Another one of the castle’s most talked about spirits is that of the Blue Boy who is thought to haunt the Pink Room and witnesses have claimed to see blue halos of light inside.

Still, the pretty façade hides a sinister secret – the castle is haunted and is reported as being one of the most haunted places in Devon.This underground city is supposedly overrun with ghouls: plague victims, phantom pipers, prisoners of war and even a headless drummer.

Sometime past midnight, Harold was roused from a restless slumber by a cold wind sweeping across his face. Pendle Hill is said to be the home to the restless spirits of the witches, who are buried there overlooking the village of Newchurch. The building is home to all sorts of spooks – two demons, a witch, orbs and other ghostly presences, and many people who have visited the property have described it as the ‘scariest place’ they’ve ever visited.Indeed, seeing a ghost is as rare as the two sides in the coalition government being actually agreeing on something! Not to worry though as in a few weeks time I'll be speaking at Ghost West South West and the heartbreak over not being able to get inside in 2010 will be replaced by the sheer joy of having done so in 2011!

Legend has it that’s because the building was once used as a court of law, and hundreds of defendants were put to death in the inn itself. As you turn each page, you'll grapple with a disconcerting thought: Where does reality end, and where does the imagined begin? Popping in to the front pitch I was able to read a little of it's history and discovered that it was founded in 1915, as a direct result of the official report into the Titanic Disaster. The inn was built in 1145 on top of two ancient Ley Lines believed to draw spiritual energy directly from Stonehenge.

Robins has had “hundreds and hundreds” of people contacting him with their stories recently, although this is more likely to be as a result of the success of his podcasts than an overall increase in experiences. I had come to Warleggan to visit the church of St Bartholomew, a tiny little church which in the mid 20th century became famous on account of its eccentric vicar F. In Llanfihangel Crucorney, The Skirrid Mountain Inn, one of the oldest public houses in Wales, is reputed to be home to several ghosts. Between 12 and 16, ghosts have been reported in the village, including a screaming man, a highwayman who appears at Fright Corner, a schoolmaster found hanged by a group of children and an old woman who used to sit on a bridge smoking. Whether you do or not, you’ll be shocked at just how many mystical spots there are in the United Kingdom.

The first indication that something paranormal was happening at the house was footsteps heard in the dead of night in the 1860s. Tradition maintains that these stones are a group of long ago wedding guests who were turned to stone for dancing through the night when the devil turned up to play them a merry jig. Hauntings, he thinks, “often come from a growing feeling of uneasiness in your surroundings” and clearly the pandemic has caused this for many. The story goes that Dorothy would have to meet her beloved in secret due to their differing religions.On sighting something unusual in the sky, “the main worry was that it was Soviets testing secret military technology. Once voted as the most haunted house in Britain, the grand Blickling Hall that you’ll see today stands on the ruins of a medieval manor house, once home to the Boleyn family.