Historian Chris Aspin has produced a new booklet, telling stories of strange encounters around Helmshore through the years.

Chris, of Helmshore Local History Society tells of the man on the stairs, the green light on the Grane and the haunting of Lumb Hall.

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He brought his first booklet, listing strange stories he had been told over the past 70 years at the end of 2014.

Not only did it sell out quickly, but also brought a rich crop of other experiences, which he has now published.

It outlines the haunting of Tor View, which stood at the crest of a steep narrow lane in the village, where it was believed a young girl Emma Walton died in the 1840s after some luckless love affair.

In it lived the great grandparents of travel writer and poet Joseph Braddock who spent Christmases there and listened to the stories of the sad young girl in early Victorian dress with her fair hair in a bun.

The oldest building in the district Lumb Hall, parts of which date from the 1500s has also gained a reputation for being haunted.

Mrs Baldwin who lived there for many years and became accustomed to strange happening, notably the aroma of an exquisite perfume that came, quite literally out of thin air,.

On another occasion, she, her daughter Helen and a young lodger heard footsteps coming from the room, but there was no one there when they ran up the stairs to investigate.

There is also a ghost train in the village - though the railway line through Helmshore closed in 1966, after serving the village for 118 years, a couple at Snig Hole, heard, on several occasions, in the night, the sound of a steam locomotive's whistle coming from the direction of the old track.

Neighbours, too, heard it and revealed that a train crash in 1860 had killed 10 passengers and injured 100 more.

Driving through Haslingden Grane one night in the 1970s, a clergyman and his wife saw three bright green lights hovering above the middle reservoir.

He stopped to look more closely - the lights were evenly spaced and about 100 feet above the water.

After a minute, still keeping formation they silently sped off at great speed to the east..

The clergyman could offer no explanation for what he so clearly saw.

*True stories of Local Ghosts, priced at £2.60, including p&p, is on sale in local shops and from the author at Flat 21, Westbourne, Helmshore Road, Helmshore.