The Spectral Sock Swiper (credit: Fortean Times)

Fortean Times has posted three creepy excerpts from Volume Two of their It Happened To Me! True-life Encounters with the Paranormal series. Check out the Spectral Sock Swiper below. Definitely sounds like a great Halloween read.

In 1959, when I was 19 years old, I visited Alnwick in Northumberland to see a friend. One afternoon, at about 2.00pm, I was waiting for a bus in very bad weather, with thick snow everywhere. Standing to my right was an elderly lady. She wore a long black dress and shawl around her shoulders, her hair pulled back in a bun, her face very thin with deep, tired and sunken eyes.

She commented on the cold day and then asked me if she could have a couple of pairs of socks. It was only then that I noticed that her feet were bare. I took off my socks and handed them to her. She thanked me, put them on and as I stood there watching she simply vanished into thin air! Needless to say, my socks went with her. I presumed she had died in or near that spot and that other people had seen her; perhaps many pairs of socks were now in her spirit possession. I was glad to help this poor unfortunate lady and maybe ease the pain of this earthbound soul. Throughout the encounter, she looked as real and as solid as a living human being.

Mrs VA Martin, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, 1998 {source: Fortean Times}

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