Brisbane

CRAIG AND GRANT'S VERY SPOOKY GHOST STORY
Craig and Grant rented a flat together at the top of an old house.  They were curious about the fact that it didn’t look terribly lived in - it didn't even have a phone line, but neither of them really believed in ghosts or even considered them much.  Consequently Grant didn't think anything of it when strange things started to happen.  Like the morning they woke up to find the chain on the front door had been attached.  Now this in itself wasn't THAT weird, except that they never put it on themselves.  For one thing it was too short - they couldn't actually GET it on.  They had to call a locksmith to get it off again, and were both late for work.  The other thing Grant noticed was that the ashtrays were always full of cigarette butts - no matter how often he emptied them - and they were always only half-smoked.  And neither of them smoked like that.  So far, no big deal.  Then one day, Grant was vacuuming when the shower came on full blast, so hard there was water all over the floor.
 
Still.  It's not the sort of thing you'd feel creepy about is it?  There COULD be an explanation for all of the above...  But then...
 
One night they were in bed, and Craig was awake having awoken from a nightmare.  "We always had nightmares in that bedroom," he explained.  As he lay in the dark he suddenly heard the sound of running footsteps, "And I knew it wasn't the guy across the hall because he's an old guy with a bad leg.  It sounded like a child's footsteps."
 
Then something jumped on the bed.
 
Craig could feel it on his leg.  Something jumping up and down with such force that he started screaming.  Grant woke up and screamed too, he said that Craig was actually physically coming up off the bed.  "Not floating - but really bouncing up high.  Then Craig shot out of bed and I found him curled up in a foetal position in the living room."
 
If you'd met Craig you'd realise this is not a man prone to hysterical attacks.  Something was seriously wrong.  The two of them sought advice and were told to talk to the spirit - just say hi when they came home and such.  After they started doing this they, "could always FEEL something there, but it never bothered us again."
 
Scary eh?  (I shall remove the flashlight from under my chin now.)
 
I was delighted to find out that Grant shares my obsession with Elizabeth Montgomery!  I know that many of you think I'm a sad bastard.  (You've told me.  Some of you more than once.)  But finally I met someone else who had grown up wanting to marry her.  I have to admit that my love for Elizabeth was more carnal in character, Grant's was much more pure - but he has actually taken things one step further than I in actually having an ELIZABETH MONTGOMERY WALL.  There are like half a dozen pictures of Elizabeth looking adorable there and Grant and I agreed we would watch his special documentary "Bewitched Exposed 2000" the next day. 
 
(This wasn't as exciting as the title might suggest.  Elizabeth NEVER did any off-colour stuff in her early years and I resent you for even THINKING that she might.)