Hi I am Nigel.

I live in the UK and I am a single parent of one son, I teach my son at home, he is home educated because I had trouble with him running our of school all the time. I talk about that later.

My story begins when I was four years old, I had a vision while sleeping on the front room floor with my mother on an old mattress for a bed, our house was a three bedroom council dwelling, and I had seven older brothers and sisters living there, so me and my mother had to sleep on the ground floor, with old coats for blankets, my mother raised eight children in one house on her own with very little money from the government, we had help from the welfare, not much help though, we just got by week to week with improvising from fire wood to stealing coal from next doors garden shed, we had no electric or gas for four years, because my mother could not afford to pay the reconnection fee, the welfare or the government would not pay the bill, because my father had left my mother with the arrears and told her she must pay it. Well she never did. So we had to cook from an open fire in the kitchen, and wash in freezing cold water, and this was in 1971. When most people had hot running water and central heating.

So my early years in that house were very depressing and much unforgotten. This vision I had one night started by me waking up and staring at my mother next to me, I had wanted to go to the toilet for a wee. I

Tried waking my mother, as I looked around towards the fireplace I saw two people in white clothes staring back at me, each was standing beside the fire, a man and a woman I think or a smaller man or boy, I could not get a clear picture of the other person but I did get a good look at the man on the left, he was not very tall about five feet nine or ten inches, and slim build his face was nice but vague as he smiled very gently at me, I was amazed because I knew this was not an ordinary encounter by two people looking at me as you would meet two people in the street or ensnare. This was something special I knew that. I was very much awake as I needed the toilet and remember pushing my mother to wake her, I also look around to the window behind me and saw a gap in the curtains so I got a good look at the night sky, it was very cold and I saw some stars in the sky it was very clear, but you could see the frost in the air blowing by. Then I looked back again at the two people, they was still there, I don’t know why I turned away to look at the window or through it, maybe I thought it was a reflection, as it was a little vague to see them, remembering it was also dark in the room, we had candles to illuminate the rooms,

Although the candles were not lit at that time, the azure sky by early morning was bringing a little light into the room through the small gap into the curtains. That gave me enough light to see the figures.

At that time of my vision and years later I could never explain really what I saw and why. Just the description I wrote now. The two people vanished through the wall like mist in the night, and I never saw them again in that house. I lived there for thirty five years, on and off with my parents, having had other places of my own to live, with girlfriends and living on my own. But living in that house was weird and sometimes very frightening for me, as I heard noises and saw dark shadows in my bedroom; other people who stayed saw them too. My older brothers saw things in that house, like I did, the dark images moving around floor and odd smells like rotten eggs or sulphur that lingered around the house.

My whole family are witnesses to these events and other friends who stayed over night also saw these things. It was not a real threat in anyway to scare us all away, but it was there and it became the talk for some scary cold winters dark nights in, while we had no T.V, so we huddled around the coal and wood fire with over coats and hot mugs of tea and toast and listened to these ghost stories told by our older sister, I remember my two brothers sitting on the piss pot shitting them self’s with fear as it made a good laxative for their constipation.

After the vision I had I started to see signs in things, now this got very weird and strange, by the time I started secondary school, I remember one morning walking to school and looking at the floor in the street and noticed twigs from trees making crucifix shapes, every where I looked at the ground I kept seeing sticks and twigs that where made in to cross shapes, I asked my friends and they saw them as well, but never really made fuss about it. I suppose it was because I was seeing other signs as well as the crosses. I especially noticed the change in the seasons more than anything else, during my younger years, I remember the sky being very blue one morning like azure and the fluffy white clouds, now I had not seen this type of sky before, and it was very inviting to look at, as I nearly lost my step looking up at it, I felt a very strange kind of emotion that I had not felt before, all these news images and feelings where rushing into me, filling me with excitement and pleasure, I got a rush of ecstasy seeing the morning sun and the deep blue sky that I had never seen before, not like this. Funny how the early morning dawn can make you feel like that. Growing up was not easy with this affliction or illness I had, I started to see hidden messages in the bible, revelation, and seeing more shadows and dim lights like orbs of white and amber glowing on my bedroom walls and moving slowly across then going up out of the ceiling. my girlfriend also saw these lights, what she saw was two dimly lit amber orbs strait across from us on the wall, moving very slowly up out of the roof of the bedroom ceiling, it was really weird because there was nothing illuminating the room at that time no lights or any other source of light coming in to the room, or from outside, we could not make any sense from this at all, we were both amazed and talked about it for weeks to our friends and family. By the time I got to about thirty I was settling down and trying to get on with my life, as I had some bad times with relationships with girlfriends not working out,

And heart breaks I had to get over, not very pleasant as you know, I never really got over my first love, and the second was just as bad, as I gave her everything like all my love and soul, I worshipped her, then the third nearly killed me off, as I loved her very very much, she took it all, that was the last love of my life, she was the one imp talking about now who saw the orbs and shadows in our house, it really scared her some days. She said she was pushed while hanging a coat up at the bottom of the stairs that fell off on its own, she felt a heavy hand on her back and she was shuffled forward very hard to the wall, it really spooked her that bad she ran out side and waited for me to come home. She was alone in the house at the time. we moved out soon after and fell apart because I was having a breakdown trying to cope with all this, as well as having to look after my mother and father who where very ill at the time, and needed much care, I was the only one running around for them both as they lived separately, my parents. Things where going very bad for me then, I lost my job as a taxi driver because I assaulted some one who needed a good hiding for the things they did to me, while I was with my girlfriend, he slept with her.

Knowing full well I was away working nights, I got four months in prison for hitting him with my hands. He got one black eye and bruised ribs and the rest of his days with my girlfriend. While she threw me out into the streets with no where to go at night. The next day I was arrested by the police for assault.

Nigels Story pt 2