Whatever your spiritual beliefs, there is no doubt something spooky is residing in the Observer offices.
In the week before Halloween, we invited a paranormal activity group to investigate our Chichester offices at Unicorn House, which have a well-documented history of being haunted.
With tales of full apparitions, objects moving inexplicably and bad smells, I thought we would definitely come across something with the help of Paranormal 1968, a spiritual activity group based in Bognor Regis.
Several hours of patiently waiting in the dark and calling for signs of activity among other techniques proved fruitless – but for two very strange occurrences and an eerie noise picked up by an MP3 player.
It would be easy to dismiss what happened as just a coincidence if you were not actually involved. But believe me, it was all very real.
While we were holding a vigil in a first-floor office, and calling for a spirit to show itself by any means possible, two computer screens simultaneously turned themselves on.
The second incident involved a technique called automatic writing, where members of the group clear their minds and let whatever spirit is in the room take control of a pen and write.
Two members of the group sitting in opposite sides of the room came up with the same name and the same numbers – Lawrence and 46.
Within the first 20 minutes of the six hours of recorded noise, you can clearly hear someone crying. Unless a colleague had some work to catch up on in the middle of the night, I'd say we had a visitor from beyond the grave.
With mixed results from the first part in our Halloween hunt for ghosts, I will be visiting Cowdray Ruins in Midhurst on Saturday (November 1) night looking for more spiritual activity.
Click here to see how I got on.
To hear some of the spooky sounds recorded in the office
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