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Someone taking the mic or ghostly goings on...?
Mark Hesford15/ 8/2008
GHOSTLY goings on at a Harpurhey radio station have been lighting up the 'scare'-waves.
Staff at Manchester Radio Online, including infamous veteran DJ James Stannage, have reported strange things afoot at the Rochdale Road studios.
Tales of people being pushed by an invisible force, doors slamming, lights flickering, and the presence of a very cold spot in one of the corridors has been giving visitors the creeps.
David Foran, who runs the station, as well as the neighbouring pub The Milan, said: "There's been rumours about things going bump in the night at the pub for ages, but all these things have been happening in the studio next door.
"On one occasion, I swear I saw the hatch to the cellar moving, but no one ever goes down there and I'm the only one who has access to it!
"Some of our shows have mediums who come on, and two of them picked up on this really cold spot in the corridor."
Medium Anthony Schaeffer said: "On one of my visits I detected this very cold spot and I was immediately overwhelmed by the sense of an old man.
"He had big side whiskers, a leather jerkin and trousers with a strap or string tied under the knees, like old farm workers of the Victorian times and earlier.
"A medium who was with me at the time also got the same impression, independently of me and without prior discussion. It was only when we compared impressions that we found they were the same. We call him George.
"On my last visit to the station I smelt a very strong odour of candles burning, even though there were none there. Two other station people also smelt the candles. I got the strong impression that this was George again, but this was his time for relaxing.
"He's very benevolent and doesn't mind other people being in his old house."
Anthony plans to investigate further, having also sensed the ghost of a young boy in the studio, as well as the spectre of an old woman at the top of the stairs in the pub.
Looks like drinkers in The Milan might be finding themselves sat by a different kind of spirit when they next pop in for a pint.
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Tony Filer (Exploring the Unexplained)
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