The Black Swan

Steve Jones, an attendee at the "Weird Weekend 2022" convention relates the following; "...this is what I was told by the maanger of The Black Swan about his experiences there over the last couple of years: Martin told me that apart from the usual glasses slipping off shelves with no reason etc, he had 3 events that shocked him.The first was when he was alone sleeping in the Elmhurst Room in the annex during lockdown. Something pounded on the door around 3 AM. He got up and realised he was the only one there. Nothing outside and nothing on CCTV when he checked either. Second was after they locked up the restaurant for the night. He was outside talking to 2 staff when they all saw a black shape go past the lit till in the room and blot it out,thinking they had left someone in they went back but nobody there. Last was as he locked up the bar one night something blew in his ear! That really scared him." Things were also to happen at the convention the following year and an account was provided by Jonathan Staton; at 4am on April 2nd 2023 he awoke quite suddenly feeling pressure on his left foot but when he tried to move it, he felt resistance there preventing his limb from moving. With a little determination he manged to free his leg and soon afterwards heard a "distinct giggle ... high pitched like a child would do." This was heard twice and came from the side where his wife was sleeping. Later on after rising, Jonathan took a break from breakfast to use his room's toilet. As he says, "As I rounded the top of the stairs and moved towards the first of two fire doors that led to our room [No.3 Prospect]. I saw through the doors a woman dressed in white moving from left to right at the end of the corridor towards our room more or less, the view of her was from side on, so the profile of her face and movement was pretty obvious. Her torso filled the view from the left hand pane of glass in the far door, she was wearing a light white simple dress, like a summer dress as I could see her arms and neck, her hair was shoulder length and very pale blonde. She didn't look real to me. I couldn,t see below her waist as the door was in the way, so I saw no legs and feet just head and body and arm, she appeared to walk into our room. It was difficult to judge exact distance from my view of her but her disapearance was partial then full. I walked though the double doors expecting her to be in our room !! but the door was still locked so there was no where for her to go as such. I went into our room and checked ... it was empty and just as we had left it."

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