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Hi UK Paranormal,
Sometime back I booked into The Ringwood Hall Hotel, at Chesterfield. As I walked into my room (I can't remember the number), it had a feeling "like someone had just walked out". Sounds weird but that is the best way I can describe it. The feeling was so strong that I spent the first five or ten minutes looking around the room, lord alone knows what for!!
Anyway off to bed. I eventually put the light out and I lay there in what seemed to be the blackest room I have ever been in. I was just thinking about this, when a red "orb" appeared six foot or so above me to the left on the ceiling. I stared at it and blinked and it was still there, so I sat up to look at it and it was still there. I stared around the room to see if there was a light source, a TV standby light or something. I couldn't see anything, so I put the light on and walked around the room and investigated. I found nothing and eventually went to bed with the light on!!!
Anyway, about two-thirty in the morning I awoke, face down, with someone sitting on my back and they seemed to be "tickling" my sides and back. I was startled and still waking up but was sure I was in a hotel room alone. As I was awakening I shouted "Get off!!" (or an expletive variant), while twisting around and trying to "elbow off" who ever was on my back. As I twisted round I looked over my back and saw nothing there!!! I was still twisting and turning to throw off whomever it was....and was getting annoyed that they were still there on my back and not taking the hint!!! I shouted some more, eventually turned over and it stopped.I immediately got up, looked around the room and tried to make sense of it. I then wrote a short account for me to read should I fall asleep again and think it was a dream in the morning. I went back to bed sitting bolt upright and spent the night drifting in and out of consciousness. In the morning I got up and went straight over to the account, read it and thought "S*** it happened!!"
Now of the "encounter" itself. I do not think it was threatening, it was kind of the feeling you would get if a lover or child mischievously thinks it would be amusing to wake you up by tickling you. My reaction was just a surprised response.
I was once upon a time, a total sceptic, but a few experiences have made me think there may be something else going on. It could be spiritual in nature, it could be a chemical reaction in the old hyperactive noggin or something else...maybe madness. But it was certainly a strange experience. I am convinced it was not a dream or nightmare, others will think otherwise of course. I would love to be able to repeat that experience with witnesses and sensory recording equipment, just to satisfy my curiosity. Be interesting to know what others think.

Submitted by: Gaz.