Supernatural Staffordshire

Ghost at pub was as real as 'man on the moon'

So man walked on the moon. We know this because we all watched the news, the TV footage and eye-witness accounts.

Now remove the part about "man walked on the moon" and replace with any paranormal experience; all of a sudden it doesn't seem feasible. But why not?

People witness ghostly goings-on every day. The paranormal world reports on new sightings and evidence all the time - so why only believe main stream media? Are we that brainwashed?

It always confuses me as to why we listen to big corporate claims and ignore genuine people at a local level.

The paranormal is real. That is a fact.

Roger knows that - he lived through an amazing yet real event that has changed his perception of the world forever.

Roger, now 52; lived in Blurton at the time. The year was 1985.

Roger, then 20, was working at a local pub at the time, bottling up, collecting glasses and occasionally working a few hours behind the bar. He was dating a girl called Tina.

When Roger had finished work at the pub Tina would meet him to walk home with him. On one particular evening she was waiting outside, taking in the night air. She happened to glance through a window and saw an elderly woman who seemed to be staring at her.

Tine was about to look away but as she did she was astonished to see the woman vanish before her eyes.

When Roger came out of the pub to meet her she told him about the vanishing old lady but, as a non-believer, he just laughed it off and even mocked her about it.

Then, a few days later while going in early to bottle-up, he would live to regret mocking the paranormal.

Roger entered the pub and clicked the kettle on so he could have a cup of coffee while carrying out his chores.

He placed the coffee on the bar before going down into the cellar. As he entered the main area where all the barrels of beer were kept the cellar felt colder than usual.

As Roger was changing a barrel he heard an unusual noise. It sounded like something being dragged.

Turning, he was stunned to see that the empty barrel he had just disconnected had moved some four feet away from where he had left it.

Becoming increasingly scared, he nervously made his way back up the stairs and quickly closed the cellar door behind him.

Returning into the bar area, which was empty of any other at that time of day, he gasped to find the coffee he had made just minutes earlier had tipped on its side, spilling its contents across the bar.

That's when Roger looked up and saw an elderly lady looking out of the window - she looked as real as a normal person, but Roger knew he was alone.

Then he thought of what his girlfriend had seen just a few days earlier. Running from the pub and tripping on a stool as he did so, he left and never returned to the location.

Ghosts are real - well as real as a man on the moon.

SOURCE: The Sentinel