Don't believe in ghosts,never have,but saw something once that i cant explain.
Many years ago at school there used to be a kind of after school club / volunteer program at the old chatterly whitfield pit,used to be good a good laugh,we would go down there explore at bit,hide and seek,footie just generally pissing about.
To get to the pit you would have to walk down a narrow country lane with steep enbankments covered with trees on either side of the road
Me and 2 other lads set off down the road after school,its only 5 mins walk down the road,just before we went round the last bend and under the entrance i glimpsed something at the top of the bank standing between 2 trees,the perfect outline of a man but completely jet black with a black halo around his body,i could make out he had a flat cap on and was holding something in his right hand,don't know what couldnt make it out but he just stood at the top of the bank head slowly turning as we walked past,looked back when we got to the entrance and he was off the bank and standing in the middle of the road about 30ft away,just standing there exactly the same pose as at the top of the bank.
Mates never saw anything they thought i was taking the piss out of them,they still do,neither of them believe me to this day.When we finally made it to the rest of the group the couple who were in charge tried to send me home because i was that shaky and pale they thought i was ill until i burst into tears because i couldnt face walking up the road on my own so i think to shut me up they gave me a lift home.
Covered in goosepimples writng that,i can still see the thing in my head now like it was yesterday,just the strangest thing iv ever seen,to this day if im walking the dog i tend to avoid walking past the pit entrance and walk the longer way round the fields.