'Yvette Fielding helped me contact my dead mum and we talked about lasagne and comedians'

It’s not every day you get to visit the UK’s most celebrated female ghost hunter to try contacting the dead – nor can you expect to have a full-blown conversation with a loved one who’s passed on.

But that’s exactly what happened when I met Yvette Fielding. The former Blue Peter presenter and Most Haunted icon invited me into her quirky Cheshire home in a bid to show me the power of the spirit world.

“Speaking to spirits is a blessing,” she explains, as she whips up coffees in the kitchen. “It’s so important to give people comfort that their loved ones are at peace. They’re not gone – they’re in paradise but they’re also with you.”