Before coming to Wales from Scotland my first experience of a ghost was when my collie dog drew my attention to a man who seemed to be following us, his presence disturbing her.

This man kept a safe distance from us but suddenly vanished from sight leaving a distinct smell of pipe tobacco.

The next day when I was telling my friends about my experience my friend Daphne said it sounded so much like her father who incidently smoked a distinct pipe tobacco.

It was not until Daphne died that I realised that her father had come from Wales.

One year later work brought me south to Barry and I thought nothing of the fact that family friends had come from the area until things began to happen in my house.

My collie dog once again began to sense things, my computer began to switch itself on and that smell which was so distinct began to appear in different rooms of my new house, a smell which I associated from my ghostly experience back home.

Then one day a new smell appeared, the smell of perfume which Daphne used to wear.

Why does my computer switch itself on? The only way I can explain this to you is that before Daphne and her husband Jim (who died exactly a year after her) died they said that they would get in touch.

Jim's life was in computing and the best way they have found is through my computer, which, on the days it switches itself on, my collie becomes uneasy as if there is a presence with me which I cannot see but sense as real.

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