Haunted Frogs and Taxi Drivers

The other day I spoke to Imogen about my project and the idea of ghosts and asked her if she had any ghost stories or experiences. To my surprise (because Imogen is the most logical human I've EVER met) she had the most hilarious story about her and her sister when they were younger at their Nans. I'll insert it below. 

Like I know this is was probably terrifying for them when they were younger, but when I first read this I couldn't stop myself from laughing. But then I realised when I was younger my Grandma definitely had ornaments which creeped me out. I cant think of a proper word to describe it but I've become really obsessed with these little 'quirks' that we all had when we were younger. I also think its so ace how peoples ghost stories have become so common, and don't always shock people? Out of our table of 8 in lessons I think about 5 people had a ghost experience to tell me, or a friends story to relay which is so cool. Then when I started just asking around, it turns out most people have at least one. 

I remembered a really spooky one the other day from my ex-boyfriends mum. She lived in a guest house in Roundhay that her parents ran when she was younger, about 5-6 years old I think, and her dad went up into the loft to clear some stuff out that the old tenants had left and make room for their Christmas decorations and general junk. Once her dad had finished clearing the loft out, closed the loft hatch behind him and brought the old things down to get rid of them. He threw them out onto a skip outside and then got distracted doing something downstairs and by the evening he realised he was supposed to be moving their things into the loft, so he set about doing that. But when he went upstairs into what was an entirely empty loft earlier, he saw a set of child's playing skittles in the middle of the room and a ball sitting beside them. He said they looked like they were quite old (not something that anyone from that era would have been playing with) and that he'd never seen them before. Well apparently it freaked him out so much that he took them outside and threw them onto the skip as well and didn't tell anyone until about 15 years later because he didn't want to scare them. 

It literally gave me chills.

I've also started asking taxi drivers whether they've ever seen any ghosts, and one the other day told me how he always used to see a man in navy uniform at the foot of his bed for years and never understood why. Then one day his grandma mentioned that his grandad (who had died before he was even born) had been in the navy. 

I've become that weird girl who asks everyone about ghosts. Basically Luna Lovegood...