright in her bed in her darkened bedroom and something had been thumping against her door terrified that it wasn't repetition of the previous experience she opened the door and there was a light on in the passage and she was confronted by a ghastly luminous figure of a semi human appearance. What didn't help was it this thing was naked and had a head that was dome like and was slavering at the mouth and had piercing eyes. The night's fearsome events were not over as she dashed past the loathsome spectre, just as a scream came from her nieces bedroom she burst through the door to see the young woman sat upright in her bed shaking clearly in terror she described how noise had awoken her, as she opened her eyes gaze into those of hag like creature glowing with devilish luminosity. She tried to comfort the hysterical young woman who was so frightened that they agreed they would share the bed for the rest of the night. They told the other sister the next morning of their experience and yet again, she had been oblivious to it all and had heard and seen nothing. Before the young lady left the next day they swapped notes about what they had seen, the sisters had not told her about the previous encounter. The horrendous head like creature never reappeared although it was still capable of making its malevolence presence felt which meant that the two sisters got through an awful lot of domestic servants! They usually left, some to not even pick up their wages, claiming that parts of the house they just couldn't enter and had to leave It is not recorded which era this was and it would be interesting to know if whether anything like this ever happened again since.. Source- Haunted Bath - David Brandon Picture Credit - Old hag by TurnerMohan on Deviant Art