Yours, Siobhan

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I don’t really believe in ghosts – unlike nlikelike the one in three people who say spooks exist – but I am one of the 20% who think they have seen one recently. Or rather heard one.

Now it’s fair to say quite a lot of mummy juice had been taken the weekend I went away with my bestie Ali to an old B&B in Devon back in the summer.

But every time I went into my bathroom in my room, there was a knock on the door. I called out several times, but there was no answer. Thing is, Ali was in her own bedroom and I was alone.

Or was I?

It was persistent knocking as well, which made me think perhaps it had been a bailiff in a past life.

The research into our paranormal beliefs by Amazon Prime Video appears spookily just as it screens Nick Frost and Simon Pegg’s new ghost-hunting comedy series, Truth Seekers, tomorrow night.

But it also reveals we’re a nation of fruitcakes – with over a quarter (27%) believing life on other planets exists and one in six young adults (16%) claiming to have cast a spell on an ex-lover.

But my personal favourite is the one in eight who believe children’s toys are the household item most likely to be “possessed”.

Which is just silly because everyone knows that fridges are more likely to be haunted – otherwise how do you explain the disappearing wine in the bottle when you swore you only had one glass the night before?

Email me at siobhan.mcnally@mirror.co.uk or write to Community Corner, PO Box 791, Winchester SO23 3RP.