RUNNING SCARED

Rachel Pither, 27, of Maldon, Essex

Standing in my bedroom, I watched the window open and close on its own, then the door slam shut. Some children might have screamed and run out of the room. Others might have told themselves it was just the wind.

Not me.

‘Hi, Grandpa,’ I said brightly, talking to the empty room.

I grew up with spirits but was never scared

I was only six years old but had lived with ghosts in our family home for as long as I could remember. Grandpa’d had a room with us and had died when I was a baby. Ever