A Weed-Smoking Poltergeist? Must be Cannock Chase!
Living in a flat above a shop usually means you are subjected to many unusual smells and sounds during the daytime depending on the niche in which that shop exists. If you spent your time in a dwelling located above a bakery for instance, you’d probably wake up feeling hungry every day due to the pastries being cooked only a few metres away from your bed. If you lived above a hairdressers, you might even have to keep your windows closed during the day. However, nobody really thinks about what might happen at night until it’s too late.
Sarah Mills lived on her own and so she rented the cheapest property she could find. She split from her last boyfriend more than six months ago, and apart from going to work, rarely moved from in front of her television. The flat she rented was directly above a sandwich shop in the village of Heath Hayes, just outside of Cannock.
She would wake every morning to the smell of fried bacon and sausage, but that didn’t bother her too much. In fact, she never once complained about a smell during the daytime. It was the ones at night that begam to cause a problem.
Sarah had been living in the flat for around three months when she first began to notice something odd happening during the early hours of the morning. She would wake up in her bed and instantly get the strongest whiff of cannabis smoke. Sarah presumed someone was going into the shop downstairs at night and smoking it, or maybe they were even growing it in a backroom or something. After a couple of nights of this, Sarah decided to investigate.
One morning, just before she left for her office job, Sarah nipped into the sandwich shop beneath her flat and approached the counter. She asked the ladies working there if they could ever smell weed, and she explained what had been happening during the night. The ladies were perplexed, and slightly amused, but they were adamant the pungent odor was definitely not coming from their shop. They did, however, agree to check their CCTV cameras in case someone had been sneaking in during the night.
That evening, Sarah arrived home to find a note pushed through her front door.
BUY Ghosts of Cannock Chase: Terrifying reports of paranormal activity from the UK's most haunted town HEREIt was from the ladies downstairs who run the sandwich shop. They explained that the CCTV didn’t show anything unusual, and so the smell must be coming from somewhere else. The issue was, there was literally nowhere else it could be coming from. Sarah was confused, but her quest for discovering the truth only strengthened.
That evening, at the same time as the last few nights, Sarah awoke in her bedroom to the strong smell of marijuana. But this time something was different. She couldn’t place her finger on it, but she almost felt like she was being watched. All of a sudden, Sarah jumped out of bed and ran towards her living room after hearing the sound of something smashing. It was a photograph of her brother. The frame and glass were both smashed, and the picture lay on her living room carpet.
Sarah’s brother passed away three years ago at the age of 33. He suffered a sudden heart attack and never recovered. The doctors said he had some unusual health defect that he’d lived with his entire life. They just discovered it too late to offer treatment. Another interesting thing about Sarah’s brother is that he loved to smoke.
Everything fell into place, and Sarah realised her brother was most likely attempting to make contact from beyond the grave.
She did some research online to find out if there was anything she could do to assist her brother’s spirit to communicate, and she decided to order a ouija board. It would arrive two days later, but things didn’t exactly go according to plan.
Sarah decided she would wait until she was awoken by the smell of cannabis again before she used the ouija board, but right on cue, that happened the following night. Sarah ran into her living room and sat down near the board. She placed her fingers on the glass and said “does anyone want to communicate?” In a flash, three ornaments on her mantelpiece flew across the room, and the glass under her fingertips began to move. The glass spelled out the word “run.”
Just then, every door in Sarah’s flat slammed shut, and the floor began to rumble. She was worried it was an earthquake, but her logical mind told her this was something paranormal. Sarah, taking advice from the ouija board, got up from the table and exited her flat. She walked down the stairs and into the road in front of the building. As Sarah glanced up at her living room window, she saw what she describes as a demon with horns and red eyes glaring back at her.
Needless to say, Sarah moved out of that flat the very next day. She told her landlord there was a rat problem to avoid losing her deposit, and found somewhere else to live locally.
She now believes her brother wasn’t the only spirit attempting to make contact with her. She believes her brother used to smell of cannabis to get her attention, as she knew he loved to smoke, and then warned her just in time about an evil force looking to either take over the space or worse, maybe even possess her.
No matter what the truth might be, Sarah seems to have had a lucky escape.
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