40 years on I still have recurring dreams about what I saw
I was 10 living in Scotland in a 5 bedroom house outside Edinburgh. The house was huge and built in the mid 18th century.
I was sleeping and woke up feeling cold and had the overwhelming sense that someone was in my bedroom standing over me.
Seconds past... then a minute......and I felt more and more scared but eventually I found the courage to face it.
What I saw was the burned charcoal-colour legs of a man. I only saw his torso. He was a large guy and had an air of menace about him. I ran out of the room to my parents room which was a fair distance away literally screaming. My mother still to this day (she's old now!) says that she'd never seen me look so white and pale with fear and genuinely scared.
I know what I saw and the experience has remained with me ever since.
I was unable to sleep in my room for a very long time.
I still dream about him harassing me, maybe once every two or three months, and have done for the last 40 years. I kid you not.
Turns out that the house was known for being haunted.
The local village had a shop in which my mother told the owner where she lived and the owner said, 'Ah you'll soon meet the ghost of Gallands House'
My bedroom was in the old servants quarters that had a private spiral staircase and my mother and grandmother (who stayed once in a while) heard someone running up and down the stairs on several occasions.
Turns out that there was a fire in the house and I suspect my ghost 'friend' died horribly.
I always always always felt like I was being watched in that house, like I was being followed.
Still to this day, I'm a 50 year old dude now, strongly believe I saw and felt something, and I still have these dreams about him. He's angry and mean....
So, there's my story....