Galleries home to England's most active ghost

NOTTINGHAM'S Galleries of Justice is home to England's most active poltergeist, ghost hunters claim.

Fright Night, which organises scary gatherings at the Galleries, say the former courthouse tops its list of the country's most active spooks.

Martin Jeffrey, Event Director at Fright Nights said the company had logged supernatural activity at 120 sites for the past decade and had visited the Galleries for the past eight years.

He said: "It doesn't surprise at all, for the last eight years we have been exploring the dark side of the Galleries of Justice Museum's history and it has been consistently active through those years.

"We visit about 15 to 20 times per year, taking around 30 people each time, and we keep getting stones being thrown on demand and that's highly unusual."

Mr Jeffrey claims stones have landed in the middle of groups of people when asks if there is a spirit presence with them.

He added: "The sceptics will say it could be somebody throwing them but we take different groups of people from around the world and we don't tell them beforehand about the throwing."

Nicola Burley, head of museum, said staff believed activity had increased since an oubliette, or bottle-shaped cave, was uncovered in February.

Archaeologists believed prisoners could have been left to die in the cave.

She said: "The poltergeist seems to be most active in what was the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon, when we uncovered what is thought to be an oubliette where prisoners were left to die, it all got a lot worse."

Staff have felt someone touch them, strange breezes and seen objects move.

The ghost is believed to be a former parson who gave prisoners their last rites and whose shadowy figure has been spotted by visitors.

The Galleries is looking for funding for further work to uncover the oubliette, which they believe could contain human remains.