Man who was tormented by ghost during college received chilling letter from ex-classmate years later

The star of True Haunting has revealed he received a letter from a former classmate, which added a creepy twist to his paranormal tale.

For those unfamiliar with the spooky Netflix TV show, it blends immersive reenactments and present-day interviews to detail paranormal encounters from the viewpoint of those who lived them.

The petrifying docuseries, which dropped last month just in time for Halloween and has left people only able to watch it in the daylight, delves into two tales across its five episodes: 'Eerie Hall' and 'This House Murdered Me'.

Chris DiCesare, 60, features in the early part of the documentary where he talks about his haunting at Erie Hall in SUNY Geneseo during the 1980s.

He described his terrifying experience of being haunted by a spirit called 'Tommy' while he was a student.

Chris DiCesare told his terrifying paranormal story in Netflix's True Haunting (SWNS)

While the alleged ghost was later 'identified' as a tortured Revolutionary War soldier that had links to DiCesare, the doc left unanswered questions about how the spirit came to haunt him.

However, just last week, DiCesare was contacted by a former classmate who said the notorious spirit was reportedly transferred from him when they ran together during a 1984 campus race.

The classmate says he was regularly haunted by Tommy - until he ran alongside DiCesare at college.

The fellow runner, who does not want to be named, told DiCesare he felt Tommy leave him as they ran close to each other.

DiCesare, a special education and history teacher in New Windsor, New York, said: "I received an email message request just last night, and the gentleman said, 'I need to speak to you'.

"He said, 'I feel bad about this, but that thing left me when it found you'. He said, 'I knew in the moment that you were next to me, it went to you'. And then, within a few weeks, the haunting began."

The former classmate recognised DiCesare from True Haunting as someone he’d run alongside in the fall of 1984 - just before the spine-chilling events began.

He believed the ghost of Lt. Thomas Boyd, a Revolutionary War soldier, had passed from him to DiCesare during that run.

The letter in question was handwritten (SWNS)

DiCesare, who often passed the 'torture tree' with his classmate, found out that one of his mum's ancestors discovered Boyd’s mutilated body during the war - a family link that may explain why Boyd’s spirit was drawn to him.

The 60-year-old added: "He and his roommate experienced the temperature in the room decrease so they saw their breath, even though the heat was on and the windows were closed."

The ex-classmate reportedly stopped experiencing the paranormal activity after the spirit transferred to over to DiCesare.

He first noticed faint voices in room C2D1 in the autumn of 1984, but the haunting intensified after meeting paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren in early 1985, following a lecture where he shook their hands.

DiCesare said: "I put my hand up to shake her hand and say hello.

"And Lorraine would not shake my hand. She said, 'No, thank you. I don't want to know my future'.

"Ed looked at me and then he put his hands on my shoulders and he walked me off the stage."

Not long after, DiCesare started hearing a whispering voice 'a foot or two away' in his dorm room, saying his name, which soon developed into full-blown apparitions and attacks, tormenting both himself and his roommate.

Four decades after the paranormal experience, DiCesare now works as a social studies teacher - a role he's held for the past 26 years.

However, he can't help but worry that the ghost will come back one day.

Speaking to Tyla, DiCesare said: "I wonder to myself, each and every day, if today will be the day that ‘that thing’ comes back.

"It has been 40 years since the events at Erie Hall took place, and logic suggests that it is now all over, but my mind cannot help but go back to the thought that it happened once, so it can happen again."