Falstaff? Friend or foe?

From: Angela Kelly (dlxxhx@cowan.stu.edu.au)
Story type: Channeling
Location: Western Austalian Academy of Performing Arts 
Source: Form Submission

I am currently studying Musical Theatre at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts(WAAPA). My name is Angela Kelly and I am about as normal a person as you'd find in the Theatrical World. I have had bizarre occurances of the supernatural kind before and think that I am probably one of those people who are particularly atuned to such things, but nothing quite as tangible as what happenned to me last week has ever occurred before. I was in a TEXT class at the Academy at around 10am on Monday 26th of May. We were doing a sight-reading class and the piece I had been given was the hostess from Shakespeare's "HENRY V". We had 15 minutes to look over and read through the pieace and then we came into the room one at a time, did our piece and sat down to watch the rest of the class. I was about the 8th person called in. I stood in the middle of the room with everyone in front of me and an empty room behind me . The piece was this woman explaining the manner in which the king had just died.

As I began the piece I felt a warmth on my back and my clothes move as though someone had just stood very close behind me. I stepped forward thinking that it had just been my clothes settling, and continued. As I reached the middle of the speech, which I was not doing too well, I felt, very clearly a large, cold, real hand caress the back of my neck and run down my back. I screamed and jumped and turned to face the empty space behind me and burst into tears as my class looked on as though I had gone mad. I explained what had happenned and a few faces went pale while others simply laughed. I couldn't bring myself to finish the speech and sat down feeling icey cold and with goosebumps all over my body.