25/11/00: Residents believe there is not a ghost of a chance that Belgrave is one of the most haunted sites in Britain.
Ghostbusters are probing goings-on in an area of the city dubbed the Belgrave Triangle.
Investigators from the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena (ASSAP) believe Belgrave Hall Museum, Belgrave House and the Talbot pub are all haunted.
Psychics have recorded something ghostly buried in the garden of Belgrave Hall.
Now they have set about out researching to try to find answers.
But residents and workers in the area today dismissed the ghostbusters’ claims.
Belgrave postmaster Sukhdev Sangha said: “I have been here 23 years and nobody has ever mentioned seeing ghosts to me! People come to visit the area because they read about all these ghosts. It’s all in the mind.”
Natu Chauhan, added: “I manage a club here and I often walk down the street after midnight when I finish work and I have never seen anything.”
Belgrave councillor John Thomas said the only spirits in the Talbot were likely to be the ones in bottles. He added: ” I know it is a very old area and I would be quite interested to hear what this team has to say.”
The ASSAP team plan to investigate underground tunnels linking the hall with Belgrave House and the Talbot.
ASSAP chairman Phil Walton said: “There is a lot of history there and there have been a lot of photographs taken in the Belgrave Triangle which are a bit ambiguous.”
Imogen Cox, museum assistant at Belgrave Hall, said: “I heard a door slam the other day and went to investigate who was in the room, but there was no-one there. It’s not scary, but I’d change my mind if I saw one.”
Shaun Knapp, from Leicester City Council’s museum service, said: “There are all manner of things going on there, but the staff are getting complacent.
“Once you’ve heard one door slamming and seen lights going on and off by themselves, you’ve seen everything.”
