Under pressure - an out of body/ surreal experience?
'I won't be sleeping in there again'. These were my words after a frightening experience in the North Dome upper room of Bidston Observatory. I'd never liked that room, an unwelcoming source of energy emitted from it persistently. It was cold in the summer, colder still in the winter, and no amount of cosying-up with decorating and furnishings made it feel any less hostile.
It was so bad that even though I had made it a bedroom, I ended up sleeping downstairs as from the spiral staircase up to the room and across to the inner door out to the landing that took you round to the steps to the roof and dome room there was a cloud of seeming doom that covered this area. It felt to me like a person had some bad experience there and this feeling was still reverberating around this part of the Observatory. All other rooms were splendid and you could role play as a Victorian aristocrat in it's massive rooms.
My last night (of approximately 6 nights) in the upper north dome was terrifying. I remember feeling as though I was being pushed into the bed, deeper and deeper; I couldn't breathe. I remember trying to lift myself up but had no purchase or power to do so. To this day I still see a 'face', fleetingly in my thoughts, but I can see it nonetheless. There was zero leverage as I felt as though I was lower at my head by 22 degrees than my feet, the whole bed felt lifted at one end. I eventually managed to catch my breath and lift myself up. I sat bolt upright in the bed, the room was cold and there was a stillness. I knew there and then I needed to get out of the room.
It interested me if only for the fact that other phantoms of Bidston have been known to be very alarming, the ghost of Bidston Hall comes to mind. It's mentioned elsewhere on this website that a small child's voice has also been heard downstairs, but of course this was not 'hostile'.
If not for the 'positive' parts of the building having a hold on me then I don't think I would have stayed there as long as I did. In fact, I never wanted to leave.