I got up one night to go to the bathroom and on my way back to bed I looked out of the bedroom window. I saw, outside the window of
the house opposite, a shape passing backwards and forwards as if trying to see in. I thought it was a cat but realised that there
was no window sill to the house. It was like ours - a semi-detached with no window sills.
As my eyes got more used to the dark - it was about 2am - I could make out the shape of a man. The figure then came down the path but
it didn`t move like a person. It glided rather than swayed or bobbed and it seemed to be about a feet off the ground. I could not see
any feet.
It glided back along the path and, to my amazement, appeared in front of the shed next door. To get there it would have to pass
through a thick hedge, six feet high.
I was getting scared now, when a car stopped. A door slammed and the car moved off. The figure, sort of swaying, floated from
behind the shed and started to glide along the path towards our house. I was terrified.
Moving in a gliding way it seemed to pass through the hedge between our house and the others. I could see no face or feet. It wore a
long sort of cloak or coat and, all the time, seemed a foot off the ground.
I dived into bed and was terrified.
I mentioned this to my father the next day and he could think of no explanation, only to mention that a local farmer had a son who
was insane and who wandered abroad at night. But this did not explain the gliding motion or the floating above the ground or how
the figure passed through the hedge.
