Haunted Scunthorpe // Read & Share Your Stories

I lived in a house in Henderson Avenue in Scunthorpe as a child, and saw something
really strange in the living room.
We had friends over and we all sat in the kitchen talking. I walked into the living room and there was a man stood by the bookcase, he was tall, wearing a long black coat, a top hat and big muddy boots,he had a long ginger beard and just stood looking at me.
I asked him what he was doing in my house and my friend asked me who I was talking to. I looked at her and said “there’s a man in the living room” and pointed, I looked back and he had gone. Every evening we would hear loud heavy footsteps on the landing and throughout the day our dog would sit at the bottom of the stairs looking up and whining. I don’t know what I saw that day and my parents have always refused to talk about their experiences in that house.

It was early hours of the morning, when I was woken by what I can only describe as an earthquake. My cat sat up in it’s bed and made a startled sound so I figured this must be one of those mini earthquakes if she can feel it too.The strange thing was the sound. I have a wooden bed but the sound was as if it were metal rattling, which was quite confusing. I tried to move to put the light on and see what was happening but I was stuck to the bed and I couldn’t speak either. Sometimes I hear this can be a form of a sleep disorder but I believe it was real and it felt physically very real. No sound would come from my mouth nor would it open so I couldn’t even shout. As I couldn’t move, the covers were slightly covering my view of anything going on except for the way I was facing. I could see the other side of my bed next to me towards the middle and bottom but I couldn’t see on top of me or to the side. At this point I can’t remember if the shaking stopped as I was too concerned that I couldn’t move when it got a little worse. I felt a large pressure get on top of me as though a person had climbed on me. I’m laid there trying to convince myself it’s the cat but no way is the cat that heavy or that big. This pressure pushed down on me so I couldn’t breathe and stayed there for what felt like a lifetime. Not being able to breathe or talk and not being able to see what was on top of me, as you can imagine was rather distressing but at the same time would it be more scary to see what it was? Finally I felt the pressure of someone slide off me and the side of the bed next to me dipped, I actually saw and felt the side of the bed next to me dip and the edge of the bed go down as if something invisible was exiting it. I saw a long thin black shadow slide off the edge.
Now I can’t say I had never experienced anything before because strangely once a year I would experience something that didn’t really affect me as I could debunk it more easily. But in previous years I had experienced a hand on my shoulder quite firmly, I checked my own hand I was that confused, thinking is my hand on my shoulder. No was the answer. Then the back of my t shirt would be lifted up, which I could quite clearly feel. On one occasion I did jump up and shout get off me but another time I felt a sharp scratch down my back, which I could even feel the next day. Let’s just say this all got a bit much for me after that last time, I could deal with the once a year experience and tell myself it was a dream but this I really could not explain. I must also say ever since I was young I have experienced a green glowing light in my bedroom at night. It’s never really moved position too much but it does pulse into a larger and longer line rather than a ball sometimes. Which can be a little daunting when you’re laid in bed staring at it. I have tried to capture it on film but it isn’t all that clear on a phone camera. Sounds strange but if you do acknowledge it then it will sometimes glow bigger for you. My earliest memories of this green glow would probably be around 15 years ago. I even had friends and family come look at it and show them and they can’t explain it. I walk around the room and prove nothing else can be casting this and obviously in 15 years, I have changed my room a few times. Since the event first mentioned happened, I could not really sleep without fear, which sounds a bit silly and I’m not really easily scared by that sort of thing but I did have to get a medium round eventually just so I could rest my mind that whatever happened wasn’t going to hurt me or suffocate me in my sleep again. My house is relatively old and it does back onto a woodland but I am told the ghost I experienced was someone known to me, I don’t want to go into too much detail in this but ultimately my advice would be don’t go near spirit boards especially in the place that was your childhood/teenage hang out, where you and all your friends would go. I didn’t even take part in the spirit boards but apparently you only need to be present for a spirit to connect to you without you knowing. The medium assured me that it wasn’t meant in malice and that he had told this person not to visit again, he said that this person doesn’t just visit me and they don’t know how to go about communicating because of the way they died. Secondly the green light, this is apparently a distant family member, a great grandad, a guardian angel if you will. This presence remains in my house and my bedroom. Since this I have not experienced anything much, there are still presences there as these two were not all apparently picked up but they don’t bother me. You can sometimes hear footsteps across my room when you are sat in the room below and my dogs will sit and stare and growl at things. I would like to believe this was a dream and I too didn’t really believe in anything like this.

Just come spend a night in the Honest Lawyer if your a non believer! I’ve seen a blonde hair girl walk past the kitchen whilst no one was in the restaurant. I’ve had taps turn themselves on in the kitchen. Sounds like people going down the backstairs when I’m the only one in the pub. Heard numerous noises emitting from the cellar when no one is in there and one of the waitress

It was an evening in February. Me and my friend were out at around 7pm and we where walking to one stop but out of the corner of my eye I saw a teenager swinging on a swing with a white blue coming from it. I zoomed in as far as I could and then saw it wasn’t a flashlight it was a long white thing with a skirt on we came back the next day and it was there again swinging for hours on end. I felt a feeling a kinda eerie feeling and heard a screech, when we heard that we sprinted away.

When I was in year 8, every Wednesday we had maths and I sat right next to the door. I always felt cold there, when my whole table were off school there was a little young boy sitting opposite me and when they were in school we all noticed the door opening and closing none stop until we realised it was an old student that killed himself that always haunts that one room in the whole building.

My friend was admitted to be induced as her baby wasn’t growing properly. Her bf took her in & I went up to give him a break. We decided to go for a walk to try & help Labor along. We got into the lift, there was only the two of us in it & I pressed the button to Ground Floor. The lift moved and the doors opened & we were on the ground floor at the complete other end of the hospital. If I’d of been on my own I’d of thought I was going crazy but I wasn’t alone. Still to this day nearly 3 years later neither of us can answer what happened that day.
The next day I went up to visit mummy & see a tiny baby. I knew the way but I walked down the same corridor that just went on & on & on & on, there was no one but me on it & it was as though it was a never ending square with lots of doors & then the ward appeared the corridor was never there again. What happened & Why…. No answers. Strange Spooky & just Weird.

Well, it started when I mortgaged my new house. I have be lived there for 5 years and everything was fine, until I started seeing young children walking into my bedroom as I slept and walking out as I opened my eyes as I caught it walk in and walk straight out of my bedroom. It looked at me on the way out. She was a small girl wearing a tartan skirt. I did not see her again but a few month later I went to bed and my daughter was asleep. I was tidying the middle bedroom and it was getting late and my wife was at work and she told me to clear off the ironing board so nothing was on so I’d done that and then I went for a shower after that I went back into the middle room and I turn my head and I could see my trainers were on the ironing board. So I checked my daughter and she was asleep so I found it strange how my trainers were there as I had left them downstairs. After that I went to bed and I could hear someone going up and down the stairs but the footsteps were soft but could hear it still, and I went check but no-one was there and went back to bed. Then I heard 3 knocks on the wall, got up and checked but nothing, I was up half of the night as I could hear all these noises that kept me awake, then it was 6.30 in the morning I went to pick my wife up from work and that was it I heard no more but there was a few other things that went on in the kitchen I will leave that for other time.