The Clamberer
I was going on a coach trip with mother, nan and grandad. The coach pulled up and we got on. One man and grandad were too slow getting on and it went off without them. I asked them to go back for them and they did.
I was staying in a hotel with Goodwin. It was early morning and we were both still asleep, and I kept hearing banging. I woke up and saw someone behind the curtain. I thought it was Goodwin, so I went and looked and it was a young boy in just swimming trunks. I asked him what he was doing there, but my voice was really hoarse. He didn’t say much, and just left. Goodwin later explained he was a ‘clamberer’. There was a party upstairs and when the hotel owners found out people would climb down the balcony and into windows.
Goodwin had left the window open for him.
I went back to bed for a bit, but then I heard another noise. I got up and opened the curtain and saw a guy a few years younger than me in swimming trunks standing on the windowsill, which was very wide. I shouted “Ha!” He was shocked and he slipped and fell. I thought I’d killed him and saw people going over to check on him. I told Goodwin and was panicking. I went back to the window and saw he was just lying there twitching. After a while he coughed up some water and woke up. He got up and looked very angry, so I ducked down and hid. I saw him storm off, coming for me. I was terrified but wanted to explain to him, so I went out to try and find him before he found me. I was still scared so I reminded myself it was a dream and woke myself up.
Later, I was in Essex with a few people. A guy was running and climbing across rooftops. I joked it was a low budget Batman and they’d CGI the suit in later. It turned out it was a window cleaner. He came over and we had a chat, and he agreed to do a Reddit AMA