THEY have been the scene of strange sightings, unexplained noises and ghostly goings-on since they were discovered 20 years ago.

Dozens of accounts of spooky events in Edinburgh’s 17th-century underground vaults have led to them being described as one of Britain’s most haunted places.

Now two backpackers believe they have photographic proof ghosts prowl the gloomy corridors.

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Dolores Brown and Diana Jacobs of Casa Grande had an invitation to stop by and investigate the three historic buildings that make up the museum on Florence Boulevard. What they say they found was a lot of visitors, many who have stayed beyond their expiration dates.

The two women run the Southwestern version of “Ghostbusters.” The “Ghost Sweepers,” as they call themselves, are a kinder and gentler breed of spirit seekers.

They use their skill and training, combined with guidance from angels, holy water, the 23rd Psalm, prayers, crystals, their love and “expanded hearts” to help the spirits move on to a better place, they said.

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(West Haven-AP, Aug. 17, 2005 7:30 AM) _ West Haven police say they arrested more than a dozen people who broke into an old factory looking for ghosts.

Police say the group broke into the old American Buckle Company factory on Campbell Avenue early Monday. The building is apparently on some Web site that describes the factory as one of the city’s most ghost-ridden buildings.

Police say it wasn’t getting into the spirit of things that led to the arrests. Some of the ghost hunters apparently got into some spirits, stealing liquor from a closed restaurant next to the factory.

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MEADVILLE, Pa. – Colette MacLees is looking for more than dust bunnies when she sweeps through a house.

MacLees, 51, of Meadville, a housewife and mother of adult daughters, is a paranormal investigator and wants to start her own chapter of ghost chasers in northwestern Pennsylvania.

“I always felt the house I grew up in was haunted, although there are people who will disagree with that. All my life, strange things have happened to me that I couldn’t explain,” MacLees said.

But she began chasing ghosts in earnest about two years ago after a cousin was killed in a car accident.

“I woke up in the middle of the night and could smell his cologne,” MacLees said. “I got on the Internet and began checking things like that out and learning more.”

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Television programmes such as Most Haunted have spooked potential homebuyers so much that half of them now believe in ghosts and say they would not buy a house if they thought that they were sharing it with a spirit.

A recent poll commissioned by Lloyds TSB also found that a fifth of the 2,000 homebuyers sampled would only contemplate buying a house in which things went bump in the night if an exorcism or “new-age cleansing” took place.

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Sightings of what people say are “ghosts” or “spirits” around Casa Grande are abundant. Here various residents recall their contact with the unseen or apparitions.

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YORK – Amid throngs of tourists exploring local shops and residents of York Street out for an evening stroll, a dark, hooded figure leads a curious group by the light of an old lantern.

The haunting tour guide regales the group with stories of witches, pirates, ghosts and gravestones – a unique background of our small New England town.

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