that recent mysterious happenings in the reality house have been caused by the ghost of Jade Goody, says a report.

Medium Sara Etienne told Channel 4 bosses that she believes that the spirit of the BB3 star has returned to the set of the reality show.

The 50-year-old has offered her services to help to exorcise Jade’s ghost, says the Daily Star.

Sara told the newspaper that she believes that Jade’s spirit has returned to “help” the housemates on the last ever series.

Etienne is reported as saying: “I think Jade is there not to cause trouble but to help people.

“It’s very nurturing, almost motherly. I think Jade realises fame is not all it’s cracked up to be and wants to warn others.

“That’s why things are going wrong.

“It’s a message. I feel she’s saying these people can do something with their lives without having to be on TV.”

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on her menu board as she had done every day since Feb. 19 when a man behind her whispered, “What are you doing?”

Pierce turned around. No one was there.

She dropped the marker and ran into the back kitchen.

It wasn’t the first instance in her restaurant that she can’t quite explain, so she called in the professionals at Ghost Hunters Inc., a group of Pennsylvania residents who investigate paranormal activity.

A team of eight Ghost Hunters investigators will spend Saturday night attempting to contact the spirits Pierce believes are present throughout her restaurant.

Pierce bought the Riverfront Bar and Lounge at 338 S. Front St. in Wrightsville in
November 2008. She gutted the top two floors and remodeled the first floor where the bar is. Since then, she’s noticed strange things happening.

“Right before we opened, I came in to make sure the fridges were conditioned,” she said. “I walked into the kitchen and heard loud, organ music coming from the bar. I looked out in the bar and it stopped.”

She has also heard bathroom stall doors whipping open

and shut, but stop when she walks into the bathroom. And then there’s the walking and mumbling the barmaids have told her about — sometimes when the bar’s empty.

“I do believe,” Pierce said. “I don’t know if I’d call them ghosts, but I believe there’s something out there.”

Abel brothers: Pierce, a real estate agent for 17 years, was curious about the building’s history. She collected anything she could find to give her a glimpse into the past. Neighbors from the block had given her pictures of the building, one of which she hung out in the bar area.

The picture is from sometime between 1890 and 1920, Pierce guessed. It’s of some men standing in front of the bar, then called Abel Brothers Storefront.

Pierce pulled paperwork from York County and discovered the Abel brothers — Samuel, Milton and Albert — owned the building and sold beer, ice cream and milk. In 1937, they petitioned to sell beer, sandwiches and light lunches.

The picture of the brothers, secured by a picture hanger, constantly falls,

Pierce said. But it doesn’t fall to the floor and break. It falls straight down, onto a ledge.

Allen Phillips, the founder and lead investigator of Ghost Hunters Inc., examined the picture and the hook. He said it’s impossible for the picture to fall the way it does without breaking.

“Someone has to physically pick it up and place it on the ledge,” he said. “We’re thinking (it’s the Abel Brothers).”

Hunting: Phillips started the ghost hunting service in 1974 with his brother and best friend. To this day, it’s still just a hobby. The investigators all have full-time jobs and don’t charge a fee to their clients.

“We want to get evidence that there is life beyond the grave

 and to debunk any other kinds of sounds,” Phillips said. “We do scientific research in a paranormal world.”

The group did a preliminary investigation Wednesday night and said they found heavy activity throughout the building. Investigator Scott Wise said he could immediately feel a presence as he walked up to the second floor.

“I just felt, like a heaviness, then it lifted up,” he said. “It’s all over.”

Saturday, the group will split up into teams of two on each floor. They will use tools to attempt to contact the spirits during the four-hour investigation. An electronic voice phenomenon tool will record a spirit’s response to the investigators’ questions. The recorder can replay any noise.

The electromagnetic field detector will indicate if there is a spirit in the room. On a scale of 0.1 to 50, 50 indicating the most activity, the investigators said the Riverfront Bar and Lounge exceeded the scale during their preliminary investigation Wednesday.

“I kept it to myself until the barmaids said they were hearing things,” Pierce said. “I just want to know I’m not hearing things.”

Pierce will be part of the investigation Saturday. She said she doesn’t want skeptics to write her off as crazy and encourages people to experience what she has.

“They have to come see for themselves I guess,” Pierce said. “Just come here and hang out.”

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Staff at one of Edinburgh’s spookiest tourist attractions have been left mystified after a ghostly figure showed up in the photographs of two separate tourists.

Bosses at Mary King’s Close say the blond haired woman who appeared in images from two different tours was definitely not a customer.

Both photos appear to show one person more than expected and staff believe that on close inspection, the ghostly figure appears to be the same woman.

Staff were first alerted to their unexpected visitor last October, when a member of the public queried their souvenir photograph. A few weeks later, the same thing happened with a different tourist, and staff say they have been trying to figure out what is going on ever since.

They have now introduced later night tours for the month of August in a bid to get to the bottom of the mystery. And they have asked anyone who sees a strange apparition in their pictures to allow them to be examined.

Lisa Robshaw, spokesperson for The Real Mary King’s Close, said: “We hope that by extending the hours of opening we can get to the bottom of this mystery. 

“We’ve long been associated with supernatural and unexplained stories.

We’ve had sightings of dark shadowy figures who lurk in the myriad of passageways, rooms and corners of the Closes, and reports of lots of strange noises – these images seem to give us even more evidence.

“By running tours late in to the night with the last one finishing at midnight, we hope that this might make the ghostly image reappear. “

Ms Robshaw insisted the images had not been doctored by staff, adding: “We have spent a long time studying these photographs and cannot come to a satisfactory conclusion.  In both these images there appears to be a blurry ghostly image of a blond haired lady which we cannot explain, and we hope that by making the images public that someone might be able to help.

“If there are people in the images who can explain who the lady is we would love to hear from them.  We’ve tested the static camera that we use and it appears to be working normally so we really do not have an explanation.  We just want to try and understand what has happened.”

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 standing behind her dancing daughter this week.

Dezarae Smith’s 6-year-old daughter, Ivy, and husband, Corey, were on the front porch of their home on Wednesday when a young boy took a picture of the two with his cell phone.

“They were going fishing, and my daughter asked this little boy to take a picture of her while she was dancing,” Smith said. “There were only three people on the porch at the time. I was at work when the picture was taken, but when I saw it, my mouth just dropped. I don’t believe in ghosts, but it made a believer out of me.”

A form stands behind the little girl in the picture, and Smith said you can see the outline of a woman’s face, nose and eyes, as well as a hand.

“I know it’s not Ivy’s shadow,” Smith said. “It’s almost like the figure is facing the person who took the picture and waving ‘Hi.’ Kind of like making itself known. You don’t see that in a shadow.”

Smith’s mother-in-law passed away on July 13, 2007

 — three years and one day before the picture was taken. On Tuesday, other relatives had been pressuring the 6-year-old to move forward from memories of her beloved grandmother — a suggestion that upset her.

The young girl and older woman had a very close connection, Smith said, and the two loved to dance together.

“It makes me more sure that it’s Ivy’s grandmother standing behind her, because she asked the boy to take a picture of her dancing,” Smith said. “When she died from a massive heart attack it really affected everyone pretty bad. It was very unexpected and no one knew she was sick or even had heart problems. For the first two years of her life, Ivy would live with her grandmother off and on. They had a very special bond. Even now, Ivy will sit in her room talking to herself and no one knows who she is talking to.”

Neighbors and co-workers agree the form is a ghost, Smith said, but husband Corey was slightly skeptical.

“When I show it to people, they get chills on their necks and arms,”

 Smith said. “My husband wasn’t sure it was a ghost, but when I pointed out the details, he came to agree it was a ghost.”

If anything, Smith said this experience is helping her family gain peace.

“We think that Ivy’s grandma is still there and protecting her and telling her that everything is going to be fine,” Smith said. “It’s just confirmation that her grandma is watching over her.”

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in Britain and she could still be haunting a churchyard in Penn.

Or so a paranormal researcher believes.

Author and photographer Eddie Brazil, 54, has been researching for his book about haunted churches around England.

His work has led to him to the idea that the ghost of Ruth Ellis – who was executed in 1955 – may be returning to the site where she murdered her lover David Blakely.

The first tale of ghostly apparitions comes from a Penn farm worker who was killed when he fell from his horse in the 18th century.

His ghost was said to appear up in the churchyard.

In 1980s the figure of a woman in white

 was seen to leave the churchyard by the east gate and walk down the hill which runs by the side of the churchyard.

Hazlemere resident Eddie explained: “Nobody knows the identity of the apparition but the Crown Public House across the road – they have a woman in white.

“We found out that David Blakely, who was murdered by Ruth Ellis, is buried in Penn churchyard, – and they used to drink in the crown pub.

“She told Blakely’s parents that she loved him and ghost identification is a weird business.

“We thought could it be the ghost of Ruth Ellis still pining for Blakely?”

Eddie said he is a believer in ghosts

and thinks eventually science may prove their existence.

“It’s my opinion that ghosts do exist. There’s a theory gaining ground on the scientific table in the last few years called non-locality theory which suggests mind and brain are separate, that the mind acts through the brain, but when you have bodily death the mind or consciousness can carry on in some from.

“The analogy would be like a television or radio signal which requires the nuts and bolts of the television to convert the sounds and pictures.

“If you were to destroy the TV or radio i.e have bodily death you wouldn’t destroy the signal or consciousness.”

Eddie, who had his first paranormal experience at age of 10 in London, wants to hear from Buckinghamshire residents about their own sightings and stories – not just about churches – but all paranormal activity.

E-mail him at eddiebrazil@rocketmail.com.

Eddie’s book, including the tale of Ruth Ellis, will be published next year.

Eddie co-wrote recently published The Borley Rectory Companion, the complete guide to the most haunted house in England, with colleague Paul Adams and veteran British ghosthunter, Peter Underwood.

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 Douglas Myers is sure of one thing: Don’t believe it until you see it.

It’s what propels him in his hobby as a lover of history and a researcher of the paranormal — otherwise known as ghost hunting — outside of his day job as the sole civilian employee of the Wooster Fire Department.

“Like the elephant’s child, I’m just full of insatiable curiosity,” Myers said of his love of history. “I grew up with a family that never threw away anything, so we were surrounded by family antiques and collectibles, so it’s just part of my nature.”

A Wooster history buff, Myers has a fascination for the unusual, like his research of Ralph Henderson, the first Wooster police officer killed in the line of duty. Harry Glick, who while in prison for the crime, went on to build Ohio’s first electric chair.

“When it comes to local history I have a fascination for the unusual,

 the everyday man versus the noble pioneer and Founding Father, because there’s lots more everyday men and women in our 200-plus-year history than noble pioneers,” Myers said.

He said he researches the everyday man in hopes of “giving him credit for his sacrifice, that’s a real satisfaction in bringing these people to light, and their stories.”

Wayne County Probate Court Judge Ray Leisy said Myers’ attention to detail and love of research makes him a great historian.

“When you discuss history you sometimes fall into the habit of repeating not rumors, but popular history about what people say actually took place, but when you start checking the detail at that time, it’s been embellished,” he said. “Doug never falls into the trap. He spends a lot of time going back and checking his sources.”

When writing “Broken Banks of the Wayne County Frontier,” Leisy passed it on to Myers for a quick review to make sure nothing was amiss.

“I’m glad to say I had it right, I try to do the research he does,” Leisy said.

In addition to local history, Myers is a Civil War history fan. On one notable trip, he and his son, Daniel, went to Gettysburg, Pa., to view battlefields, but also to try and see what they could find at night.

“I kept a very open mind, I didn’t particularly believe in ghosts.

 I kept a skeptical mind. You needed to show me for me to believe it,” he said.

But walking the field one night with his son, he said they heard a replay of part of the battle, cannons and all.

“In the middle of the field, in the middle of the night, as clear to our ears as it could be — Fire! and boom-boom, boom-boom — and dead silence,” Myers said.

It was one of the more “awkward, bizarre and surreal moments of my life,” Daniel Myers said, but helped to give him “new perspective on things.”

“He is a good person, a wonderful father, as a friend he’s there when you need him,” he said of his father. “He’ll help anyone out.”

So that sparked his interest, and now Myers researches sites of hauntings,

 even local spots, to see what he can find. He said photographing “death curve,” the 90-degree curve near Wooster Memorial Park, produced three orbs in his photo — signs of possible spirits.

Coincidentally, he said, he came across information about a crash there and three out of four family members died at that site.

Some day, Myers said, he’d love to set up a ghost tour in Wooster. “There’s enough stories to really fill an evening of haunted Wooster as there is in Gettsyburg.”

A lover of theater, Myers has performed in local plays and dinner theaters, including a performance of “The Philadelphia Story,” where he met his wife, Shelly.

“She played the upstairs maid and I just couldn’t resist a woman in uniform,” Myers said.

Both had auditioned for the play at the insistence of two friends.

“It was just one of those things,” she said. “We met and just kind of clicked I guess you could say.”

Myers said his wife of more than 13 years is “very supportive of all my interests … tolerates my collection, is extremely, mercifully tolerant of my collections and my outings.”

“He’s just eclectic,” Shelly Myers said with a laugh. “He likes whatever he can find.”

That would include collections like “Death Dirt” — soil samples he collected from historical sites, like the ambush site of Bonnie and Clyde, the area of East Liverpool where Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd was killed, or the site of the wreck of the USS Shenandoah.

“I always wanted to see that site,” he said of where Bonnie and Clyde died.

“And what a thrill, it really was. I got there and I am there all by myself, and this abused memorial people had chipped souvenirs off of. I go, I have to bring a souvenir home with me. I thought, oh, how about some dirt?”

Sometimes those collections will be turned into gifts. Like the sample of sand in a Smucker’s jar from Ponte Verda Beach, Fla., where a German sub came to shore given to his daughter, Lauren Chitty.

“He’s all over the place. He likes being funny … He’s quirky, I’m just lucky he’s the way he is,” Chitty said.

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The area is such a hot spot that Jumpin Gene Simmons (not KISS Front man) the co-writer of Tim McGraw’s hit song, “Indian Outlaw” wrote a song in 1964 entitled, “Haunted House.”

A little known fact that also lends itself to the possibility of paranormal activity is that Tupelo was used as a hiding spot for members of the Mafia. According to Dexter Babin, a life long student of the Mafia, “Although the group, “Dixie Mafia” wasn’t a member of the Kosa Nostra. It was actually an association of criminals with different backgrounds.”

Even just being criminals, the possibility that murders were not in the group is small. Murders tragically end lives shortly and lead to the possibility that some paranormal researchers believe lead to ghostly phenomenon.

One of the paranormal hot spots is “The Lyric Theater,” a historic landmark that is still being used to this day. The story of particular interest, at least to enthusiasts of the paranormal is the tornado in the 30s that leveled the town. According to Tom Booth, Executive Director of the Community theater “The information about the use of the Lyric during the tornado that occured on April 5, 1936 is true.”

Many sites have reported that the dead and dying of Tupelo were brought to the Lyric. Surgeries were performed by using the popcorn poppers to sterilize the instruments.

Local legends say that the theater is still haunted to this day. Probably the best time to visit the theater, if you want this kind of experience would be during the annual “Haunted Theater” event in October

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The presenter made the announcement in a statement posted on the website for the show’s production company Antix Productions, which she set up with her husband Karl Beattie.

“It has been a great ten years. However, after a lot of thought and soul-searching over the past year, I have come to a decision. It is now time for me to hang up my long black coat, move on and leave Most Haunted as its presenter in order to pursue other projects.”

Fielding said that she is proud of what her “baby” had achieved including being “watched by royalty” and parodied by shows like Saturday Night Live.

“At the start I wanted to bring paranormal investigations to a wider audience, making them more acceptable and with the ever growing amount of investigation groups that have started since Most Haunted began, I feel that this has been achieved.”

The 41-year-old confirmed that she intends to continue working in the field.

“As well as continuing with ITV2’s Ghosthunting with… – which grows from strength to strength and with some great celebrity guests coming up, it is must-watch TV – I will be carrying on my quest to find paranormal activity on other channels taking investigations further than ever before and extending on what I have already done.”

Living has yet to confirm if the show will continue with a new presenter but Fielding expressed her hope that it would.

“I hope that the brand will continue for years to come as it will always be dear to me.”

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According to Chip Coffey, the Banff Springs Hotel is a lively place for the dead.

While Fairmont may not be putting this in its brochures, it seems those long held theories that the 123-year-old historical building is a hotbed for ghostly activities are true.

Coffey, the bespectacled medium and psychic from A&E shows Paranormal State and Psychic Kids, was in the hotel for only 15 minutes Sunday afternoon when he claims to have sensed no less than three ghosts milling about amid the chattering mob of movers, shakers and wannabes attending the Banff World Television Festival.

One was a woman, perhaps the famous bride who died on her wedding day and is said to haunt one of the hotel’s many stairwells. Her name, Coffey has determined, was Christina and she was pregnant when she died.

“Not one life but two were lost at that time,”

said Coffey, in an interview with the Herald in the lobby of the Fairmont Banff Hotel. “With me being here, she felt very comfortable is saying, ‘It’s not a stigma anymore, so I will let you know I was pregnant. And the only two people who knew at the time was my mother and my husband-to-be.’

He also saw a man who he believes may have been Sam McAuley, the devoted bellman whose ghostly figure is said to haunt the hotel on a regular basis since his death in the 1970s.

The third was a little boy named Jack. He just wanted to hang.

“He’s been around and pretty active and hanging in my room,” says Coffey on Monday afternoon. “I do a show called Psychic Kids and I work with a lot of children. Children in particular feel comfortable, in spirit, to be chatting with me. The boy identified himself as Jack — he’s blond, he’s about six to nine years old. He showed up in my room first and came through last night on the ghost walk.”

Coffey, who was at the Banff World Television Festival for a panel discussion about paranormal TV shows, was enlisted to lead a private ghost walk around the premises alongside some VIPs. That’s when he met Christina again, and Sam. The hotel’s famous “hidden room” on the eighth floor is apparently haunted by ghosts of sheepish workers, who hang around as a sort of penance for mistakes in construction that required the room to be hidden in the first place. During his short stay in Banff, lights have mysteriously turned on in his hotel room, his computer rebooted by itself and his tour manager claimed some sort of presence was tapping him on the shoulder Sunday night.

“There’s history,” says Coffey about the hotel.

“There’s a lot of people here celebrating good times, maybe some bad times. There’s people who are here with a lot of emotional events occurring. There were a lot of things that were heightened emotional events. Plus all the people here are very excited to be here. It’s very open and your people are networking and having a good time and they’re open and expressive emotionally. That really does attract energy, also. Our heightened excitement might heighten their excitement for trying to communicate.”

The great-grandson of Native American medicine woman Minnie Sue Morrow Foster, the 55-year-old New York native says he has always been psychic, but admits his peculiar talent for having dead people talk to him was something he discovered by accident 10 years ago when a co-worker’s dead brother started chatting him up in Atlanta, Georgia. By 2007, he was called to take part in A&E’s Paranormal State, then called Paranormal U. He would later appear in Psychic Kids: Children of the Paranormal, making him one of the more recognizable faces in North America’s fascination with all-things creepy.

Whether it be Ghost Hunters, Ghost Trackers or the History Television’s Nostradamus Effect, television is cashing in on a renewed interest in the unexplained.

“There’s a worldwide interest in spiritual and paranormal topics,”

Coffey says. “From the aspect of people looking for valid answers about the afterlife: Is it real? Does it exist? Within history, there have been these resurgences like the whole spiritualist movement in the late 1800s. Sometimes there is some correlation to world events. After 9/11 people, in my country, we were talking about spirituality and searching for answers. I think tough times can lead people to seek answers. We seek out faith and spirituality in tough times, and forget about our faith and spirituality when things are going well.”

Of course, Coffey acknowledges there is always going to be some skepticism about his activities, not only as to whether the powers he claims to have are actually real but also about how he has managed to turn them into a rather lucrative business for himself.

But Coffey himself is arguably a skeptic, at least when it comes to showing reverence to some of the end-of-the-world scenarios that are linked to the paranormal or spiritual worlds.

The Mayan calendar, for instance, supposedly suggests that the world will end in Dec. 21, 2012, a prediction that has sounded alarms in some circles. Coffey, for one, doesn’t buy it.

“People ask me what I’m going to be doing on that day,” he says. “I’m going to be doing light Christmas shopping. I think the Mayans got tired and said, ‘We’ve been doing this calendar for six weeks now. Let’s stop. Let’s go sacrifice somebody. Let’s have a feast and sacrifice a virgin. Anything other than this calendar. I’m tired of this.’

“That’s my crazy sense of humour that often comes out when I talk about topics,” he explains. “I think we take some of this stuff so seriously.”

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A man’s laughter echoed in the dark lobby of the Colony Theater in Marietta where she felt a gentle tug on her hair, but when she turned around, no one was there.

At the time, Lyons was a 16-year-old concession worker cleaning at the Colony Theater after closing time. The experience was one of several in her childhood that sparked her interest in paranormal activity.

Today, Lyons is a member of the Mid-Ohio Valley Ghost Hunters, a group that explores paranormal activity and frequents historical places in search of a spiritual presence.

“I would describe ghost hunting is a hobby of mine,

 but I like to joke that it’s my second life,” said Lyons. “I enjoy being able to talk about this stuff without people looking at me like I’m crazy.”

The group has become more popular since its formation in 2000, even catching the interest of the television show “Creepy Canada,” a program about hauntings in Canada and the United States. In 2007, members of the Mid-Ohio Valley Ghost Hunters were filmed by the Canadian television crew during an all-night ghost hunt in Moundsville.

Tom Moore, the group’s founder, said the Mid-Ohio Valley is full of historical buildings, cemeteries and houses that have shown signs of paranormal activity. The group has traveled to the Twin City Opera House in McConnelsville, Silver Run Tunnel in Cairo, the old West Virginia State Penitentiary in Moundsville, Eaton’s Tunnel near Walker, Trans Allegheny Books, the Van Winkle Mansion, Quincy Hill, Fort Boreman Park and Riverview Cemetery.

Most places of interest allow ghost hunting groups

 to conduct hunts and all-night outings for a small fee or donation.

“This area is full of historical places with interesting stories behind them,” said Moore. “When I go to a new place, I like to go in open-minded, without having too much knowledge about the history of that place. That way if I experience something, I know I haven’t been influenced somehow.”

Moore said people are drawn to ghost hunting for the thrill, the excitement and a curiosity about the spiritual world.

“Once you start ghost hunting

 and you have a personal experience, it’s hard to stop,” said Moore.

Cameras, recording devices, boom microphones and night surveillance equipment are used by the group to capture sounds and movement. Disturbances in electromagnetic fields are measured and infrared thermometers capture dramatic temperature changes.

“We use various pieces of equipment to gather evidence,” said Moore. “We’ve picked up background voices, shadowy figures and temperature changes of around 30 degrees in just a few minutes.”

The group plans two or three ghost hunts each month, usually scheduled around full or new moons.

Some outings are uneventful. Others are filled with strange happenings.

The most memorable paranormal experience for Moore occurred nearly five years ago at Prospect Place Mansion in Dresden, Ohio. The house is on the National Register of Historic Places and was a stop on the Underground Railroad.

“I saw a girl walking around the staircase wearing a dress down to her ankles. She looked like a normal person, but as she walked around the stairs, she disappeared right before my eyes,” said Moore.

Later, he learned that in the 19th century, a young girl fell to her death from the top of the staircase.

“Ghost hunting is a lot about personal experience. I think in this type of field, it’s so easy for people to fake it. So for me, I need to actually experience something myself to believe it,” said Moore.

Meetings are 6:30 p.m. the first Tuesday of every month at the Parkersburg/Wood County Library in the Summers Auditorium. The 2010 Haunted West Virginia Ghost and Paranormal Conference will be 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Sept. 11 at the Dils Center and will feature leading experts and authors in the paranormal field.

At the conclusion of the conference, a ghost hunt will be held at the Anchorage in Marietta.

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