A GHOST said to be haunting a Halifax nightspot has been stalking the building's corridors since the 1960s, former workers have claimed.
Staff at Liquid, Ward's End, Halifax, told the Courier last week that they had seen a spirit walking through walls upstairs atthe venue.
Click here for last week's storyNow Moira Gurteen and Anne Wells, who worked in the building when it was a bingo hall 40 years ago, have claimed the phantom was well known among staff even then.
They said it would sit on the balcony watching gamers.
The pair say the ghost is a dead-ringer for a projectionist who died in a fire there on April 8, 1948, when the venue was a cinema.
Raymond Farrar was just 25 when he was burned alive while The Ghost Of Frankenstein played on the big screen.
Mrs Wells, 63, now of Middles-brough, said: "I've never seen Raymond before but when I saw his picture in the Courier it was like a lightning bolt. I just know he's the ghost.
"It's his hair. It's exactly the same style as the ghost had."
The great grandma, who worked at the hall between 1964 and 1966, added staff became so fascinated they organised a ghost hunt to flush the spirit out.
She said: "The upstairs wasn't open then and it was largely abandoned so we thought, once and for all, let's see what's going on.
"But there was ever such a large bang while we were exploring. You've never seen people run so fast!"
Mrs Gurteen, 68, of Sunny Bank Road, Greetland, said: "It was well known among staff that there was a ghost there but you didn't say anything except to each other. You didn't want to be ridiculed."
News that he was not the first to see the ghost came as reassurance to current Liquid manager Neill Maguire. He said: "It's nice to have it confirmed I'm not losing my marbles."
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