![]() They drove through the village of Roberttown, West Yorkshire. One New Year’s Eve in the 1980s, Brian and Margaret Foster were on their way to meet some friends at a local pub. The short, vanishing man The junction of Hartshead Lane and Peep Green Road (Image: Google Street View) Mr Foster said the light was so strong that it perfectly illuminated the figure, enabling the witnesses to pick out the cowl and the rope tied around the figure's waist.Īs the children and their youth group leader fled they saw the figure watching them leave. "I felt it looked just like what Jenny Randles calls a 'Pennine Sprite': a nature spirit indigenous to the Pennines." "On reflection, I think the glowing spiral might have been the ‘stuff’ that it was using to create a physical body for itself and I caught it just as it was materialising. Instantly, it disappeared and that was the end of the experience! When it did not move, I stepped off the path to try to get a better look. I stared at it for at least two-to-three minutes. "As I watched, it seemed to absorb the spiral into its body and it became dark, and I could not make out any features, but it seemed to be sitting with its knees drawn up with a bald head and pricked ears higher than its head. Everything else was a black silhouette against the purple sky but the thing seemed to be covered in a glowing ‘spiral’, which made it stand out. Something made me peer into the woods and there, on a fallen tree trunk bridging the stream, was a ‘thing’. "Suddenly, as I approached a bridge over a small stream flowing into the reservoir I entered a powerful energy-field, so noticeably that it instantly derailed my chain of thought. He recalls: "I was walking back to my car along a footpath, with the reservoir on my right and the woods on my left. Robin Ellis, from Sheffield, recalls an encounter with a sprite, a forest or water-dwelling fairy or spirit in the Ewden Valley, near Stocksbridge, in 2003. ![]() The Pennine Sprite Dancing Fairies by August Malmstrom ![]() To whet your appetite here is a selection of chilling tales from around Yorkshire which appear in Ghosts. ![]()
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