The Hampshire Chronicle’s own “pet” ghost turned up again this week – rather neatly in time for Hallowe’en.

The spectre made its appearance in the corridors of the paper’s Winchester High Street offices.

Sub editor Lesley Park had the surprise of her life when she realised what was happening.

She said: “It was 6.30pm and I was getting ready to go home.

“I was making my way towards the advertising offices when I saw what I took to be a man standing at the table outside the file room. He appeared to be studying a pile of newspapers.

“As I watched, the figure turned as if to walk into the file room, which was locked.

“But when I got to the corridor leading to the file room, it had vanished.

“Funnily enough, I didn’t feel any fear, but if I’d been in the building on my own, it would have been different.”

Several people have seen the apparition over the years, and always in the same place.

The ageing building is known for being eerie when it’s dark – when floorboards creek and things go bump in the night.

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