Two glass phials said to contain the ghosts of an old man and a young girl have sold for NZ$2,000 ($1,395:£935) in an online auction in New Zealand.

The auction, which ended on Monday night, attracted more than 200,000 page views on the Trade Me website.

Avie Woodbury said the ghosts had been captured in her Christchurch house by an exorcist and stored in holy water.

The top bidders, a company making fake cigarettes, said they were looking for ideas on what to do with the ghosts.

Ms Woodbury told bidders she had experienced “bizarre activity” in her home.

“I would get things like the jug boiling itself, touching on the back of my neck, voices from other rooms, and items going missing then turning up in weird places,” she said.

“The dog was mental, he wouldn’t go into certain rooms and my brother’s daughter would stay with me and she said she spoke to a little girl.”

But after a member of a local spiritualist church performed an exorcism in July last year, the house had returned to normal, said Ms Woodbury.

The ghost of the old man and the girl had been safely contained in holy water, she said, which “sort of puts them to sleep”.

“I just want to get rid of them as they scare me. But someone might like these to play with,” she said.

Sceptical

The lot was viewed nearly 220,000 times in a week and received scores of comments, ranging from practical issues about how to ensure the ghosts remained in the bottles to concerns over the morality of selling another person’s spirit.

Other enquiries were more sceptical, with one reader suggesting he too had spirits in bottles in a cupboard at home.

“I think they are called Jim Beam and the other is Johnnie Walker,” he said.

The closing bid went to a company called Safer Smoke NZ, which produces electric cigarettes – they paid NZ$2,830 for the two bottles.

The company said it was now inviting suggestions as to what they should do with the ghosts.

Ms Woodbury said all profits from the sale would be donated to an animal charity, after she had paid the exorcist’s fees

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For about 10 days in February 1970, a series of strange occurrences is said to have plagued 237 Church St, Apt. 1. Pictures flying off walls. Bookcases crashing to the floor without cause. A police officer sitting in a chair that was picked up six inches off the floor

The kind of spooky stuff made for movies.

The root cause of this otherworldly chaos?

Legend has it, an 11-year-old boy, Peter, who remains anonymous to this day, was taken over by a poltergeist.

At the time, the paranormal tale made headlines in The Standard, across Canada and the United States. Even former Tonight Show host Johnny Carson mentioned it in his monologue back then.

Decades later, the story of a ghostly presence wreaking havoc in the modest downtown apartment has endured.

“I think it’s been unshaken, as far as the evidence goes,” said Michael Clarkson, a former Standard reporter who wrote a 2006 book called Poltergeists: Examining Mysteries of the Paranormal.

“I’m not a devotee of the paranormal, but I can’t think of a case that still stands up after 40 years. The witnesses … no one’s come forward to say it’s a hoax.”

***

Forty years later, retired police officer Richard Colledge is still a believer.

Now 70 years old, Colledge was one of a handful of officers from the former St. Catharines Police Department to visit the Church Street apartment.

He remembers going into the unit after reports of things moving around on their own. He was 30 at the time. A constable with five years experience who had spent six years before that with the Canadian Armed Forces.

And he was skeptical — until it happened.

Colledge said he was standing in the kitchen in front of the sink when a picture came flying off the wall in the adjoining bedroom.

“All I know for sure is when it came off the wall it didn’t fall down on the single bed that was underneath it. It came out and landed on the floor, and I watched it,” Colledge said with a laugh.

“I thought it was violating the laws of psychics and gravity,” he said.

He didn’t stay much longer after that.

Colledge wasn’t the only police officer to witness strange goings on at the second-storey apartment.

Several police notes written by his colleagues at the time chronicled the events.

Const. Bill Weir wrote about witnessing “phenomenal occurrences” during a visit to the residence on Feb. 10, 1970. He was there with his buddy Const. Bob Crawford.

He called in the city building inspector to see if the odd movements could be explained by structural problems. No luck.

“My only solution to these occurrences is that the boy Peter, whom all the occurrences surround, has been inhabited by a spirit of a ‘POLTERGEIST,’” Weir wrote in his investigation report.

“This is the spirit which inhabits the body of a young child about to enter the phase of puberty and has been described as a mischievous spirit that does not generally seriously harm anyone…. Briefly, this boy can’t sit on a chair without being thrown off and items are hitting him for no apparent reason. I the writer (Weir) witnessed the boy being thrown on at last a dozen occasions …”

Two days later, Const. Robert Richardson reported visiting the residence with four other officers and a raft of tape recording and movie cameras.

He joined a circle of people in the living room that day. The paranormal-plagued boy, his eight-year-old younger brother, the boy’s parents, two doctors, a local priest and the family lawyer.

Then, the unimaginable.

“At this time, the chair that (name blacked out) was sitting on lifted abruptly about six inches off the floor, and then slammed down again…. On examining the chair, there was no explanation for this happening,” he wrote.

Doug Croft was just seven years old when his police officer father, Lebert, told him about his experiences at the Church Street residence.

Croft grew up in east St. Catharines, just a few blocks from the cursed apartment.

At the time, most of the guys tried not to broadcast their chance encounter with the dark side.

They were worried people would think they were crazy, he said. And they were frightened of what lurked behind the felled bookcases and picture frames.

“They were scared to death,” said Croft, who is a 47-year-old police officer with the Niagara Regional Police.

“At first it was kind of like, ‘Geez I hope I get a call there to see what the hell’s going on. You guys are shooting a line of s—or something.’

“But guys came out of there, they were scared to death. It was something weird.”

Clarkson’s brush with the supernatural started with a simple Halloween spook story.

He wrote about the Church Street poltergeist investigation for The Standard in October 1980.

Soon after he got a call. It was the boy, then 21 years old.

He was plagued. Not by ghosts, but by family problems. His family was upset that Clarkson had drudged up the past with his story. The memories were painful. During the media storm of 1970, the family was forced to leave town for a few weeks. Embarrassed by the events, the family didn’t want to relive the past. Clarkson had opened old wounds.

The poltergeist-riddled-boyturned-young-man called Clarkson from a pay phone on Halloween night 1980. He asked if he could come to Clarkson’s Niagara Falls home.

Before long, they were face to face in Clarkson’s office.

He was not what the young journalist expected.

“I thought there would be something strikingly different about him,” said Clarkson, a Toronto freelance journalist who has also worked at the Calgary Herald and the Toronto Star.

“When he came to my house it seemed to me, initially anyway, that he was like the boy next door. Very clean cut, well dressed, very well spoken, quite sure of himself.”

The young man didn’t discuss what happened to him that February in 1970. He was there to protect his privacy, his future in St. Catharines.

“He was worried about what other people in the community, a very conservative community like St. Catharines, might think about him, especially when he’s dealing with young people.”

Over the years, Clarkson saw him a few times. Walking downtown, hand in hand, with a girl. In the pages of The Standard. On a golf course.

Clarkson said the boy has gone on to become an upstanding man in the community. He works with youth.

For all these years, Clarkson, who worked as a daily newspaper reporter for 38 years, has kept the man’s secret.

But decades later, Clarkson, who highlights the St. Catharines case in his Poltergeist book, can’t shake the eerie legacy of that downtown Church Street apartment. His skepticism enduring, Clarkson calls the Garden City poltergeist case one of the best examples of a true ghostly encounter.

“Nobody has been able to shake the facts of the case,” Clarkson said. “In this day and age when so many things have been revealed as hoaxes, this stands up as a real mystery.”

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The White Inn at the stroke of midnight.

At the end of a lengthy corridor lies a single white door leading to a room in which many mysteries await. A night behind this closed door might leave uneasy patrons nervous to return.

The White Inn is filled with mystery and many spooky rooms that attract numerous customers, not only for the food, but for the thrills that the Inn might bring. It all began in the early 19th century, when the property on which the Inn stands now fell into the hands of Dr. Squire White.

The first house to be built on the land was in 1868, when White erected a frame house and made it the permanent residence of the White family. Not long after, an unfortunate event devastated the White family when the house caught fire. Devillo White, Dr. White’s son, decided to rebuild a better, more substantial home. In 1868, The Second Empire brick mansion was constructed.

It wasn’t until 1918 that the history of the Inn would begin to develop. Murray Hill Bartley of Westfield purchased the property from the last remaining White family member, Miss Isabelle White. Bartley expanded the house considerably and opened it as a hotel to the public in 1919.

Since then, the White Inn has become a popular destination. With its 40 Victorian-styled guest rooms, a dining hall and of course, its mysterious “bump in the night” noises, the Inn remains a major icon within the community. Countless stories describing what these “noises” could be include those of several figures the White Inn has seen over the years.

One popular and captivating story is that of Jack Maloney and his wife, Helen. In 1968, Jack, suffering from depression, murdered his wife by clobbering her over the head with a book end. He then committed suicide by taking a shot of insulin. This tragic event has haunted the White Inn’s walls ever since.

Guests have reported smelling cigar smoke, possibly from Jack’s own cigars. One woman even claimed a female figure appeared at the end of her bed one night and talked to her. Room 272, where the murder/suicide occurred, is available; especially to all those who wish to try their luck at experiencing paranormal activity. As Rohan Patrick, the current manager of the Inn said, “If you seek it out, it will be there.”

Many staff members at the Inn claim to have experienced strange paranormal activity.
“Several staff mentioned that they have seen Isabella White in the kitchen, room 264 and her room where she actually resided when living here, 314,” Rohan Patrick, the White Inn’s most recent owner said.

Slamming doors, unexplained noises and ghost sightings have been reported from staff members regarding Isabella White. “It’s creepy,” said one staff member, “I don’t like being in the kitchen or really anywhere at night by myself.”

Supposedly, Isabella White was not very pleased to see her family’s house converted into a hotel. It is said she used to sit in her rocking chair on her porch next door to the Inn watching, with a disapproving glare, as her house was being completely changed. It is believed that her spirit wanders the Inn because of her unhappiness and unwillingness to let the Inn, which was once her home, slip away forever.

SUNY Fredonia’s own paranormal group, Paranormal Research Association of Fredonia (PRAF), decided to test out these claims and conduct a ghost hunt at the Inn. While they did not see any ghosts, the members of the group reported “feeling uneasy” in room 272 and 264. Jeremy Steincamp, president of PRAF described the room as “really uncomfortable.”

“There were so many weird noises. It’s an old building, so weird noises are normal. No one else was in the building, so the door slamming has no explanation. And the unexplainable EMF [Electro Magnetic Field] readings, that’s still a mystery,” Steincamp said.

Putting aside all the reports of what might be paranormal activity, Patrick focuses on taking care of the facility. When he became manager of the White Inn a year and a half ago he was not informed of the building’s paranormal history. However, as much as he does believe in the paranormal, Patrick tries to look at things optimistically.

The White Inn has had several previous owners, including SUNY Fredonia professors David Briant and David Palmer. These individuals spent 13 years refurbishing and renovating the Inn. Following the ownership of Briant and Palmer, Robert Contiguglia and Kathleen Dennison took over the Inn and kept the lodging and food services running.

Under the ownership of these individuals, the paranormal activity was used as an extra way to draw in guests and grab people’s interest. Patrick has a different approach.
“Previous owners played it up a lot. They liked the idea of the mysteries and haunting. It’s not that I don’t like it but I don’t play on it,” said Patrick. “I have a philosophy and it’s ‘let the dead rest in peace.’”

Although the belief in paranormal phenomena is not universal, many guests and staff have made it clear that what they have experienced is definitely out of the ordinary. Unexplained noises, slamming doors and unidentified ghost sightings are among the thrills and chills the Inn has already presented to its guests.

The White Inn is quite an impressive, historical attraction. Not only does it charm people with its delightful, welcoming rooms and suites, but it serves as a fine dining facility. And of course, we can’t forget the Inn’s additional feature: a home to the spirits of the White Inn’s past.

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The old Brisbane law courts.

Unexplained whooshes of air rushing down corridors, a seemingly-possessed elevator and a judge’s chair that mysteriously spins in the night.

If you ask staff at Brisbane’s Supreme and District Court building – the place is haunted.

Security officers who patrol the court building’s corridors after hours say dozens of  “spooky and freaky” incidents within the walls of the 40-year-old building have them believing in ghosts.

Even burly tradesmen called to do maintenance have high-tailed out of the place after what they believed was a supernatural incident in the basement.

And Brisbane historian Jack Sim says it’s not just nonsense: ghosts are attracted to gruesome places such as courts.

Speaking to brisbanetimes.com.au, a female security guard at the court complex said she was certain ghosts roamed the building.

During night shift she often sees the chair in Court 21 slowly spinning as if someone was sitting in it.

“There’s no draught in there, no way that any breeze is causing that,” she said.

Other court sources say Court 21 used to be the court used by an old judge who died from a heart attack and the spinning chair is his spirit haunting his old workplace.

Another worker says in Court 21 and next door in Court 22, the duress alarm repeatedly goes off and when the room is unlocked and checked out, there’s not a soul around.

One guard tells how two years ago two painters were in a sealed-off room in the building’s basement doing maintenance work when, they claimed, a gust of icy cold wind “whooshed” past them.

“They were quick out of there and never came back,” said a court source.

“They were convinced there was something freaky going on down there.”

One night as one security officer manned the front desk, he heard a nearby elevator ‘ding’ and then the doors open as if someone was about to get out on to the ground floor.

No one was in the lift, but moments later heard the hand dryer go off in the nearby public bathroom. Again, no one there.

“Then about a minute after that the exit doors just started to rattle rattle rattle, as if someone had grabbed the handles and was desperately trying to get out,” he said.

“It got me worked up all right. It was the strangest thing I’ve ever seen.”

The worker said he often felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up while he was walking around the building on night shift.

“You get the feeling someone’s right behind you and when you turn around of course there’s nothing there,” he said.

“But I do think there are ghosts around here, for sure.”

Another court staffer often in the building after hours said portraits of old judges on the walls and plastic dummies dressed in 1800s clothes as part of an historical display on the second floor certainly did not help him to forget the haunted rumours.

“A few times those faces have given me a scare,” he said.

“Also one of the elevators, the one which goes to the basement, seems to be possessed with all its door slamming and doors staying jammed open, that sort of thing.”

Horror historian Jack Sim said he had heard many stories about the Supreme and District Court building being haunted.

A stop at the building, on the corner of George and Adelaide streets, is included in Ghost Tours he conducts in the city.

“The court building is such a dark place with so much drama and so much of our most gruesome criminal history has been played out there,” he said.

“It’s a place where stories of violence and horror have been heard and ghosts are often drawn to these sort of places. Their spirits get trapped there.”

Mr Sim, author of the book Haunted Brisbane, has interviewed several staffers who claimed to have witnessed ghost activity in the building, particularly in the basement.

He said the workers believed the ghosts belonged to prisoners who died in the cells of the original court building built in 1876.

The structure was burnt down by an arsonist in 1968 but some of the original basement cells were kept and form part of today’s court building, he said.

“It’s an amazing place in the history of Queensland,” he said.

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Spooky: The ghostly image of a young boy appears in this photograph of demolition work at Anlaby Primary School, near Hull, which is said to be haunted

The ghostly image of a young boy was captured on camera as builders demolished an old school building.

John Fores, 47, insists the spectral figure was not present when he took the picture of the part-demolished brick building.

But when he looked back at the images he spotted the boy, aged around eight with short hair

Mr Fores was carrying out demolition work on the site at Anlaby Primary School, near Hull, East Yorkshire. He took several pictures on his mobile phone to record the demolition work.

He said: ‘I took the pictures just after noon. I took a few and at the time didn’t notice anything.

‘When I put the pictures on the computer and I saw the figure, the hairs on the back of my neck stuck up.

‘I couldn’t believe what I had seen. I didn’t believe in ghosts, but since I got this picture I am not so sure.’

The image of the young boy is exceptionally clear, but the builder insists he has not altered the picture in any way.

The school, which is still in use, was built in 1936.

Caretaker Gordon Bradshaw, 54, said it has a reputation for being haunted.

He said: ‘I’ve been here 29 years and the kids have always said there is a ghost at the school. I’ve never seen anything though.’

Rob Taylor, of the Hull Paranormal Ghost Society, said: ‘I have never seen anything as clear and as distinctive as the boy in the picture.

‘I am aware of people using mobile phones and getting orbs and misty images. It needs further investigating.’

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Wander into Indianapolis’s coffee house and you might get more than a cup of joe. In addition to being one of the city’s favorite cafes, it’s also the most haunted.

“Several customers, employees and visitors have reported the presence of a ghost in the back rooms of Lazy Daze,” explains Alan E. Hunter, paranormal expert and author of “Irvington Haunts.” “Apparently, this ghost likes to haunt the single restroom in the rear of the establishment.”

The homey coffee shop lies on the East side of Indianapolis in a quaint district called Irvington, which is well known for its haunted buildings, homes and streets. “Haunted Irvington” walking tours take participants past the homes of Ku Klux Klan Grand Dragon and murderer D.C. Stephenson and past a restaurant reportedly haunted by gangster John Dillinger.

The coffee shop is nestled inside of The Irving Theate, a building established in 1913. Though it no longer operates as a theater, the patrons, baristas and owner of Lazy Daze (and those who live in the above apartments) have plenty ghostly tales to tell, including the apparition’s affinity for chess.
According to Hunter, the Lazy Daze ghost has the ability to sound like a man or a woman and often whispers the question, “What are you doing?” Owner Jeff Coppinger has had many strange experiences in the front of the shop as well.

“One morning I was opening up the coffee house, getting the place ready and straightened up for business,” Coppinger tells Asylum. “I put the chess pieces on to the playing table and then went to the back room for a little bit. I came back to the front office and noticed that all the chess pieces had moved.”

Visit the coffee shop today and you’ll find that those pieces are no longer sitting out.

“I keep them put up now,” said Coppinger. “If anyone wants to play with them, they can ask.”

Despite the ghostly spirits, Lazy Daze has regularly been voted the best coffee house in the city since its establishment in 2003. Besides, “Lazy Daze ghosts are friendly and are not known to purposefully frighten anyone who visits or works there,” insists Hunter.

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Submitted photo - This historic home in Harpers Ferry is known as the Booth House and the ‘Haunted Cottage.’ Its new owners are creating a museum on the history of ghost hunting and offering classes on the subject.

HARPERS FERRY – A Harpers Ferry home is slated to become the site of a new paranormal history museum and research center – called the “Haunted Cottage” because of mysterious occurrences there through the years.

“We’ve heard footsteps. We’ve had objects disappear, and reappear later,” said Vince Wilson, head of the Harpers Ferry Society for Paranormal Research, and the guide of an international organization called the Paranormal Investigators Coalition.

Wilson said the museum – which already is partially open – will be located in the cottage, also known as the Booth House.

The property previously belonged to the family of John Wilkes Booth, who stayed at the site while visiting the area in 1859 to witness the hanging of famed abolitionist John Brown, Wilson said. At least 12 deaths have reportedly occurred in the home, he added.

The property’s history piqued the coalition’s interest, said Wilson, a professional paranormal investigator who has written three books about how to undertake such investigations. He said the coalition previously had an office space in Baltimore. “But it wasn’t haunted, it was just an office we worked out of,” he explained.

The group members also leased the Booth House in Harpers Ferry, and as they learned more about it, Wilson said their interest in the home grew. When the structure went up for sale, they immediately purchased it.

The building is home to a library on paranormal activity that contains nearly 500 volumes on ghosts and the science that surrounds their study, he said. Training sessions are held each week to help budding paranormal investigators learn more about the field.

Wilson said the courses range from “ghost hunting 101,” to sessions that focus on specific topics, including the use of photography in paranormal investigations.

Wilson said knowing the ins and outs of the trade is important for those who are about to undertake an investigation. These tips often do not come across in the television shows that have recently raised the profile of ghost hunting and turned it in to a popular endeavor.

“We try to use common sense techniques … lowest common denominator techniques,” he said.

Part of the investigative process is realizing that if a story sounds like it’s not true, chances are it probably isn’t, he said. Those who are listening to a possible ghost story should consider whether it sounds similar to others that they have heard before. A story about objects moving around or apparitions appearing, he said, is far more likely to be real than one about a ghost watching the History Channel to find out how the Civil War ended.

Wilson said it is not uncommon for investigations to prove that a ghost story was false.

“We estimate that about 90 percent of the investigations that we’ve gone to over the course of a year are debunked,” Wilson said.

So far, however, the ghost sightings at the Booth House have not been able to be debunked by Wilson and his colleagues. People have turned off the lights, only to return later and find them back on again, he said. Another time, the remote control for a television was somehow moved from one part of the house to another, its batteries removed and scattered around.

Wilson said the house gives investigators a place to try out their skills, noting that the space can be rented out by other ghost hunters seeking to try their luck on their own. The home can be used for birthdays, weddings and overnight paranormal investigations.

A museum is in the works on the property to show the progression of ghost hunting over time. Degrees of interest in the topic have been around for centuries. The official field of paranormal investigation came in to being nearly 120 years ago, he said.

Wilson himself began testing out his skills in the field 11 years ago, visiting bridges and taverns that were reportedly haunted.

“I was going on these little adventure tours with a friend of mine,” he explained.

Wilson said the duo started applying scientific principles to their research. He used what he learned to write the book “Ghost Tech,” and later “Ghost Science” and “Ultimate Ghost Hunter.”

“It’s my career of choice,” he said of his vocation in paranormal investigations.

What he’s seen through his work in the field has left him with a clear opinion on ghostly activity.

“We think that ghosts are an imprint on the environment,” he said.

Now, he’s hoping that he and others will be able to use Harpers Ferry’s Booth House to teach a new generation of ghost hunters about the history of the field, and the skills needed to be successful.

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The spooky snap was taken at a building hailed as one of Britain’s most haunted.

And the shadowy girl appears to be on the first floor, in what used to be a magnificent banquet hall.

The floor in that room crumbled away years ago, meaning there is nothing for a person to stand on.

Company boss Kevin Horkin took the photo at Gwrych Castle in Abergele, North Wales, but only saw the ghostly figure when he downloaded his pictures later.

Kevin, 48, said: “I did feel a presence there. It was a cold day when I visited, but it seemed warm near the building.

“There seems to be a sense of tragedy there.”

Kevin, believes the figure is someone who once lived at the castle. He plans to investigate further with a ghost-hunting team.

The North Wales Paranormal Research Group says many sightings have already been recorded at Gwrych.

The castle, built in 1819, has been derelict since 1985.

Photo taken by Kevin Horkin

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“It’s a spectacular building an a spectacular sight designed by a couple of monumental architects from Rochester, whose buildings all do tend to get ghost stories,” said local author and supernatural historian Mason Winfield.

Wedged between a mass of taller buildings in the heart of downtown Buffalo, Old County Hall is one of the region’s architectural gems. But those of you headed there to attend a court hearing or to file paperwork with the clerk could bump into an uninvited guest, who passed away violently more than a century ago.

On September 6, 1901 President William McKinley was in Buffalo for the Pan American Exposition. After he entered the Temple of Music, assassin Leon Czolgosz shot him with a gun hidden in a bar towel. McKinley died from infection eight days later. In a noble procession, McKinley’s flag-draped casket was brought to Old County Hall, where was was laid in state for all to see, including the man who murdered him.

“The assassin was tried and convicted here, and he was led by the body in state several times on his way to a court appearance, as if to shame him, looking at the very noble man, beloved president that he shot,” Winfield said.

More than 150,000 people passed through the lobby of Old County Hall to pay their final respects to the fallen president. But, rumor has it, long after they moved his body out of this building, people continued to see him.

“There have been people reporting that occasionally they see a body on a table laid out in state, and as many of them are unaware, this is where President McKinley was laid out, the sightings are a little more convincing.” Winfield said.

Today, a small plate on the floor surrounding by two flags in the lobby marks the sad moment in American history. But Winfield also believes the old building might be a portal for all sorts of paranormal activity because of what happened on its grounds before it was built in 1876.

“First of all, it’s located on top of Franklin Square, which is an old cemetery,” Winfield said. “Many victims of the burning of Buffalo in 1813, and veterans of the War of 1812 were buried there. There’s a lot trauma, a lot of sudden deaths. And the graveyard was theoretically relocated, I think in 1875, to Forest Lawn. We know there are still bodies under there.”

Perhaps Old County Hall’s most famous deceased visitor isn’t the only one still roaming its halls, long after their time on Earth.

Michael died aged 50 last June, after taking a cocktail of drugs including powerful anaesthetic Propofol. His personal physician Dr Conrad Murray was charged with involuntary manslaughter on Monday, but has pleaded not guilty.

The pop icon’s former make-up artist Karan Faye has revealed she and Lisa Marie visited a psychic last week, and were put in touch with Michael.

“He seemed to be on a mission to reach out to people in his life and be forgiven. Michael spent his time explaining his faults and wanting us to forgive him. He seemed unsettled,” she told British newspaper The Sun.

“The psychic turned to me and said, ‘Michael is telling me, ‘You took such good care of me and I am so sorry I hurt you so much’.’ He said he should have listened to me more. It hit me straight in the heart.”

Karen claims the medium did not know she used to work with Michael. She is convinced Michael spoke to them, claiming things were said which only the ‘King of Pop’ could have known.

“There were definite, deep insights that would have been difficult to make up. It was detailed about the inner dynamics of his family and his levels of pain and emotional inability,” she explained.

Michael did not talk about the charges against Murray, apparently saying they were not for him to comment on.

Michael and Lisa Marie married in 1994, but they parted ways after 18 months. Following his death, she wrote an entry on her blog saying how sad she was to hear of his passing.

“He was an amazing person and I am lucky to have gotten as close to him as I did and to have had the many experiences and years that we had together. I desperately hope that he can be relieved from his pain, pressure and turmoil now,” she wrote.

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