True Ghost Experiences

Telephone Exchange

This is one of twostories. Its something that happened to my dads and his workcolleagues. Its true.

This takes place in England. Im not a good story teller but Iwill try my best.

My Dad works for British Telecom as an engineer. Occasionally heand his colleagues have to work in small Telephone Exchangeswhich are dotted around the countryside they are usually littlemore that large sheds with a few rooms which hold telephoneequipment that link up the the larger city telephone exchanges.There is one in particular which is haunted.

So much so that neither my dad or his colleagues will go therealone anymore. This Exchange is in a small Village called Altonnear the well known Alton Towers Theme Park in Staffordshire.

This Telephone Exchange is very small. It is quite hidden in themiddle of nowhere has gates and a long drive to the building ithas one entrance a corridor and two rooms both rooms can only beentered from that corridor so nobody could get in any other way.

Anyway my dad has in the past been there alone at night working.He has on many instances been in one of the rooms and heard theentrance door open and shut and heard distinct footsteps walkdown the corridor past the door to the room he is in and enterthe door to the other room.

Knowing that nobody else was due to be working there at that timeof night and in the middle of nowhere he decided to investigatewho it was in case it was a vandal who might damage the valuableequipment. When he left the room and walked into the other roomwhere he had heard someone enter he found nobody there he huntedaround but found nothing, no lights on or anything. This hashappened a number of times. His other colleagues have allexperienced the same thing. But never any evidence that anybodyhad been in the building apart from themselves.

One colleague in particular had an altogether more frighteningexperience.

One day in broad daylight he was working in the main room withall the equipment alone. He was working away minding his ownbusiness when all of a sudden he heard all the windows behind himbanging. He swiftly turned around and to his horror confrontedwith the sight of 15to20 medieval monks with big clubs andfurious looks on there faces banging at the windows trying to getin at him. The felt the atmosphere a mood of the place changedramatically and become really electric and it seemed that thewindows were wobbling. As you can imagine he was absolutelyterrified. He ran up the corridor and luckily for him had parkedhis BT van right outside the door. He leapt in leaving all hisequipment behind and drove as fast as he could down the drivewaytowards the entrance gates. He can remember looking in his rearview mirror and seeing monks running down the driveway after himshouting and waving sticks at him. Just as he got to the gatessuddenly in front of him two more monks appeared and startedrunning towards him with furious faces and trying to hit the carwith their sticks. The strange thing is that there was one memorythat he really remembers. One of the monks looked right at himthrough the windscreen and was a black man.

This took him by supprise because he had imagined that in thepast that a black monk would have been unusual. Anyhow the nextday he was so upset he went to the doctor who took one look athim and told him he was signing him off sick for 2 months becausealthough he did not know exactly what my dads friend had seen hecould tell that whatever he had seen almost frightened him todeath He was a nervous wreck for months. They have since foundout that theTelephone exchange is built in a remote part of thevillage off the beaten track and did once have a small monastery.

My dad also recalls another strange thing. He was also there oneday on his own. It was lunch time so decided get some fresh air.He went up to the fields at the back of the exchange. He opened agate and walked into a field. He says that the he experienced thestrangest sensation that the atmosphere of the place had changed.He cant quite explain what it was but something did not seemright. He noticed in front of him a bunch of rabbits in the field.The moment the atmosphere changed all the rabbits suddenly lookedup at him and all stood up on there back legs and started glaringat him strangely, not frightened but as if they were really angry.He got the impression that he should not have been there.. Hefelt so uncomfortable and nervous that he swiftly turned aroundand ran out of the field (Now my dad is a real sceptic and notone for running away from a bunch of bunny rabbits). Where onceagain the atmosphere changed and he felt at ease again.Fortunately its very rare anybody ever has to go there anymore.My dad says he would rather not go there if he can possibly helpit.

Anyway I hoped you enjoyed that folks.