GHOSTLY goings-on in a Kirkham pub have been captured on the building's security cameras.

Sam Betts of the Railway Inn dicovered a network of tunnels behind the cellars of the 150-year old pub after he knocked down a separating wall.

On the same day he smashed through the wall, Sam claims a strange apparition flew through the pub's bar upstairs.

A few hours after the ancient cellar had been discovered, pub security cameras captured a strange gaseous blob rising from the bar and up past the lens.

Sam said: "It was just by chance that I saw it on film. One of our friends had been celebrating his birthday, so we showed him the recording of us all in the bar that night.

"Forensic experts came in to check the film was not faulty or tampered with and they said it was inexplicable."

Sam believes that by knocking down a wall, a paranormal spirit has been released.

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