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	<passage mp3="AUDIO_REPOS/2238.mp3" title="Ghosts"><![CDATA[<div id="passage"><p>One of my favorite things to do when I was a little girl was to  stay with my grandad. So I'd go to stay with him on the holidays and he would  often tell  me stories or sing songs for me. So I learned a  lot from him but one of my favorite things like I said was to listen to his  stories and around Halloween sometimes or if we asked him at other times when  it was getting dark or a bit scary we'd ask him to tell us a ghost story. So  one of.. yeah, one of the first ghost stories I remember was him telling us  about a time when he was quite young, I think he was in his early twenties maybe  and he was already married but he went back to his parents house one night to  just.. to meet his family and friends, have a game of cards maybe with friends  who were gathered there. So it got pretty late because they had been playing  cards for a long time having some fun so he didn't want to leave and then  eventually, he and his friends decided,  &amp; quot;OK, we'd better leave and better  go back home &amp; quot; So the two of them were walking together towards their house  but in between his parents house and his new home they had to pass a graveyard. So these two guys, young men I suppose, they weren't very  happy with the idea of going past a graveyard very late at night because you  know.. they're lots of stories about ghosts and spirits hanging around at that  time of night. So they were approaching the graveyard and they were a bit  scared and they were wondering whether they should turn back or keep going. Be  strong and brave about it. So they were approaching the graveyard and suddenly  my granddad saw what he thought was a priest sitting on the wall. So he say a man  dressed in black with a white collar and he was so frightened. I mean, I can't  imagine what he must have said at the time but he and his friend were really,  really scared and they were talking between themselves,  &amp; quot;Oh, my God! What  should we do? What should we do? &amp; quot; but they were so frightened they couldn't move. So eventually, my grandad decided  &amp; quot;OK, I'm just going to run  for it. &amp; quot; So all of a sudden, he decided  and he just ran straight past the graveyard and then suddenly, this big dog  came jumping down from the wall of the graveyard and my grandad was so scared,  he was like screaming and everything but as it turned out it was just a sheep  dog that he'd seen so in the dark of night. In those days of no road lights and  street lights or anything what he'd actually seen with his friend was a black  sheep dog with a white collar, so not a ghost after all.</p></div>]]>
	
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