Diane Wyles [Author] – a Ghost Story – “An American Airmen in Oxford”! (28.8.2025)

My mother – Diane Wyles – wrote a short ghost-story regarding an episode of my youth in Oxfordshire during the late 1960s. I remember seeing a man u (appearing on Page 56 of the above book) niform enter my romm and sit on my bed – saying nothing. He may have looked at me once or twice – but was mostly stood and sat to attention. I left the bedroom and entered the nearby bedroom of my parents and told them what I saw (I was around 2-years old in 1969). My father ran into the room and found no one there. From what I remember – it was not dark – so I suppose it must have been a Summer’s evening. The room was clean, tidy, and painted in a bright colour – probably off-white, or something like that. It is a curious event as I have never seen anything similar in my life. Whatever the case, the Editor – HE Bulstrode (a friend of mother) – gathered all these stories together and I think the original author’s should have been credited. Still, this is just what I am doing in this post. Did I imagine an event that other people I do not know (or have ever met) experienced exactly the same delusion? How could this happen? Why would this happen? Interesting.