Dick Turpin
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I’d been meaning to post this on here after recently reading a post, (which I now annoyingly can’t find) about the feeling of human hands on one fortean member, whilst they were swimming in an empty local pool.
I had a near identical experience to this whilst I was holidaying in Corfu in 1995.
One evening whilst most of the Hotels guests were either napping or getting ready to go out for the evening, I noticed that the pool / sun lounge area was almost deserted, feeling a little tired but under pressure to go out that night, I decided to take an arduous swim in the hope it would liven me up a bit.
The pool wasn’t huge but large enough to get some decent lengths of swimming in, and I was halfway through my 3rd or forth length, when I felt a pair of human hands grab my ankle, and tug downwards, then let go. Thinking one of my mates had gotten into the pool without me noticing and playing a prank on me, I spun round expecting to see them, but nope, the pool was completely empty bar me.
A few days later quite early in the morning, I was lying on a sun lounger reading an English newspaper. The pool was empty apart from a young girl taking an early morning dip, when suddenly she let out a scream, I looked up from my paper to see her scrambling to get out of the water, before shouting to her boyfriend (who was sitting at a nearby table ) that someone had tried to drag her under the water.
I listened with interest in what she next said to her BF, in that she felt a pair of hands grab her ankle and pull her down, she was a little upset by the experience and said that she would not be going back into that pool for the duration of the holiday.
I had a near identical experience to this whilst I was holidaying in Corfu in 1995.
One evening whilst most of the Hotels guests were either napping or getting ready to go out for the evening, I noticed that the pool / sun lounge area was almost deserted, feeling a little tired but under pressure to go out that night, I decided to take an arduous swim in the hope it would liven me up a bit.
The pool wasn’t huge but large enough to get some decent lengths of swimming in, and I was halfway through my 3rd or forth length, when I felt a pair of human hands grab my ankle, and tug downwards, then let go. Thinking one of my mates had gotten into the pool without me noticing and playing a prank on me, I spun round expecting to see them, but nope, the pool was completely empty bar me.
A few days later quite early in the morning, I was lying on a sun lounger reading an English newspaper. The pool was empty apart from a young girl taking an early morning dip, when suddenly she let out a scream, I looked up from my paper to see her scrambling to get out of the water, before shouting to her boyfriend (who was sitting at a nearby table ) that someone had tried to drag her under the water.
I listened with interest in what she next said to her BF, in that she felt a pair of hands grab her ankle and pull her down, she was a little upset by the experience and said that she would not be going back into that pool for the duration of the holiday.