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Former Bracknell Town Mayor Jennie McCraken was harassed by the ghost for the first year of living at their former Binfield house.

She eventually turned to family friend Terry Walters – an amateur exorcist – to rid them of the spooky serpent.

And the wife of leading Bracknell Forest Borough councillor Iain McCracken added that the experience turned her into a firm believer in the paranormal.

She said: “I was open-minded about it before, having never seen a ghost, but after this experience I am definitely not sceptical any more.

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Television programmes such as Most Haunted have spooked potential homebuyers so much that half of them now believe in ghosts and say they would not buy a house if they thought that they were sharing it with a spirit.

A recent poll commissioned by Lloyds TSB also found that a fifth of the 2,000 homebuyers sampled would only contemplate buying a house in which things went bump in the night if an exorcism or “new-age cleansing” took place.

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Sightings of what people say are “ghosts” or “spirits” around Casa Grande are abundant. Here various residents recall their contact with the unseen or apparitions.

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YORK – Amid throngs of tourists exploring local shops and residents of York Street out for an evening stroll, a dark, hooded figure leads a curious group by the light of an old lantern.

The haunting tour guide regales the group with stories of witches, pirates, ghosts and gravestones – a unique background of our small New England town.

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Want to see haunted places in Lake and Porter counties — like Ghost Road, the haunted hotels and the site of a circus train wreck that killed 86 people?

The Northwest Indiana Chapter of the Indiana Ghost Trackers is inviting the public to come along during the fifth year of spine-chilling Ghost Tours.

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As paranormal investigators, Hall, Sharon Gallant, Michelle Carter, and Brenda Woodman track down spirits in private homes, businesses, and graveyards. The group does not charge for its services, which include the use of digital cameras, electronic voice phenomenon (EVP), pendulums, and dousing rods in an attempt to prove the spirits’ existence.

“We do it because it helps us show other people that when you die you do live on – in another dimension,” Hall said. “But you do live on – on another level of consciousness.”

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Bev took several pictures of each group at the tables. One shot she took she realised that one lady was missing, so she snapped another photo when she returned to the table.

The following Wednesday Bev had 60 photos printed from her camera. “I was astounded when sorting through the prints to find a white ghostly figure in one of the photos of a group.

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The Society For Paranormal Research, a national group, have also visited Darley Dale station after a number of ghosts were spotted.

The ghostly figure of a soldier is said to haunt Rowsley and a fireman is believed to haunt the sheds at Darley Dale station.

Jack Phillips, vice-president of the paranormal group, which was at Rowsley last weekend, said: “It was absolutely fantastic. Suffice to say there was enough going on. We are going back again. It’s the strangest place I have ever been to in 20 years of paranormal investigation.”

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“In Cumbria we have gone from 60 UFO sightings in 2003 to 40 in 2004 and none at all this year,” he lamented.

“It means that the number of people keeping their eyes on the skies is greatly diminished. There are only a handful of us now.

“We are a dying breed in this part of the country. I put it down to the end of the X-Files, a lack of military exercises in the area that would produce UFO sightings and a lack of strange phenomena.” Mr Parr has tried to keep the extraterrestrial flame alive. He has three camcorders and whips them out whenever he hears of sightings elsewhere in the country in the hope that the flying saucer in question takes a wrong turn up the M6. But it never does. He doesn’t exactly sell his subject, though. About 90 per cent of sightings, he says, are due to nocturnal military activity.

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