Ghosts Alive!

Well, actually, by definition, ghosts are dead. But nonetheless, they are big business in the city of Norwich, England. The city, by all reports, is positively knee deep in the supernatural manifestations. They claim there is even an entire army of ghosts wandering about the place.

NORWICH, England, September 20 (Reuters Life!) - They say that on a January night you can still hear the hooves of Oliver Cromwell's slaughtered cavalry echoing under the cobbles of Tombland — the most haunted part of the ancient east English city of Norwich.

And they are not the only ones who stalk the streets of this Fenland city 100 miles north east of London — there are ghostly monks, strangled girls, soldiers, rebels and even a girl who choked to death eating her own parents to stay alive.

For most people who take part in Dave Chisnell's twice-weekly ghost tours of the city not far from where 700,000-year-old evidence of human habitation was discovered last year, it is pure theatre.

But for long-time Norwich resident Lee Goldin, 63, this is no joke.

"I have seen two ghosts in my life. I used to live in a haunted house in this city. I had to steel myself to come along tonight. I want to see one more. I want to be sure I am not imagining things," she told Reuters on a muggy September night tour.

Her ghost tour addict son Carl Paston, 43, is equally adamant. He has seen eight ghosts in his life — including the executed second wife of King Henry 8 and mother of Gloriana, Elizabeth I — Anne Boleyn.

They are among some 50 people following caped tour leader Chisnell as he leads his group from Norwich's oldest pub — the 750-year-old Adam and Eve — on a winding route through the back streets of the city whose first Cathedral dates back to the Norman conquest in 1066.

We here at at Blue Crab Boulevard are justifiably famous for our investigative skills and all-around paranormality (which some people keep mispronouncing as 'abnormality'. Language challenged, we presume.). So we unleashed the accomplished paranormal sleuths from Professor Gaius' Paranormality Research Academy and Coffee Shop® once again and managed to get photographic evidence that the Adam and Eve pub in Norwich is itself haunted! We are just that good.