GHOSTS and spirits are not only at large at Halloween - and one group is determined to prove it.

Mysterious spectral legs, ghost dogs and voices from beyond the grave are part of a normal week for the Maidstone-based Southern

Paranormal Investigation Team.

In the last month the group had had hair-raising experiences in both the Maidstone Museum and Bentlif Art Gallery and at The Little Gem

pub in Aylesford.

They plan to spend another night of Seances and Ouija Boards in the area over the Halloween weekend.

Founding members, mother and daughter Corriene Vickers and Louise Lindley, have amassed a collection of digital photos, videos and

sound recordings which hint at a spiritual world.

Mrs. Vickers said: "The Little Gem was our most successful so far. We had glasses coming off shelves, without being broken, while no-

one was in the room, and a tankard on the bar was moved and turned".

"We all picked up a dog which ran across the balcony".

A member of the team also saw a mysterious pair of legs running up the stairs.

Mrs. Vickers said two members of the group were touched by a spirit child during a recent visit to Maidstone Museum, but she cast

doubt on the theory that one of the art gallery's paintings is haunted.

She said: "We didn't feel anything at all from the painting or in that room. But there are definately places in there that have spirit activity.

We sense it as soon as we walk in - The Cloisters being one."

The team believe they successfully contacted five spirits on a Ouija Board during the Maidstone investigation, including one claiming to be

Maidstone-born writer William Hazlitt, who died in 1830.