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Claire Underwood, now manageress of the Trip to Jerusalem,
has witnessed many strange events in the past five years. She is a confident person
and expressly denies that previous tales have coloured her views.
About 18 months into her stewardship Claire was moving boxes
out of her flat in the pub, as it doubles as the auditors聮 office.
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Claire took the first box of three which she was moving to
the attic to make space for the accounts.
"I was aware that somebody was following some three stairs behind me. I dismissed
it as fanciful, but a chill came over me that was hard to ignore."
Sending shivers
"The first chill I could ignore, but the second time I climbed the stairs
I saw a shimmering black shape that had no place in a badly lit corridor. In that
light a natural substance could not have shimmered. I did not believe what I saw,
I was tired, I imagined it."
"I picked up the third box in a determined mood, but the presence retaliated
by seeming to grow stronger. I ran to my flat and locked the door."
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She told herself not to be so ridiculous and sat down in the
lounge of her flat to relax. But she couldn't, something seemed to hover across
the courtyard in the other side of the pub that would not let her or her cat rest.
Always there
Nothing happened for 18 months and she started to put the incident down to tiredness.
Everything was going smoothly until聟
Claire was in bed reading. Just as she fell asleep someone
pressed their hand on the side of the bedclothes. She doubted herself until she
tried to set them straight again聟
On Monday, the 8th of October 2001, the landlady was reading
in her flat, dug into the castle walls. Some scratching alerted her. The cat was
obviously on the roof again.
She was in bed so she threw her dressing gown on, cursing the cat called Daisy.
The hairs really stood out when she discovered the cat sound asleep on a windowsill.
Claire walked back up to her flat, growing concerned. The scratching
moved to the wall next to her bed. She called the police. They responded within
minutes and searched the building but found nothing.
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