Man with grey skin (probably a smoker) haunts 5 year old.

D B Sweeney

A father has told how his five-year-old son claims he has been troubled by visions of a ghostly man with grey skin who speaks to him in the night.
Dave Gerrity, 41, said his son Dagan first complained about seeing something in his bedroom in the family's Bridlington home around six months ago.
Mr Gerrity said: 'Dagan is scared about it. He cries about it. He's told us that at night he can't sleep because a man with grey skin comes and sits on his bed and keeps him awake talking to him.
'The first time it happened, Dagan's mum Emma and I heard him crying on the baby monitor. I went up to him and he was just crying his eyes out.
'At first I thought it was just his imagination, or he had had a bad dream.
'Of course you never expect this kind of thing to be true, I've never believed in this kind of thing before. But there's no denying it now.
'There have been times when we've been in the room with him and we see him looking up into the corner of the room and speaking.'
Mr Gerrity also told how the 'ghost' was seen shuffling furniture in his son's bedroom.
He added: 'We have a double bed in the room which is balanced on its side, and there's a blue plastic table on top of it.
'Dagan told me that in the night, the table was picked up and moved by itself.
'This table is much too high for him to reach himself. I've put him to bed when the table has been on top of the bed, then come back in the morning to find it moved.
Mr Gerrity told how guests to his home say they have also spotted the face of a man on the walls on the dining room of their three-storey house after it was re-plastered.
'The wall was completely stripped back before it was plastered and there was nothing on it, no pattern.
'But when the plaster was drying, we could see a face start to appear. Now there is a 6ft by 6ft face of a man on the wall.
'People come round to our house and see it straight away - you can't miss it. It spooks everybody out.
'I've been plastering for 24 years and never seen anything like this before."
The family's next-door neighbours, on the other side of the re-plastered wall, say they have also experienced paranormal activity.
Mr Gerrity said: 'I've been in my house and heard banging coming from the top floor next door.
'I know they've been doing some refurbishment so I expected it was workmen, as I could hear sawing and chatter.
'But then, my next door neighbour came round and said "Dave, please come round and look upstairs, I can hear noises and there's no-one else in".
'I've gone to look for myself and she's right - there's no-one up there.
'The whole thing has got us really spooked. My wife wants to move, she doesn't want to stay in the house anymore.
'It's a shame because we've just done up the house, but it's even creepy for me. I'm a bit scared to be downstairs in the dining room by myself.
'I think that all the work that's been going on - both next door and in our house - has disturbed a spirit.'

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DB

thecactus · Joined: 07 Mar 2011 Posts: 3198 Location: Northern Ireland

I wouldn't get excited about 'the face in the wall', but maybe the boy is seeing a spirit.

flossy · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 2:42 pm Post subject:

i wounder if they have caught anything on camera?
that face is pretty clear, if it were me i would of covered it by now lol

carlos2010 · Joined: 23 Oct 2010 Posts: 288

Just read the article.

Second bullet point 'Ghost' seen shuffling furniture in boy's bedroom.

Seen by who?

And the first picture, a 5 year old boy supposedly scared by the "activity" and wakes up screaming etc.

Mother - "What can we do to help him?"
Father - "I know, we will go public and get a picture of the wee man in front of the big 6ft scary wall face"

And another point, of all the people to be able to pull a 6ft scary face appearing in plaster, a plasterer would be the best person to do it.

D B Sweeney · Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 12:33 am Post subject:

I see a very vague impression of a sort of face in the plaster, nothing more but IMO it's just random staining in the plaster that the human brain is interpreting as a face - it's what the brain has evolved to do because it used to stop us being eaten by big creatures with sharp teeth.
Also, what 5 year old doesn't have an active imagination?. If the parents are reinforcing the child's imaginations by agreeing that there's a ghostly face in the wall they're not helping matters and they're prolonging whatever fears the kid has.
Children today are exposed to far more imagery via the media than 30 years ago - some of that imagery will, by it's nature, be potentially scary and influence the minds of impressionable young children who don't have the same ability to separate imagination from reality as adults - even then, some adults have difficulty Very Happy

Overall, the parents are adding two and two and getting seven.
Easiest way to solve this is to have a camcorder running in the child's bedroom at night.

DB

bitterbuck1 · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:18 am Post subject:

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bitterbuck1 · Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:21 am Post subject:

As Flossy and DB suggested a video camera should be used.

Maybe the grey man is the boys imaginary friend.
A creepy one at that.