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In the mid-1960s, the then 16-year-old Jane Collins (name changed for privacy), from Norwich, Norfolk, in Britain, had just got home from a busy day at work. She headed straight for her bedroom to relax. Minutes later, she had the feeling someone was in the room with her. She whirled round and in the doorway stood a tall man, clearly not her father, who would still have been at work, anyway.
“The most striking thing about him were his shiny black patent shoes,” she recalls. “He also wore very formal black trousers with razor-sharp creases and a smart dinner jack. He looked like he’d walked out of the [British] TV series Upstairs Downstairs, or the novels of Evelyn Waugh.”
But she couldn’t make out his face.
“It was very odd. I could see his clothing in detail, but his face was blurred slightly – like if your TV is a bit off station.”
Oddly, the first feeling she had at seeing the visitation was one of euphoria. She felt great. But this soon turned to terror.
“I must have been in shock and the good feeling was a result of endorphins,” she says. “I then blinked and he was gone.”
She had numerous other encounters with the mysterious figure. In one incident she was giving her boyfriend David (her husband of many years standing) a goodnight kiss. She happened to open her eyes and there was the man…not surprisingly the romantic moment came to an abrupt end. But when David turned round, the apparition was gone.
David was sceptical then and, as a practical-minded accountant, remains so today.
Jane told her mother about the ghostly visions and went on to make enquiries. It turned out that the house they lived in had been built on the site of a very old house that had lain derelict for years. The local postmistress remembered that a reclusive father and son had lived there. The son had mental problems and had died young.
After getting married and leaving the family home, Jane still had psychic experiences. On holiday in Cyprus she entered a historic building and had visions of a death chamber – it turned out that twenty or so people had been executed there.
Even today, she has to be careful where she goes for fear of seeing apparitions who may have met a grisly end, or been extremely unhappy in life for various reasons.
It’s like Norwich’s own Sixth Sense but with a woman in the lead, not Bruce Willis…
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