SPIRITED people who are not afraid of getting a fright in the night are rising to the challenge of touring a spooky building by candlelight.
The brave souls are clamouring to walk the creepy corridors and scary staircases of Peterborough Museum, which is reputed to be the city's most haunted building, at dead of night.
The building, which used to be a house and a hospital, is reputed to haunted by a dozen ghosts, although experts in the paranormal claim to have detected up to 60 spirits.
The most recent spooky happening involved a workman who was upgrading fire alarms.
Stuart Orme, marketing and events officer at the museum, said: "The workman was in a corridor on the first floor. He heard a noise behind him and he looked round and saw the silhouette of a little girl go past behind the frosted glass on a door.
"He thought she might have got lost from a school party but he opened the door to find an empty cupboard on the other side and he was alarmed by that."
The candlelight tours have been launched to meet public demand following the successful series of ghost walks around the city centre, which celebrated their third anniversary this year.
Over the Halloween period, many of the walks sold out and, due to popular demand, the museum added extra tours.
Among the museum's ghostly residents are said to be First World War soldier Sergeant Thomas Hunter, who died in 1916, when the museum was a hospital, and a Roman soldier, who is believed to be linked to a sword in the museum's Roman collection.
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