GHOSTS OF RUSHDEN AND OTHER TALES

OTHER TALES

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Samantha and Lucy Thompson remember returning from school one dusk. As they walked up through the village a large, feline, shape crossed their path. Far too large to be an ordinary cat ,it turned and looked at them with gleaming, red eyes before disappearing into the gloom. They got home literally shaking in their shoes. 

Many people have come a cropper in Friar's Wood where a coach and four is reputed to have sunk without trace. Gillian Robertson tells us she's nearly lost a horse in the well known boggy patch there. Although no ghosts seem to be related to this particular incident, Margaret Auld tells us that she regularly sees a lady in white passing along beside her house coming form the direction of the wood.

Our first village tale came from Sylvia Cotterell.

A few years ago she got back to her house late one night from a meeting and at 1am was sitting in her living room too tired to sleep when she saw a white van pull into her drive. Terrified she called the Police.
The woman at the other end of the phone was very reassuring and said "Don't worry. Just stay talking to me until the Police car arrives. " Sylvia waited in fear for them to come and finally they arrived. It was
then that she discovered on going to the door that the white van had been the milkman's!