A well-respected paranormal investigator from Bristol has said that spending the weekend in a haunted house is "like a drug". Office manager Karin Beasant, 57, became fascinated with all things paranormal as a child after watching Hammer horror films and, after experiencing a ghostly presence in a pub she bought in 1995, she said she was hooked.
Karin - who lives with her scaffolder husband Wayne, 52, and son Alex, 25, a retail worker - described how she met her first ghost in the central Bristol pub she had purchased. She said: "It wasn’t until I was 30 and purchased a haunted pub that I had my first experience of a ghost. It was like having a ghost for a roommate – for the first six months I was petrified.
"Strange things happened, like people reported a woman walking in the men’s bathroom. If I closed my bedroom door someone would kick it."
