Ok. So here goes.
It started a few years ago. I’d been living in heyrod (stalybridge, England). And maybe between a quarter and a half mile from my house. Lies a little cottage. This little cottage always caught my attention. And I was never sure why
The above is said cottage. Tollbar cottage is the name.
Anyways. The first time these events started I was quite stressed with life on the whole. Around 30 yards from the cottage with a grazing field behind it there is a streetlight. As I walked by it. It turned on or off. Didn’t really think much of it. That was until it became so frequent it was everytime I walked or drove by it. And each time it did this I had a wave of uncontrollable sadness. To the point I would have tears Rolling down my cheeks. EVERY SINGLE TIME. Once I was past it it would be gone in an instant.
I told my then girlfriend what was going on and as you can imagine she laughed. Told me it was in my head. So I took her in the car and said watch it will happen. It did just as I said it would.
Anyways. After around a year of this happening. There was one evening in particular. Where I walked past and same again. Light went out. I ended up shouting at the streetlight. Saying fuck you. It’s fucking bull shit. And many other expletives coming out of my mouth. The light appeared to get mad back and started flickering violently. Which kind of made me think there was maybe more to what was going on than I wanted to admit.
So after a while I stopped getting mad/frustrated and decided to ask questions. Feeling like someone or something was trying to tell me something.
I uttered the question “when I’m facing the right direction. Show me where I need to be looking”
Ended up facing a small patch on the grazing pasture when the light pinged on. Continued turning and light went off. Turned back to that spot. And the light came on again.
This was mid winter so there was no new growth really. Except from said patch. Which was maybe 6ft x 2ft of really healthy looking tall grass.
The wave of sadness felt this time was something else. I actually broke down crying. (I’m a 6ft manly man usually happy to take the piss out of anything)
I’m with a new girlfriend now. And ended up telling her about this. And decided to show her on Google maps the location and the streetlight. And boom. The light is on in broad daylight
Weird right. Even weirder she said she could feel the energy too. We tried doing some more digging on the history of the place and can’t really find any information at all. (Although we did find a lot of information of strange goings on further down the road at a place called cocker hill, which has a rich history of being frequented by degenerates. Body snatchers and an old church that managed to collapse several times. You can actually still see babies headstones in the river from landslides to this day
I’ve never got to the bottom of this feeling and we have since moved to another country. But after taking her there whilst we were in a flat (apartment) in Stockport. Not too far away maybe 8 miles. The light across the street would also light up and go off even just looking at it through the window. Like whatever it was had followed us from that visit to show her.
The above is a link to some of the history of cocker hill. I maybe shooting in the dark but I feel someone met a dark end at cocker hill and was subsequently buried where the tall grass is. I wish I could go and dig up the land to see what I can find.