A few years ago when I was 18, I was dating a girl from Edinburgh. Now this place has quite a lot of history so ghost tours are common but one stands out as being famous due to the fact that it has an extremely well documented case of a poltergeist called the Mackenzie Poltergeist. After having read the book written by the founder1 of the City Of The Dead tour I was really looking forward to going on it.
The tour starts off by taking you around Edinburgh and telling you stories of certain parts, but it all kicks off when they take you into a place called the covenanters prison. In this small cemetery2 is the Black Mausoleum where the poltergeist is. Many people have felt cold spots in this tomb and have left the tour only for cuts and welts to appear later. Part of the tour is for all of the participants to be locked in the tiny mausoleum for ten minutes. Now while I was in there I felt things touching3 me and heard scratching noises on the walls and ceiling of this sandstone tomb. While this wouldn't be uncommon4, what happened to me after I left that still scares me.
After enjoying the whole thing I left the graveyard5 to return home to the flat but as I was exiting the cemetery I felt something come with me, a heavy kind of feeling, as if there was something on my back but not physically6. This continued all the way home which was quite a long walk. When we got there we were the only two in the house, save for the cats, or so we thought. It wasn't long before I felt something in the house with us, like the presence of a man standing7 in the kitchen. I'm quite sensitive to these things so I knew it wasn't my imagination.
Making my way towards the kitchen, carrying the cat because the girl wouldn't come with me, I stepped into the hall. Now the one thing you should know about this house is that it always like a furnace, but the cold spot in the hall actually took my breath away, it was freezing! I refused to go any further and went back to the bedroom to sit with the girl. The scary thing was that she isn't very sensitive to things like this but she described to me something she felt standing in the hall and it matched the description of the man I felt in the kitchen. This scared the utter hell out of me because what I felt was a tall man, with long greasy8 hair but I couldn't make out his face.
To this day I still have no idea what followed me home but I was terrified and I'd rather not find out.
故事发生在几年前,那时我刚好十八岁,正在跟爱丁堡的一个女生约会。当时,这个地方的鬼怪旅游就已经具备非常长的历史了,拓展得也很常见,但其中有一个独一无二的地方很有名,由于这里出了一个叫做麦肯斯的闹鬼,并且据了解对这个鬼还有着很充分的考证。在拜读了景点死亡城开创者所写的书后,我由衷地憧憬着能到此一游。
在旅游开始时,他们会携带你绕着爱丁堡转转,向你介绍一些景点。只有当他们将你带入一个叫做神圣盟约监狱的时候,旅游才算真的开始,这是一块面积不大的坟墓,这里有一个叫做黑陵的墓地,里面就住着那个闹鬼。在墓地里,很多人都会感到阴森森的,里面的磕磕绊绊也总是吓得他们提前结束游程。在游览中有一部分内容是把游客关在一个非常小的墓穴里,让他们在里面呆十分钟。当我被关在这座用砂岩砌成的墓穴时,感觉到有哪些东西一直在碰着我, 并且还听到在穴壁和顶部有唰唰的擦划声。假如这还算是正常的话,那样在我走后所发生的事情到今天还让我心有余悸。
在参加完所有些旅游项目后,我就离开坟墓回家了,在当我走出坟墓的时候,我感觉到是有哪些东西跟我一块走了出来,并且仿佛是有哪些无形的东西压在我的背部上,这种感觉很强烈。尽管回家的这段路很远,但这种感觉在路上一直就没间断过。当大家回家后,除去几只猫外,屋子里就只有大家两个人,至少在大家看来应该是如此的。但就在大家回家不久,我却感觉到屋子里还有哪些东西跟大家在一块,感觉上仿佛有个男性站在厨房里,我对这种事情是很敏锐的,因此我感觉这决不是幻觉。
于是我就直奔厨房,因为那个女生不想跟我一块去,我就携带那只猫,当我进到客厅时,忽然感到这个地方冰凉异常,我吓得大方不敢喘一下,你是否了解,这所房屋一直以来就跟个火炉似的,而目前却冰冻寒冷。我不敢再前进一步,于是又回到卧室坐在女生的旁边。而可怕的是,这个女生这个时候居然也感觉到仿佛有哪些东西在客厅站着,而她对这种事情向来是不敏锐的,并且她所描述的跟我所感觉到的完全吻合。这下我可真是给吓得魂飞魄散,由于我所感觉到是一个高个男子,披散着长发,头发上满是油污,但我一直没法辨认出他的模样。
直到目前,对于到底是什么跟我回了家,我仍然一无所知。但,我非常害怕,我更期望永远都不要了解。