Shop haunted by ghost child says checkout ghoul is 'valuable member of staff'
A fancy dress shop owner has told of how one of her most valuable members of staff is a GHOST who helps find missing items.
Katy Duplock, 39, regularly hears thuds from empty rooms within the store, and has seen a "strange mist" in the air over a spot in the cellar where, according to local legend, human bones believed to belong to a young girl were once discovered.
But Katy believes the spook – who has been named Sarah – is friendly, adding that she is a " valuable member of staff ".
She said: "Whenever we lose something, we ask Sarah to help find it, and minutes later there it is.
"I'm sure she's friendly so it doesn't bother me. She's never hurt anyone before so I don't see why she would now."
Katy, who owns The Party Shop in Mold, Flintshire, only recalls one experience where she felt afraid.
She said: "I was down in the cellar and saw a mist form over where the bones were found.
"I thought I had something in my eye, but I rubbed it and the mist was still there.
"I asked her to go away because it was freaking me out and the mist vanished."
The legend of the haunted shop is well known within in the town, with number of locals claiming to have seen a young girl's face peering out of one of the shop's upstairs windows.
When Katy bought the shop four years ago, its previous owner warned of how the till would ring up when no-one was using it.
Then, she began to experience spooky goings on of her own.
She said: "It didn't put me off. I've always been interested in the paranormal.
"At 9am most days there's a crack in the ceiling. It sounds like someone getting out of bed," she said.
"Often we hear a huge thud somewhere, like someone falling over.
"I always go and have a look upstairs but there's no-one there. We only have two of us on the shop floor so there's no way it could be someone else.
"Customers hear it too and ask us 'What was that?' But I'm used to it."
Katy said the spirit becomes particularly busy once the shop receives its Halloween shipment.
"We had our delivery two weeks ago. We keep it in a room over the shop upstairs," she said.
"Once we get that in there's always lots of banging about. I think she must be scared of the spooky stuff."
Far from being a poltergeist pest, the spirit helps staff locate missing items within the shop.
A fancy dress shop owner has told of how one of her most valuable members of staff is a GHOST who helps find missing items.
Katy Duplock, 39, regularly hears thuds from empty rooms within the store, and has seen a "strange mist" in the air over a spot in the cellar where, according to local legend, human bones believed to belong to a young girl were once discovered.
But Katy believes the spook – who has been named Sarah – is friendly, adding that she is a " valuable member of staff ".
She said: "Whenever we lose something, we ask Sarah to help find it, and minutes later there it is.
"I'm sure she's friendly so it doesn't bother me. She's never hurt anyone before so I don't see why she would now."
Katy, who owns The Party Shop in Mold, Flintshire, only recalls one experience where she felt afraid.
She said: "I was down in the cellar and saw a mist form over where the bones were found.
"I thought I had something in my eye, but I rubbed it and the mist was still there.
"I asked her to go away because it was freaking me out and the mist vanished."
The legend of the haunted shop is well known within in the town, with number of locals claiming to have seen a young girl's face peering out of one of the shop's upstairs windows.
When Katy bought the shop four years ago, its previous owner warned of how the till would ring up when no-one was using it.
Then, she began to experience spooky goings on of her own.
She said: "It didn't put me off. I've always been interested in the paranormal.
"At 9am most days there's a crack in the ceiling. It sounds like someone getting out of bed," she said.
"Often we hear a huge thud somewhere, like someone falling over.
"I always go and have a look upstairs but there's no-one there. We only have two of us on the shop floor so there's no way it could be someone else.
"Customers hear it too and ask us 'What was that?' But I'm used to it."
Katy said the spirit becomes particularly busy once the shop receives its Halloween shipment.
"We had our delivery two weeks ago. We keep it in a room over the shop upstairs," she said.
"Once we get that in there's always lots of banging about. I think she must be scared of the spooky stuff."
Far from being a poltergeist pest, the spirit helps staff locate missing items within the shop.
