He would walk into the room and I would start crying as I was scared.
My grandmother would go off and do something and the figure would appear. "It used to happen often when I was left alone. He looked like someone from the 1900s and we reckon now it was my granddad's dad. "She was wrong, it was because I would see this gentleman in the house - a tall figure wearing a suit. "When I went over to my nan's house, I used to cry a lot and she thought it was because I didn't like her," he laughed. In broad daylight in his grandmother's London kitchen when he was just three years old, Tony said he started meeting a ghost. Since as early as he can remember, Tony said he has experienced spooky sightings. I think that helps spirits to manifest around me more easily." "I suffer from ADHD and have higher energy levels than most people. "When we first got together, ghost hunting was already a big passion of mine, so I took her to events and she noticed the amount of paranormal activity that happens around me," he said. Tony on an investigation (Image: (PA Real Life)) "They believe that was the last walk he did before he was hanged, as he was the last man to be hanged at Bodmin jail," he said.īeing a "magnet" for ghosts has had its uses for Tony, who said it helped to clinch his relationship with Beverley, who has also had a long-term interest in all things paranormal. Preferring not to research the locations before his visits, so he has no prejudice or expectation of what he will find, Tony later discovered that his extraordinary film had been shot on the anniversary of the death of William Hampton - who was hanged at the jail on July 20, 1909. He said: "You can see a figure that looks sort of 'olde-worlde' with his head down walking across the bottom of the cells. It was like a paranormal hangover."īut this is not the first time Tony has claimed to have caught a ghostly apparition on film.īack in 2016, he made headlines after apparently capturing the outline of a man skulking along a corridor and moving through a wall on camera at Bodmin Jail in Cornwall. "Afterwards, I felt completely drained for the next few days.
"Then I felt a whooshing sound when the spirit went past and I could feel it go straight through me," he said. Tony had taken an infrared camera with him and captured the episode on film. I started to retreat, running back down the tunnel - managing somehow to turn around while I was still filming."
"Then, suddenly, at the end of the tunnel, I saw a mass of fog shooting down towards me. In reply I repeatedly heard, 'Get out, leave!' I heard both a man's and a woman's voice. "This is often what I call out to get a response from the spirits. Tony, from Lyndhurst, said: "I called out to the ghosts, 'Anyone need help? Are you lost? Are you trapped? Why are you so angry?' READ MORE: Paultons Park Christmas tickets on sale but much-loved favourite missing There, looking for paranormal activity, he said he ventured into the coal tunnels beneath the building, aiming to confront the spirits alone. Personal trainer Tony Ferguson, 36, visited Fort Widley, near Portsmouth - a reputedly haunted building used in both world wars - with his financier wife Beverley, 46, and a group of ghost enthusiasts on October 16. A ghost hunter described his atrocious "paranormal hangover" caused by an angry "spectre whooshing" through him after telling him to "get out" and chasing him down the corridor of a Victorian fort, two weeks before Halloween.