A VERY SCOTTISH HAUNTING
( from an exorcists chronicles )
Submitted by Ann P on 10-30-06
A call came through to a local spiritual centre in Woodford Essex,
that a house had been having some strange supernatural phenomena that
was causing the 2 elderly occupants some distress.
The phone call for me to check it out that came at a busy time for me,
so I asked to get someone else, then I was informed this was a “Red Code 5”
These come up once in a blue moon and are rated as the very highest category in spirit infestation.
So on asking for what was happening,
1. I was told that food would go missing in the night,
2. Things would be moved about inexplicably,
3. Dark shapes would be glimpsed quickly that disappeared,
4. Footsteps could be heard walking round the ceiling for much of the night .
5. The old couple swore that they heard muffled unintelligible spirit voices.
6. Sounds like someone was choking to death
Now the average haunting had just 2 or 3 of these phenomena, but this had 6,
So I went as soon as I could, it was a long trip and I was anxious what I may find,
Most callouts tend to be non psychical in origin, but this rung the bells in six categories.
It turned out, this old Scottish couple had been in dispute with another Scottish clan and believed
the haunting was connected to a clan battle going back some 300 years, and as the old Scots chap spoke
excitedly about the dispute he jumped up and took an old sword from above the fireplace and was shouting;
if it be anything but ghosts I would slay them with ma claymore as we did before ye ken”
This old chap was at his wits end, and as my accomplice and I set about a close examination
for spirit contact, we drew a blank, we could find no signs of a malicious haunting.
It was actually a relief to me as I was anxious of a long drawn out battle with a whole nest
of spirits which may have to be exorcised, this can be a debilitating experience which can lead
to exhaustion and strange illness afterwards, as emotional and spiritual attacks are very common in these cases.
So on asking if they were on any medication, something perhaps that would cause hallucinations, they
seemed pretty well balanced and not in dementia, and no signs of nocturnal cerebral anoxia, night-time
oxygen starvation in the elderly that can bring on realistic imaginative dreams, many sleeping tablets
particularly the soporifics of the Benzodiazepan variety can instigate strange nightmares.
We decided to spend a couple of hours quietly in the bedroom, where most of the footsteps were heard,
and after a time yes we heard them too, they seemed muffled and from above.
The spiritual centre was contacted and Colin and his wife came for the night watch, and we went to get
some sleep, content that an experienced medium and her husband were there over night at the Scottish
couples troubled home.
The weekend intervened and then I had a brief, but stern call to come by the spiritualist centre,
I thought I had seen it all, and wondered what had happened in the night
but what did occur had me stumped !
It turned out after an examination of the loft to investigate the footfalls,
A bunch of asylum seekers had broken through the attics from the empty house 2 doors down and were
creeping out at night and stealing food from the Scottish couple and the people next door, the police
were called and no less than ten people had been living in the loft spaces !
The reported choking to death sound, was a muffled tubercular cough !
This was seen as hilarious, “Haunted by Refugees” was the headline on the monthly Woodford spirit
newsletter, that took some living down, but it is true that most so called hunting’s have a very physical explanation.
The funniest thing of all was that the old Scottish chap really believed, and absolutely insisted
the foreigners were sent from a rival clan to spy on him ! T Stokes
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