Ghostly Encounters?
In my early twenties I lived in the Lake Macquarie area, and
worked at two liquorstax bottle shops – one in Dora Creek (an old ramshackle
chook-shed-lookalike that is now pulled down) and one in Morisset. I had ghostly experiences at both these shops.
The first experience was in Morisset. I’d walked outside
from the cold shop into the warm morning sun, and when I turned around, where the sun
streamed into the shop was a shadowy man. His features and everything were obvious
even though you could see through him. It was as though the suns rays revealed his form. He didn’t move, just stood there right
near the fridges. I’m not sure how long he stayed there, but I didn’t gawp too
long, just got on with my work and chalked it up to seeing things – even though
I had more than one customer get the shivers and tell me they thought someone
was behind them. When I told a co-worker offhandedly about what I saw, she was
so relieved as she thought she was going crazy – she’d seen him too. I’m
guessing he’s a resident ghost as the manager at the time worked after hours
doing bookwork and heard doors slamming when there were none to be slammed.
My Dora Creek experience was vastly different. I worked
alone at this bottle shop at night, very rarely with another worker (unless it
was crazy busy on a Friday and Saturday night). I’d closed the whole shop up
and was balancing the till. I was actually crouched down and putting money into
the safe when my whole body prickled with alarm and I sensed someone behind me
(trust in those senses!) I had no other thought other than that someone had
broken in. Except when I turned around, in the doorway of my little room was a tall
white form, slightly see through with no visible features – but definitely a
human form. It was as though it was draped in a long, shining white cloth.
When it finally faded away (I have no idea of how long that
was two seconds or twenty!) I set the
alarm and I was out of there. Nothing balanced. Money thrown into the safe.
Books half done.
To this day I have no idea why it appeared behind me. But I’d
like to think that maybe there was a reason for my getting out of that shop
earlier (we had to step out from the shop into darkness – the safety factor was
zero).
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Mel Teshco's gypsy-like upbringing saw her living in many places along Australia's east coast. Each new home stimulated an already over-active imagination, where she spent as much time dreaming about fantasy worlds as the real world - the fantasy sometimes being much better.
Now living in (claustrophobic) suburbia while building on a
rural property to keep her two horses, four cats and one hyperactive Belgian
shepherd happy, she is (mostly) happily married with an ever hopeful husband
(he'd love to retire), three children of wide-spread ages and two
grandchildren.
She is a multi-published author with a love for the written
word along with a short attention span that sees her juggling a wide variety of
genres and heat levels in her stories. From contemporary to paranormal,
inspirational to erotic, she hopes there's a little of something for every
reader out there to enjoy. With too many stories in her head to keep up with,
there will be many more books to come.
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Whoa, that gave me the shivers, Mel!
ReplyDeleteTell me about it Christina - it gave me the chills at the time! LOL
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