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2. Paranormal News | News submitted by: MIB
Is there anybody there? That's what painter John Smith was left asking himself when he heard a ghostly knock on the bathroom door high up in Shugborough Hall.
It was back in 1987 and John, of Vale Gardens, Penkridge, was working alone in the stately home when he heard tapping on the bathroom door. He opened it to find the landing empty.
He was left so shaken by his experiences there that he refused to work alone at Shugborough after that. And he would never stay on after dark.
"Some people might say it's rubbish, but I believe in ghosts. There was no way anyone could have been playing a joke on me," he said.
"I was painting the bathroom door when I heard a light knock - like a lady's knock - and I thought somebody wanted to come in, but when I opened the door there was no-one there and no-one could have got away without my hearing them because the floors are wooden."
John's strange encounter of the supernatural kind wasn't the first to be experienced by staff at the mansion.
Guides and cleaners have claimed to hear sighs and the rustling of gowns in the hall's main bedroom and security guard Ron Mellor said at the time he was certain something was wrong with the room - in part of the house which was open to the public.
"The master bedroom is the coldest room in the house and I get a funny sensation in there. I have never actually seen anything, and I don't know anyone who has, but the ghost is believed to be that of Lady Harriet," he said.
Although no-one has seen the ghostly, sighing Lady Harriet, Ron's dog went closer than he cared to do again.
One day as Ron toured the house with the dog, its hackles rose at the doorway to the bedroom and he refused to pass it.
"The dog just froze and wouldn't go past the door. In the end I had to drag him," said Ron.
As for John, this was not the first time he had experienced ghostly encounters in a bathroom. He once lived in a flat in Wednesfield where, he believed, the bathroom was haunted.
"There was a definite presence in the room. It was like someone behind you watching while you were in the bathroom," he recalled.
John Smith subsequently learned that a woman had committed suicide in that very room.
http://paranormal.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.expressandstar.com/artman/publish/article%5F30270.shtml
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