This One Is Going To Haunt Me
I got a call from the Â鶹Éç Press Office today saying that the want to know more about the ghost I've been writing about in this diary. The story had also been picked up by yesterday, but I'd missed that because, as ever, the Ecosse section hadn't been inserted in the copy I picked up from the newsagent.
I call Innes Smith (psychical investigator) and pop in on Janie Murphy (radio producer and ghost eyewitness) to make sure they're ok with me talking to journalists about this. Later I take a call from Catriona Stewart, a reporter for the Daily Mail based in Glasgow. I tell her the whole story and, as I do so, I realise it doesn't really amount to much. A few spooky moments, various tales about strange happenings in basements, one sighting of a woman in a long dress. So it will be interesting to see if the Daily Mail actually run anything.
Mind you, I'm starting to spook myself with this stuff. I was down in the basement this morning, speaking to Annie Wood who runs our Training Project. Her office is at the end of a long corridor which once housed the teaching rooms when this was a medical college. Annie sits behind the kind of squeaky, creaky door that you associate with old Hammer horror films. I half expected to see a secret laboratory with coloured liquids bubbling away in glass jars. I didn't, of course, but the next time I go down there I'm going armed with some WD40. And I'm not afraid to use it.
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