During our first night in Phuket in 2006, I believe I saw a ghost in our room at the beach resort on the far south of the island. I woke up in the early hours of the morning and can still vividly remember seeing the apparition of a small oriental girl with short black hair and a big smile who was trying to open a cupboard door in the room (either the fridge or the safe). I felt absolutely terrified and was unable to move in bed, unsure whether it was a ghost or a burglar……..!

The following morning, we read about the hundreds of people who lost their lives during the Tsunami on the beach directly opposite, in the resort and the local area. I’m a very level headed person but the experience I had the night before just felt so real. To this day I have never forgotten it despite wondering whether my mind was playing tricks with me whilst I was half asleep but I didn’t know about the damage to our resort and the huge loss of life until the next day.

I remain open minded about the afterlife.