The Red Baron

From: Ian J. Finlayson (sck0622@iol.ie)
Story type: Ghost
Location: Ireland
Source: Form Submission

I am a person who strongly believes in the Paranormal (not so much UFO's), and this is an experience I would like to share with everyone on the Internet!!! In the summer of '95 we had sort of a family get together when I say get together I mean my Aunt and Cousin from England and 2 of my other cousins who live nearby my home in Dublin, One of these cousins lived in a flat about 5 minutes down the road from me and the other one lived at home with her parents. My cousin from England lives at home there with his Girlfriend... Anyway.......

We had all been together this night in my House, and my cousin who owns the flat told us that she had seen something floating at the end of her bed in the early hours of the previous morning.... We asked what it was (Disbelieving her)!! and she said it was like a Red sort of colour, Vague Spirit just standing at the end of her bed at the corner of the door! We didn't really believe her as we thought it might be a result of (Alcohol poisoning!) !!

A couple of hours past and we were looking for something to do so we agreed to go to her flat and take a look around....We got to her flat at about 1:30 am and everything was fine she showed us whereabouts in her room that she had seen this apparition. We proceeded into the Living room were we just sat on chairs and the couch talking about different things. We had no TV or Music on so the room was pretty quiet.

Around 4am we start telling true paranormal experiences that any of us might have had or knew about!! My cousin from England began telling one his Girlfriend had experienced, and just as he was getting to the strange and eerie part of the experience the door SLAMMED (with great force) shut in the living room!!!! and as you can imagine it was very loud as we had no music or TV on! Just after this happened we heard footsteps on the inside of the room i.e. the floorboards were creaking and you could hear someone walking on them right at the door..... and within seconds of this the most Horrible and Uneasy feeling I have ever experienced just seemed to PASS through us all, I don't know how to explain this feeling, all as I know is that I never felt anything like it before and I never want to feel it again!!! Then it was just like 5 minutes or so had just vanished?? and we were sort of huddled together in a group which we hadn't been originally (we don't remember getting into this group) We were more Spooked than terrified!!!

After that we decided to move into the kitchen area which was quite small!!! Well I began to tell a True Paranormal Experience my Mother had, and as I was telling it the light bulb in the kitchen was flickering on and off!! we sort of laughed at it thinking it was just a coincidence!! Then as I got to the Strange part of my mother's experience The Whole kitchen just went pitch Black no popping sound from the bulb or nothing... and then we could all see a sort of red mist at the ceiling of the Kitchen at the doorway....

We were all pretty scared at this stage (Including my Cousin from England who doesn't believe in anything Paranormal... He does now!), and we decided to get out and go back to my house, so we went into the L.room again to get our coats and we got them and then had to pass by the kitchen to go down the stairs and out of the house, well as we were passing the kitchen the light in the kitchen went back on and the mist was gone!!!!

So we arrived in my house pretty scared it was about 6am (Just Light out) and we told the people in my house what had happened and of course they wouldn't believe us until my cousin from England agreed completely with us then they started to listen!!!

Well we went back that morning and investigated the place... everything was fine and sure enough the floorboards only creaked on the inside of the door when walked on and when we went to the kitchen we turned the light on and moved it around and poked around it and it never flickered once!!!!

Well that day my cousin packed up her gear and left the flat, went home to her parents and never returned to it!! I still see the flat when I am going into the city and I always think back of that night!!!!!

Thanks for listening! Ian J. Finlayson. Comments and E-mail to : sck0622@iol.ie