The Dead Of Stanley Brook: A True Ghost Story

By Edwin Brightwater

Do some of us see the dead?

A desolate farm. An ancient tragedy. Two unearthly apparitions. And a mystery beyond human understanding…

This is a true story. It really happened, and I was there.

In a remote corner of New Zealand in the 1980s, my family encountered two spectral figures. Over and over, these phantom children visited our secluded farm. We saw them, right before our eyes.

And then came the others…

Were they ghosts? Hallucinations? Lost souls unable to reach the other side?

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Publishdrive
• Release date: Jul 23, 2023

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This story is true. As far as I can tell, it really happened. And for some of it, I was even there, watching, listening, a real-life witness.

Whatever I may have seen, though, I can't really recall. I was young: just four or five years old, still not at school. It was Christmas. In the South Island of New Zealand in those days, Christmas felt like the hottest time of the year—a constant blaze of stark southern light. Most days, the sun shone; the clouds drifted high and wispy; breezes were gentle and warm. That day was a little different, though—and this was something we'd later think to be essential—for the sky was smudged, the summer sun flitted between