Ghost hunter Ross visits old haunts

By smunro

A GHOST hunter claims he spotted up to three spooks a night on visits to St Briavel's Castle.

Ross Andrews has spent the past 20 years chasing ghosts throughout Gloucestershire.

The 37-year-old, of Lansdown, Cheltenham, said: "Some of the things I have seen are hard to believe. There are so many haunted places in Gloucestershire and people don't realise that."

Ross, who works as a cabaret singer when he is not hunting ghosts, said he first became interested in the paranormal while growing up in his parents' house in Up Hatherley.

He said: "There was a ghost in there which would flap around, a bit like a bat. I told my brother about it and he said, 'Yeah, it's been there for years'."

Ross is now the chairman of Parasoc, a Gloucestershire group dedicated to finding ghosts and UFOs, and spends most of his spare weekends travelling across the county with a load of expensive equipment.

"We've recently been doing some work in St Briavel's Castle where we have seen up to three ghosts a night. That place is seriously haunted."

The Forest of Dean castle, which was built by Edward I in 1292, was once a prison but is now a youth hostel.