i have one story which freaked me out massively when i heard it.
my dad was brought up in Birmingham and he told us a story of a group of kids that he used to play with after school back in the early 60's.
one of them wasn't well off at home dad used to be a drunk and beat his wife up, he was a troubled child.
anyways this childs father came back from the pub pissed out his face and started knocking his wife around and killed her, he was so emotionally broken after doing it left a note on the kitchen table called the police and apparently just ran head first out of the bedroom window breaking his neck on the pavement outside.
also died.
This kid who was 11 at the time just disappeared never to be seen again.
30 odd years down the line my dad is in a pub with his brother in Cannock, where my auntie lives currently
guess who taps him on the shoulder...
My dad had no idea who he was at first but apparently he said it was like speaking to a ghost, just couldn't believe it.
really sad story the guy lived in poverty until he was taken into a children's home off the streets.
The guys still a live, married with 4 kids