BELIEVE it or not...paranormal investigators have caught a ghost on film at the offices of the Abergavenny Chronicle.

Nearly 30 spook hunters spent the night in the Tindle House premises in Nevill Street where the sensational happenings were not discovered until the night-time camera footage was scrutinised days later.

Even then it was thought the brief sequence of a man descending the stairs towards the newsroom from the middle attic was a rogue member of the team turning up late for a briefing in the boardroom before the ghost-monitoring began in earnest.

But subsequent checks of people's movements - including exhaustive scanning of all six cameras in place around the building - have revealed that everyone was accounted for at the time the spirit strayed into the land of the living.

Leanne Pole, of the Cwmbran-based Beyond the Grave paranormal investigation company, declared, "It's the best footage of an apparition we have ever had in the eight years we've been doing this."

She added, "We've had shadows and shapes before - but nothing like this. It is definitely a male apparition."

The haunting clip has since been posted on her Facebook page - and it is expected to be uploaded on YouTube in the near future for others to see and judge.

But Leanne, a police officer based in Newport, is convinced the star of the show is not of this world.

"We are happy that everyone is accounted for at the time of the appearance which was just after 10pm on June 6. We try to establish the facts because we don't want to make idiots of ourselves.

"The reaction from people has been one of amazement - although one insists it must be a member of the team on the night.

"But the cameras and our checks were thorough. We could get the film verified - but we don't need to wait six months for people to tell us what we can see."

She is a big fan of the Chronicle offices which her company has used several times for paranormal probes.

'I like Tindle House. It's a lovely building with lots of history," said Leanne.

Among those party to the spritely goings-on was Chronicle editor Liz Davies who said, "The Chronicle office has a long history of strange happenings and I must admit that during the nights I've spent with Leanne and her team during their investigations here I have seen a few things that I'm at a loss to explain but this is certainly the strangest...unless of course you count having a volume of Chronicles from the 1940s thrown at me!"

"I'm a complete sceptic but even I have to say that this piece of film is very strange. It certainly looks like a man walking down the stairs."