Lost ' Lost and Found

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Story type: Ghost
Location: british rail train 20 mins north of manchester
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greetings.....

i have experienced a few abnormal thing's in my life but this experience still boggle's my mind .

Me and eddie a long time friend was traveling from scotland to london (where we live) after searching most of northen england for dennis a lost friend ''we didnt find him'' at the time it seemed like he wasnt meant to be found coz we only had bad news to tell him ''todd his younger brother died''

disappointed and feeling low we boarded a train in edinborgh to head for home (london)' for the first 3 hours of the train ride we must have said no more than 10 words to each other'' then edd says i need the toilet where the f*** do they hide the toilets on these trains'' i shrugged my shoulders'' so eddie storms off to the next carriage in search of the toilets. sitting alone i just looked out the window not really taking in what was passing ''out of the blue

i felt and heard someone pull the sleeve of my jacket i looked around but no one was there so i stood up thinking it was eddie messing about 'i checked the seats behind but not a person in site ''and there was no place for someone to hide' so i headed back to my seat dismissing in my mind what had just happened. before i sat down i moved my bag from the seat in front of me and put it on the seat next to me incase someone was trying to steal my bag.

as soon as i sat back down it happened again this time it was more of a tug it nearly pulled my hand from my lap'' i froze and all i could think was HURRY UP EDD. i sat frozen for a few mins or so'' it felt more like a half hour'' then i looked around ''but nothing was there'' while i was looking over my shoulder i felt a warm happy comfortable feeling (the best way i can describe the feeling is like when you try to hold in a laugh in a crowded room and you end up with tears streaming down ur face)

then i turned back the way i was facing to see todd looking over the top of the seat in front smiling at me'' and i heard him say '' oh man we are getting close to manchester theres a really good nightclub there i always wanted to go to ''we gotta get off in manchester '!!BANG!! i looked around ''the door that leads to the next carriage was thrown open 'at last it was eddie holding 2 cups of tea and smiling but something didnt look right about him, in fact he looked a bit flustered.

i looked back to see if todd was still there he had gone then it was like some kind of flashback (todd is dead i said to myself) me being me i started to try and make logic of what has just happened ''oh i must have fallen asleep and when eddie kicked the door open it must have woken me up was the best answer i could come up with'' but i couldnt explain how my bag had moved from the seat in front to the seat beside me.

Edd passed me a cup of tea and said ''the next main stop on this train line is manchester do you want to go clubbing'' '' yeah 'ok'' i said, ''still thinking of todd and what he said'' even tho we have just spent 3 weeks and 2 day's looking for todd's brother dennis''..

Ten min's later the train stopped, we was in manchester'' we got off the train at 5pm and headed for the town centre to try and find where this nightclub is ''we asked a few people for direction's and found out it was over 20 miles from the town centre. so we decided not to go clubbing ,instead we looked for a bar where we could have a few drink's and a quiet chat with the local's.

we found a nice little pub/bar 'had a few beer's and started chatting with the owner of the pub and we told her that we was looking for a friend and why'' she asked if we had a photo of dennis that we could leave with her ''nothing to lose'' i said 'yes' a passed her 3 photo's and left my number so she could get in contact incase someone had seen him''she put the photo's near the cash machine in clear view to anyone who came in the pub. me and eddie had a few more drinks and said thank's to the owner of the pub and headed back to the hotel for the night.

by 1pm the next day we was home in london feeling down knowing we had failed in finding dennis. I said to eddie' il phone you some time in the week' ok'said eddie then we both headed to our home's 2 day's later i had a phone call from the woman in the bar she said to me i have someone here that want's to talk to you'

Hello (in a london accent) It was dennis ''i told him about his brother dieing and 4 hours later he was back in london patching thing's up with his mum and dad <--the reason why he left). at the time the only person i told was my mum' i knew she wouldnt laugh and think im mad as she's into spiritual stuff.

1 month later my mum told me she was chatting to eddie's mum and she told her about what i had seen on the train'' my mum told me i wasnt the only one it happened to'' eddie told his mum that had heard todd talking about the club in manchester while he was in the toilet and as he left the toilet he saw todd disappear thru the side wall of the train. and when i did talk to edd about what happened he told me that he felt that warm happy comfortable feeling that i had experienced too but he knows he was 100% awake at the time and he felt fear as soon as todd disappeared thru the side of the train. and i found out that tea he drunk on the train had over 20 spoons of sugar in ''for shock i think''

and still to this day dennis has no clue on how we found him and what happened on the train that day. maybe one day we will tell him or maybe not'' as some things are best left untold......