My paranormal journey started when I was at my primary school. The previous night I had borrowed my cousins book called Usborne Guide To The Supernatural World. It was three books which were sold separately but all together as one. I remember the pages on 'how to search for a ghost' and the pictures which filled my mind with wonder.
The next day, age 7 of 8 I guess, I created a ghost team with two other boys. We were in a ghost gang which had us sit together at playtime and throw all that we'd heard about the paranormal into a conversation and intrigue each other. I'd heard that the school toilets were haunted .......had i though.....I honestly can't remember .....maybe I totally made that up just to entertain myself and my team. We stood in the toilets together for about a minute and then when no ghost appeared, we used the facilities and left.
I fooled myself a lot back then. As my ghost team ran home, down the hill from school one afternoon, we imagined that had the bikes from The Hair Bear Bunch under us. This was a cartoon, popular at the time in which the Bears would ride on unseen bikes as their legs spun in a blur beneath them. I remember commenting that I could actually feel the bike under my body as we leaped down the grass slope atop our imaginary bikes.....from a cartoon.
Reality and illusions were closely packed for me on those days.
Then something happened. I can't pin down what happened in what order for sure but over the years I've asked my mum questions here and there and have been worried to discover that some things I'd wished were an illusion, had reality attached.
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