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Here,
35 years later, she tells her story in her own words |
"I
am a very rational person, but cannot find an explanation for the following experience
I had in 1969.
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| Erika
Seetzen-Woods in 1969 |
We had moved
into our new house in Garmston Road, Sutton Farm, Shrewsbury, on June 6th,1966.
I was
standing at the kitchen sink one morning in October 1969 when I saw a hooded figure
slowly moving past from the right to the left on a higher level from where I was
standing. Since
it was not a bird or shadow I dismissed it as an optical illusion.
I
had to enter hospital for a biopsy in that month. Everything went off well after
my operation and I carried on as normal with my daily routine.
Then,
one day in November of that year, I opened the kitchen door, which lead into the
garage and straight ahead of me, past the garage window, I saw the same hooded
figure moving slowly from right to left.
It
was a lovely, bright day and I told myself that it must be a shadow.
Days
afterwards I had a haemorrhage and found myself back in hospital.
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| "Tears
were rolling down my face and goose bumps were visible on my arms"
Mrs
Seetzen-Woods pictured outside her home, July 1968 |
Just over
a week later I was at home again with a new appointment to enter hospital on 29
December for a hysterectomy.
About
10 days before Christmas, on a beautiful sunny day, I was pondering the marvellous
weather so late in the year. I
was leaning against the kitchen sink and looking down the sunlit corridor towards
my front door, when the same hooded figure moved away from me, above ground level,
along the corridor, disappearing through the front glass door. Tears
were rolling down my face and goose bumps were visible on my arms.
On
two occasions the hooded figure was seen by me outside my house, but this time
it was inside and leaving!
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| Garmston
Road sign | I
ran down the corridor and opened the front door. Beautiful day in December, warm
sunshine embracing me, mothers walking past with their small children, which gave
me a sense of reality.
Christmas
came and we all enjoyed it very much.
I entered hospital on December 28th.
The operation went well and I was home again on 8 January 1970.
I
never saw the hooded figure again.
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| Was
the hooded figure the ghost of a medieval monk? | Back
in 1968, before the hooded figure had first appeared, my 10-year-old son was playing
near our house where diggers were at work, preparing the ground for further house
and bungalow building, when he together with his young friend found an amount
of bones. His
friend took the majority home to his mother, who threw them away.
I
kept the few bones, vertebrae, skull and jawbones with teeth, in a box with cotton
wool.
In
1970, I realised that the hooded figure and the discovery of the bones may have
been linked, so I visited the curator at Shrewsbury Museum and was told that the
ground where our house stood had been a cemetery. The
bones in my possession were those of a child.
The
burial ground would have been at a higher level and the monks would have been
walking on that level. That's why the apparation I saw seemed to be walking in
the air.
I still have the bones from the excavation in my possession."
Erika
Seetzen-Woods
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