ok, you shy people out there. i have a story, it's true but i don't know if it was a ghost. back in the mid-80's, i lived in kansas. would hear footsteps on the carpet out in the hall and no one was up. it would be really late at night. i also heard sounds from the basement. i knew that a little boy had died in the house but i never knew much about it. later, i learned that he had hung himself with a drapery cord (accidental) in the basement.

If it's ok with you, Wolfie dear, I am gonna paste stories here I have gathered because I have never seen one and I'd like to keep it that way! Did the footsteps scare you???

pasting is just fine. they did at first but since i heard nothing else, like stuff being moved or whatever, i figured it was the little boy or something (or just a vivid imagination)

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the following is from dave salisbury's "an occult guide to legendary london", at this URL: http://members.tripod.co.uk/Brit_Nephilim/page29.html "Christchurch, Spitalfields During the restoration work following the Great Fire of London, one of Sir Christopher Wren's contemporaries built a string of strange churches across the city. Nicholas Hawksmoor claimed to be following the ancient building traditions of the early Christian basilicas, but his obelisk-like spires and trompe d'oeuil effects have drawn admiration and conspiracy theorists in equal measures. Christchurch, Spitalfields is Hawksmoor's best example. Haunted does not describe the feeling of a church built atop a plague pit, over the road from what used to be the biggest abattoir in the world. A recent excavation of the crypt (now a drop-in centre for homeless alcoholics) unearthed a series of lead lined coffins full of liquefied corpses which archaeologists had to shovel out into bags for analysis. Does lead stop a Nephilim from returning to its stasis? Hmm. If anywhere in London is the site of a Black Moon Ka nexus, it's here." then there's this, from "spoilheap: burial archaeology", at this URL: http://www.spoilheap.co.uk/burintr.htm "The period from the beginning of the 16th century has been identified as the start of the modern era and is termed post-medieval by archaeologists. Historians date this change from the reign of Henry VII and his innovations in government. Most of the evidence for this period is historical rather than archaeological, but a few excavations have been carried out in post-medieval churches, notably in London (St. Bride's and Christchurch, Spitalfields) and Holland (Zwolle). Other archaeological methods have been used to record standing monuments in churchyards and other funerary objects. Spitalfields burial in coffins within crypts, often stacked in precarious positions, sometimes even on their heads excavated to recover a group of identifiable burials archaeologically for anthropological study. also provided an insight into 18th and 19th c. crypt burial customs, and a closely dated series of funerary artefacts. allowed for comparison of historical and archaeological data e.g. accounts of contemporary funerals compared with the total disarray of coffins and bodies within the crypts."

wow, thanks for this, marcia!