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and a lightly patterned geometric design, the sort of garment that
could be worn by day or night. Believing that this person was an
intruder, I immediately sat up at which point the apparition
disappeared. I never saw the it again.
In 1996, we purchased 8Reeds and Hammetts9 from Mr and Mrs
Gutteridge. At the time, we were living in Oxfordshire and used the
property as a holiday home. There was much that needed to be done.
One November evening, when at home in Oxfordshire, I received a call
from our builder who said that that afternoon he had had a very
unsettling experience when installing the airing cupboard. He was alone
in the building. Suddenly, he experienced the sensation of being
watched. Although there was no one there, he was sufociently unnerved
by the experience that he immediately went home. There is one onal
experience, which I had about 15 years ago. We were sleeping in the
main bedroom. I awoke suddenly in the middle of the night (about 3am).
My wife Susie was asleep. As it was a moonlit night, there was some light
in the room. I noticed the apparition of what appeared to be a young
woman moving from left to right at the foot of the bed. This lasted
perhaps a matter of seconds. I have never had a similar experience since
and Susie has had none at all. The house is now free from anything which
might be regarded as supernatural. But you can9t ignore the fact that in
the last 40 years, seven people have had an 8unearthly9 experience at
8Reeds and Hammetts9.
Chris and Susie Cope
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