France believes in Welsh ghosts

3/8/2007

French television's main news programme, Soir 3, last night (Thursday) devoted three minutes of air time to a house in Mold which is said to be haunted.

Plas Teg in Pontblyddyn, near Mold, is alleged to be haunted by hosts of ghosts, including the notorious Hanging Judge Jeffreys.

Members of the Cheshire Paranormal Society hold regular vigils there and claim seeing several spooks.

Some mediums are said to have fled the 17th century Jacobean mansion because they were scared stiff.

French TV showed ghost hunters checking the "freezing" temperature of the house with thermometers and meditating in silence to receive spirit messages.

No ghost turned up, but French TV's final shot of the place showed a mirror clouding over, which might have been a camera trick ... or else ...