Once I remember visiting an aunt in Parr and playing hide-and-seek with two cousins, a sister and two other mates. We were upstairs playing and I was counting with my face to the wall in an empty upstairs bedroom while the others had run to hide.

As I turned around, I could see, as clear as day, a young boy aged about 10 dressed in a blue outfit which appeared to be an old-fashioned navy-type suit. He had long-ish light-brown hair, near to his neck and wavy-ish, and was just looking and smiling at me.

I asked him if he wanted to play but he smiled and seemed to just want to watch. Then he disappeared.

I will never forget this experience. It was not frightening at all to me at the time and I have never forgotten it. His pleasant face and appearance will always be clear in my mind.

I am not sure of the road, but it was either Park Road, or Parr Stocks Road, or something like that.

I wonder if anyone else has seen anything like that and what the history of that particular area may have been.

Carol Campbell, USA (via e-mail).