Haunted Holiday
Bit of a pearoast, but:

My entire family fled - FLED - Amityville Horror-style from a harbourside holiday cottage in Brixham a few years ago.

Perhaps taking the cat stirred things up with the spirit world, but from the first day, there were bumps in the night, the sound of draws opening and closing, furniture moving about and the dread fear of being watched in the bathroom.

Tuesday evening, I came out of the kitchen, to see a wizzened old bloke sitting next to the wife on the sofa.

"Ssssss!" he went, all the time staring at her bosooooms* before disappearing into thin air.

Then - screaming from the kids upstairs: "There's a man in our room!"

A man, dressed as a fisherman in oilskins and sou'wester, who left through the wardrobe.

That night, as we lay in our beds, quaking in fear, the furniture went mental downstairs.

Two weeks' holiday. We were out by the first Wednesday.

Full 12-inch version HERE

* Like normal bosooms, only bigger
( Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:03, 1 reply)

Just as
I'd finished reading the longer version, there was a giant rumble of thunder outside. Scared the bejeezus out of me. Reading this QOTW at home alone was a bad idea...
(Mr. In-Between has regretted posting this ever since, Thu 3 Jul 2008, 16:28, closed)