As its nearly Halloween has anyone got a creepy story

This isn't really creepy as much as inexplicable.

My friend and me had been to see a show and caught the bus home.
When it arrived at the bus station a couple of miles away from where we were going, the driver informed us that the bus terminated its journey there, so we would have to get off.
We got off, and began walking towards home, thinking we may find a phone box or flag down a cab, as it was too far to walk, really.
We were chatting away about all different things, and I looked across to my right and thought "oh, there's a black panther"....
It took time to sink in, but the hairs on my neck stood up, and my eyes filled up with tears...
Still, I carried on the conversation, as I was still trying to process what I had seen.
Then, I told her I was sorry to interrupt, but I had to say this....
Before I got any further, she said "I know what you're going to say, and I saw it too. A panther?"
We had both seen it, both not immediately said anything, but our accounts matched exactly.
People have since said it could have been a big dog, but it was so very feline, the light was shining on it's flanks, and it had bounded across a roundabout and disappeared into a wooded area.

And it was BIG.
It's shoulders were at about waist height. (I had a waist in those days!)

And the long, long tail, curving downwards.
You see, it had a profound effect on me, and now I can't stop talking about it!
The ears, too.
Not dog ears. Cat ones!

MissAdventure my DH was driving home from work last week when he saw a big black panther. It crossed the roundabout in front of him and walked off into the woods beside the road.

When my granddaughter was 5 the family were living in a farmhouse adjacent to the ruins of a castle. One summer morning she woke early and went to look out of her bedroom window. She was surprised to see a boy sitting cross legged on the lawn. He had his hair cut in a Bob and was wearing a hat and strange clothes. She thought she might have been dreaming and went back to bed. When she told her parents about it, her Dad said he had also seen that boy.

There is a story about a young servant boy being sent from the castle on an errand. It was forgotten that he was out, and the castle locked up for the night. The next morning his frozen body was found sitting on the doorstep.

Oo er!

We were driving past a pub with same granddaughter aged about 2. A little voice from the back seat said "we should put on our make-ups and jewels and go to the plub". I looked at my daughter quizzically, and she said, "in a past life she must have been a lady who lunches".
They were also out at a pub for lunch at about the same time, the knife and fork, wrapped in a paper napkin were brought to the table. Granddaughter looked puzzled and asked her mum, "where is the rest of the cutlery?"

MiniMoon
It seems that panthers like roundabouts!
How strange that your husbands sighting is the same as mine, exactly.
Very peculiar.

Witzend

Was he real, though, poor bloke, or didn’t you stop to check, Boz?
Given that leprosy is relatively easily curable nowadays, presumably it was a ghost you saw.

I was too taken aback. To this day I wish I had turned around. He seemed medieval. I wonder what he thought if he was a ghost and saw me!
There is a theory that stone acts like a recording material and records images from the past which we see as ghosts. I'm very interested in that theory if anyone knows more.

Years ago I wandered down some stone steps in Tamworth Castle and read a notice on the wall. "This staircase is haunted by the ghost of a lady". I was so scared I nearly fell down the rest of the staircase and joined her.

Love the black panther stories and I have heard that theory about stones retaining images of previous times. I saw a TV programme once about the basement of a pub in York where a workman was doing some maintenance. He had dug out some of the basement floor and decided to take a tea break. While he was sitting there he heard marching feet and a group of Roman soldiers walked across the ancient floor that the workman had just uncovered. Fascinating stuff.

Yes, Nottooold, I saw that programme too. I think it is about the material used for video tapes that is in stone. It could be silicon but I am not sure - science is not my forte.

NotTooOld

Love the black panther stories and I have heard that theory about stones retaining images of previous times. I saw a TV programme once about the basement of a pub in York where a workman was doing some maintenance. He had dug out some of the basement floor and decided to take a tea break. While he was sitting there he heard marching feet and a group of Roman soldiers walked across the ancient floor that the workman had just uncovered. Fascinating stuff.

I’m pretty sure that is the Treaurer’s House in York - I visited with a dd some time ago.

The chap died years ago, but there was an old video of him telling of his experience. IIRC it was in the 50s or 60s. At the time, he was questioned about the soldiers’ clothing and helmets, and historians then thought that what he said couldn’t possibly be right. But later knowledge or research proved that what he had described was correct.

Also, IIRC, it wasn’t known at the time that the house lay directly on top of a former Roman road. He said he saw them only from the knees up (which makes sense in the circs) and IIRC, looking tired and dishevelled as they trudged along. Terrified, he flattened himself against a wall but they took no notice of him, jus disappeared into a further wall.,

He was apparently not the only one to have seen them, since when he emerged, white faced, someone else said, ‘Oh, you’ve seen them, then.’

Dd and I paid an extra £3 each to visit the cellar or basement where he was supposed to have seen them, but not a sausage did we sense - it was just cold and a bit damp.