{"id":3177,"date":"2018-12-23T09:49:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T09:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/?page_id=3177"},"modified":"2018-12-26T06:33:12","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T06:33:12","slug":"ghosts-wiltshire-your-encounters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/ghosts-wiltshire-your-encounters\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghosts of Wiltshire &#8211; Your Encounters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>By Alex May<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When it comes to ghostly encounters, I&#8217;m an absolute sceptic. I sit on a fence of believing and liking a good ghost story, and keeping a scientific mind of &#8216;<em>there must be another provable explanation<\/em>&#8216;.<br>It doesn&#8217;t take away the fact that I experienced an encounter which I still can&#8217;t explain to this day. <br>My experience was at the George Inn at Norton St Philip, just on the border of Wiltshire. Sat with a group of friends, near a roaring fire during winter, the evening was cosy and fun. That was until the temperature dropped and I felt the firm palm of a hand rest on the crown of my head. I quickly turned to see who it was but no one was there. That is it. Something I can&#8217;t explain, but it still crosses my mind whether I was being blessed or cursed!<br>Ask many Wiltshire people who have visited old monuments, buildings, pubs, dark paths, or simply live in older houses and most will have a story of some kind that cannot be explained.<br><br><strong>And now, I&#8217;m opening this page up to you! Tell your story or encounter or that &#8216;eerie&#8217; thing that happened. Fill in the Comments box below.<br><em>All identities will be protected and all comments are moderated before being published.<\/em><\/strong><br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alex May When it comes to ghostly encounters, I&#8217;m an absolute sceptic. I sit on a fence of believing and liking a good ghost story, and keeping a scientific mind of &#8216;there must be another provable explanation&#8216;.It doesn&#8217;t take<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/ghosts-wiltshire-your-encounters\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3177"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3267,"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3177\/revisions\/3267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alexandramay.co.uk\/author\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}