Spooked actress reveals her very own fright night while

The spooky exploits of TV ghost- hunters had never thrilled or chilled Lorraine Mcintosh.

The actress had never even watched one of the haunted house shows until researching a new role ... and is possibly now too afraid to watch another.

After being terrified by the on- screen hauntings, her TV suddenly fell from its stand and shattered.

She said: “I thought it was going to be funny and I actually found myself scared.”

The former River City favourite is one of the stars of BBC Scotland’s new horror/ comedy Long Night At Blackstone, written by Still Game’s Greg Hemphill.

Lorraine plays Faye Bowers, the host of a phoney paranormal TV show who is trapped with her crew in a dilapidated Scots manor house.

Having never watched ghost- hunt programmes before, she decided to catch up with some viewing of Yvette Fielding’s Most Haunted.

Lorraine said: “These programmes have always passed me by, but I decided I had to watch and see what I was going to be doing.

“I settled down one day in the living room, where I wouldn’t normally sit.

“The next thing was my telly fell off its stand and smashed on my coffee table.

“The way it was angled it had obviously been falling bit by bit in a tiny way and it toppled just as I was watching this programme about ghosts.

“I had to go and buy a new TV.”

The b i z a r re m i s h a p w o u l d have unnerved many and Lorraine says that, while she’s not an avid believer, she’s not a rabid sceptic either.

“I would never think that we understood the paranormal world because we just don’t know,” said mum-of-three Lorraine.

“I’ve never pursued it, but I’d never say it’s all a load of rubbish. Some of these TV programmes probably are, but I think there are definitely things out there that we don’t understand.”

Greg juggled writing Still Game with penning Long Night At Blackstone. He also directs, his second time behind the cameras after West Skerra Light, which was screened at Halloween in 2016.

It reunites the same cast including John Gordon Sinclair, John Michie and Greg’s wife Julie Wilson Nimmo.

Lorraine, 53, said: “West Skerra Light was a joy to film and when Greg said he was going to write another one we all wanted to be in it.

“He was as good as his word and very rarely do you get a job that’s as much fun as this. Greg picked people you’re going to get on with and have a laugh with.

“And working with John Gordon Sinclair was such a brilliant honour. He’s a lovely human being but he’s also just a Scottish legend.

“He’s a brilliant actor who has won Olivier Awards on the London stage – and who wasn’t a fan of Gregory’s Girl?”

Lorraine, like Greg, is a huge horror movie aficionado with The Shining, Rosemary’s Baby and The Blair Witch Project among her all- time favourites. Family viewing, though, isn’t an option as her husband, fellow Deacon Blue member