Is this a haunted house?
THE FIRST rule of ghost-hunting: never go alone.
Having company means you will have witnesses to corroborate your story - at least that's what I told my passengers as I persuaded them to join me on the coldest night of the year to investigate a phenomenon that has gripped the community of East Tyrone.
It's hard to feel spooked when stuck in a traffic jam in the middle of nowhere but for every night of the last six weeks that's what has been happening to convoys of ghost-hunters in Coalisland.
Queues of motorists have been shining their headlights into a lonely hollow of the Mullaghmoyle Road in the hope of raising spirits from the dead.
An apparition resembling an elderly woman dressed in a white cape has been seen at night by countless visitors. One local resident claims to have spotted the vision twenty times.
Accompanied by my paranormal pioneers I wanted to find out was ghost-hunting really so simple that it could be done from the comfort of a car by flicking a headlight beam?
On board we had sophisticated audio and visual equipment to capture the sights and sounds of the explained - a home camcorder and a trio of mobile phones raised to the windscreen in readiness.
The ghost summoning relay was already in full swing when we got there shortly after 7pm, with droves of cars either parked or turning to make their way past the spot where the apparition has been sighted. A string of headlights stretched along the road into the thick darkness of the East Tyrone countryside.
We drove up and down the road several times taking our turn with the other cars which appeared to be driven by groups of young people, many of them female.
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