Hi all

I was reading through some ghost stories from around the UK, and came across a very freaky one and thought others might like it.

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My Grandfather always used to tell us this story every Christmas after all the food was eaten and darkness crept in the topic always came around to ghost stories. My grandparents and their parents had had their fair share of supernatural experiences.

It was the year 1948 November my granddad Cyril Barry had just come out of the army he had fought for his country in Italy, North Africa and Holland during World War 2. He had spent the evening with some of his colleges at the legion Club in Street (Somerset). My grandfather admitted to having several drinks, but swears he was not drunk. He walked home alone his house was only 15 minutes away the time was 11.30pm when he left the club.

Most people had retired for the night, in 1948 with no television most people went to bed at 11.00pm. With no street lighting and very few house lights the walk home was almost in pitch blackness. The weather was also cloudy it had been raining so there was very little moonlight to navigate with. Halfway home my Cyril saw lights in the ground floor window of a house up ahead. Cyril decided he could do with a cigarette before he retired for the evening and as my grandmother wouldn’t let him smoke in the house he had better have one now. Cyril decided to use the ambient light from the window to roll a cigarette. He lit the cigarette and turned and glanced through the window that he had his back to. The sight before him made the hairs on the back of this neck stand to attention, my grandfather had seen numerous horrors during the war but the sight before him scared him more than any of those.

Sat at a large table in a large crimson room was a person with a goats head, the head had two horns each about 10 inches in length. The goats head was white it also had a hairy beard, the thing did not seem aware of my granddad outside. My granddad could not see anyone else in the room the thing appeared to be alone. My granddad ran all the way home, scared out of his wits and told my grandmother what he had seen.

The next day he retraced his walk home and found the house where he had seen the goat headed person. The house where he had seen the thing was empty it looked to have been empty for some time the table he had seen in the centre of the room was covered with a dust sheet and the crimson paint looked chipped and faded. My granddad tried to avoid passing this house from then on and took an alternative route home for several months until the house was bought and occupied.

My granddad was never quite sure what he had seen he thought that perhaps it was a devil worshiper, perhaps even the devil himself.


Story sent in by Damon Rudge
Location: Street, Somerset

Found here

I personally would say that this was someone playing a joke on anyone that was nosy enough to look into the window I know I would have done. I reckon its just a dead goat propped up so it appears its sitting up at the table the man said it did not seem to notice him indicating that it was motionless........ On a Erie dark night anyone seeing that sitting up at a table is going to be frightened half to death I know I would be.

All the best
Faeden

Hi Faeden,

I'd go along with worshipers, maybe he was even seeing an image/ echo of a past event.

Hi Tia

That is possible yeah, but if it was a residual energy thing, why would it be of a man with a goats head? Most residual energies recorded where ritual has taken place involves hearing chanting, or seeing people gathered together, or the feeling of dark energies ect.

I think someone’s dressed up a dead goat as a person. Its a small village and I bet the kids get board and get up to all sorts of pranks. If it really was some goat headed being, then that is creepy as hell, hey I might of even converted to Christianity if I saw something like that

I used to dress my dog star in humans clothes, because it was humorous, and she sometimes would go and guard the house still in PJ's and sunglasses, and people would look in the window and see her, but most laughed rather than ran off lol

Here she is in shades



All the best
Faeden

Possibly he was drunk, hillusinating, effected from the war? I can't imagine a man with a goats head relating to a ghost story? I would say he either was drunk, hillusinating, or was just effected from the war. But thats my opinion? Otherwise, its pretty wierd man.

I would have to go with it being a dead goat propped up. It's pretty morbid, but I most certainly wouldn't put it past some people.

Hi Mysteryman

I never thought of the war causing hallucinations a possibility, that is a good possibility though

All the best
Faeden

Yup! Many people who got out of wars became depressed due to the horrible things they saw. Seeing their best friends get shot in front of their faces, they hatred they grew with against their enemies, blood everywhere, grenades everywhere, gunshots and bombshells going off every second - people get effected from this and start to imagine things. They hear bullets going off when meantime its dinner. And thank you.

Mysteryman is right.

Damn those goatmen. I keep telling them: "If you're going to live among humans, then draw the bloody curtains at night." But do they listen? Noooooo....they just bleat, and then try and eat my underwear.

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Lol at seph, and wow...your dog is the cutest!

My cats lay in funny ways.

Lol.my cat lays on his back with paws sticking up

Haha, mine does too. I have several pictures.

Yea,gettin of topic though now