No, no: I've had no spectral visitors offering Bondian double entendres. But I just noticed this story, apparently told by Moore a long time ago, about a ghost he had visit him twice when staying at a hotel early in his career.
The story is interesting (if not a tall tale) for a couple of reasons. First, it initially sounds like it might be a case of sleep paralysis, which often does involve the perception of a phantom figure in the room, sometimes near or on the bed, causing the paralysis. But then he says he was sitting "bolt upright" in bed - and I don't think that's consistent with your normal "woke up and couldn't move" case of sleep paralysis.
Secondly, it is surely pretty rare to see the same apparition twice.
So, I wonder if it was true...
(And, by the way, isn't that a terribly designed website the story is on.)
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