Longford Village Ghosts

If you were there in his house, it was such a bizzaar house to like be in. He used to have this dining room with this huge long table, a huge long table with all these old fashioned chairs, with leather, really uncomfortable to sit on. And as you come out of there and as you come to the front door, there was the hallway, and there was old, oak, dull stairs and a room to the left that we used to go watch tv and movies in, and that was creepy in there. We used to scare the heck out of ourselves when we used to watch horror movies - you should have stayed in this house man!
And then he had the fire that burnt upstairs, and that changed the way it felt... downstairs didnt change, cause when the fire went up, it damaged the roof and they had to re-structure it upstairs, and so when they restructured it, they did it differently, they put a loft conversion in there, and his bedroom got smashed through, and they made that into a bigger bedroom and he had like two bedrooms smashed through into one, and then the old bedroom he used to have got turned into a bathroom, but the four poster bedroom stayed exactly as it was, like literally, it was weird like a time warp and still, even after the fire, no-one liked going in there! It was a big house, but it still felt small. It felt bigger once he had it re-done, and Regus Business Center hadnt been built yet - that was a later thing.

...an eiry room, thats what it felt like! The door would be shut, upstairs was a big, long corridor, and his bedroom was burnt down, and when it was rebuilt, it was slightly different, but that haunted room funny enough, didnt get badly damaged even though it was in one of the main places - it was weird, so it still felt creepy even though they had the house redone, it still reminded you every time, almost like everything felt exactly the same, that corridor was still the same - they did a really good job at redoing it. Even before the fire, I used to stay there as a kid, and use a bedroom that they changed to a bathroom, I used to stay in that bedroom with him, then there was the main bedroom, and then there was the four poster bed in the bedroom next door to that, and the ghost was in that four poster bedroom. I didnt see the ghost, but my mate saw her, and his mom and dad had seen her... she was in a white dress, and would come out of the room, walk down the corridor, then just dissappears. It would give you goosebumps, but I never found her, I'd always make sure the door was shut! I used to hate the room, even though, one year, I remember we stayed there, and it was the storms of '87 - big massive storms, and I stayed there in that room, and his bedroom was right next door to it, and it was horrible man, we were watching out the window, and everything was falling down, the wall came down, it was crazy.
I dont know why they bulldozed the house. He had quite a bit of land, and the factory there, and he had this garden, and the garden went straight back, and they had like an "L", and the garden went behind this other persons house. The factory was where his dad David Degents built Triumph Desda's - it was an old school racing bike, and he used to hand build it all the way from scratch - he had everything in that workshop, he would build the cogs, the lot, everything from scratch in that factory. And he used to race them.

I was friends with him from nursery school, and we'd been going round there since '85, and the Bath road wasnt cobbled then - the Margaret Cassidy house was there and the Quaker Tudor house was there across the road - but no Yew tree nor grave stones. When I was a kid, I used to have nightmares, and my mates house was in my nightmares, it was a re-occuring nightmare, and I used to have to deliver papers to that house, and it was creepy, it was aweful! It had a big old Tudor front door where the monsers lived, and it used to drag me in. He must have sold up and moved out on the early 2000's.

From the Bath Road, you'd drive through the main gates, up his driveway, and you'd come round to the front of the house, there used to be a little pond here and the big scary tree and you'd go in the front door (which was facing the Bath Road), into the hallway. Over to the left was a living room, and over to the right you'd have the dining room, and infront of you the staircase going up. There was another little room behind the staircase - it was like a sewing room/play room type thing.

Then if you came up the old oak stairs, they brought you back round and they brought you this way, to the landing, and at the top of the stairs to the right was the corridor that went down here to the end room... and that was the bedroom towards the back of the house. Below that room was the kitchen. There was a little room next door to it, and then there was the bathroom, with another room further along.

After the fire, they bashed all that through, so there was a massive big room, then a bathroom, then that would still be the end room. And the ghost used to come out of that end room, and go down that corridor. She was in white, she used to come down, a lady. They didnt know who she was, it was just the whole thing, like they used to see her come out the room, walk down the corridor, and that was it. Her precence was just down the corridor. No one wanted to go in that end room, there was a four poster bed , I think someone actually died in that room, and no one would sleep in that room - not even my little mate Olie - he used to hate that room as well.

The bathroom was ok, and it was rebuilt when it burned down in the fire. They moved the bathroom where his old bedroom was, which was right next door to the four poster bedroom, that the corridor was there, and you had the rooms going like that, bu the four poster bedroom was a door straight at the end of the corridor into the little room. As little kids we'd sleep in Olie's room which was next door to it. That little room was spooky, cause it was only a little room considering the size of the house compared to the rest.

When they moved out, he must have been about twenty. That ghost had an appearance every now and then, it was supposed to be like, someone had died in that room, I know someone had died in that room, whether it was actually related to the ghost I dont know. It was an old room, proper four poster bed with a thing round the top of it. There was an old sideboard in there, victorian sideboards, everything was very old and sort of looks like no one every wanted to be in that room. No one used that room. It was like the room was non-existant. No one wanted to be in there - whenever you wanted to feel scared, you'd go into that room. It was one of them rooms that you'd be just captivated, it was like... I dont want to go in there, I dont want to go in there! Its that everyone hated it. Everyone had been in there at some point, but no one wanted to go in there. It was the room that no one wanted to enter. It was always the door, the door that you'd want shut for that room.

His mum and dads room was like quite big, with a big walk-in wardrope and a massive big bathroom over the other side of the house. Very weird proportions - they had this massive big room on one side with a walk-in wardrope and a bathroom, and behind that was the sewing room there, and then there was the corridor. So there was your landing, then obviously the room over there, and all the rooms down there, sewing room in the middle, and then that end corridor down there and the other room down there at the back there. It was an old tudor double storey house, single pane windows, just the typical reallyold tudor house. (google "Dave Degens" for a video of his dad, who made these Dresda classic motorcycles that he used to make and race em - the triumph that they used to make in the factory across from the house - his old business, thats the guy, man!

When heathrow demolished this haunted house, they wanted the Tudor house next door, but he's not selling nor moving. Its behind the wall!