GHOSTLY goings-on in a Fylde pub have revealed a mysterious history behind the building.

Landlord Sam Betts of the Railway Inn in Kirkham has found a network of tunnels behind the cellars of the 150-year old pub, but on the day one tunnel was opened, a strange apparition flew through the bar above it.

The theory is that by knocking down a wall to reveal the extra part of the cellar, which is much older than the rest of the pub, a paranormal spirit had been released.

A few hours after the ancient cellar had been discovered, pub security cameras captured on film a weird gaseous blob, which Sam describes as ectoplasm, rising from the bar and up past the camera.

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.

"Then I just saw the thing flying up towards the camera - it was only in three frames of the film and so lasted around a third of a second.

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

Former owners of the pub have experienced the paranormal there too - and Sam has heard reports of a ghostly lady wandering around the premises leaving the smell of her perfume behind.

The ancient cellars beneath the building appear to be made of an older stone than the rest of the pub and he thinks the Railway Inn could well have been built on ruins of an older building - perhaps Walton Hall.

Sam said: "I have been a bit of a sceptic and am not really fazed by the whole thing, but I want to know what it is."

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