It's the Saturday night of Halloween weekend, it's dark and we are walking towards an old mansion that emerges out of the mist like the perfect clichéd haunted house from any generic B-movie horror film from the 80s. The perfect setting then, for a ghost hunt.
Waiting for us at the door is paranormal investigator and host Yvonne Hydes and David McCabe, the group's lead medium, who are part of one of Scotland's top ghost events companies, The Scottish Ghost Company (TSGC) which has more than 20 crew members spread all across Scotland and the north of England, with experience in the area of paranormal investigations dating back decades.
Unsure of what to expect, fellow paranormal enthusiast Ali Smith and I head inside to sign in and join our fellow attendees, who are all women who have been to a TSGC event before.