01/04/99: A leading ghostbuster from the Belgrave Hall spook squad probe today boasted: What we have done here will change the world.
Mr Sutton joined the investigation team which last week jetted in from the United States to run the rule over the Leicester museum.
Parapsychologists used a hi-tech magnetometer and electro-temperature gauges to log atmospheric changes as clairvoyants and mediums tried to make contact with the spirits said to haunt the place.
Dr Larry Muntz, the man who inspired the smash hit movie Ghostbusters, found his dials registered activity as the psychics claimed to have made contact with five ghosts thought to be prowling their old haunt.
He discovered the temperature around them plunged by up to 15F during their chilling chats.
The investigation named three members of the former home of the Ellis family – suffragette Charlotte Ellis, Margaret Ellis and Edward Shipley – as the spirits who just cannot let go of Leicester life.
Two servants are thought to also be hard at work waiting on their long-dead masters.
The inquiry followed the huge interest sparked when a security camera caught a five-second freeze frame of an unexplained image
The investigators claim the hall is riddled with ghosts. And there’s no place like home for the dearly undeparted souls who cannot tear themselves away from the historic hall.
The supernatural sleuths comprised Los Angeles parapsychologist Shaun Roop, Californian clairvoyant Daena MacKenzie, psychic Peter James, from Hollywood and Dr Muntz.
They were also joined by Southport medium Derek Acorah who claims a spirit admitted it deliberately tampered with the CCTV camera.
Mr Sutton said: “They told him they did it in order to prove to the world there is life after death.
“The spirits at Belgrave Hall actually enjoy being there. They are happy spirits, not ones who want to frighten anybody.
“Because of the millennium, everybody’s expecting something big to happen. We believe it is this.”
He claimed the ghosts passed on information about the hall and its former residents from the other side, which was then verified by museum staff.
He added: “People have derided this as mumbo-jumbo. But the mediums didn’t know anything about the property.”
