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UK PSYCHICS REPORT - 1 August 2008 |
 "Evil spirits" have forced a Nottinghamshire millionaire businessman to abandon his £53m mansion less than a year after he moved into it. Anwar Rashid bought Clifton Hall for £3.6m just a year ago, but he has now handed the historic house back to the bank, citing "evil spirits" for his decision. Mr. Rashid claims that throughout the eight months he and his family lived at the 17th. century mansion they were haunted by ghostly figures and found unexplained blood stains on bedclothes. Mr. Rashid and his wife Nabila, 25, moved into Clifton Hall - which dates back to the Norman conquest and is recorded in the Doomsday book - with their daughters, aged seven, five and three, and their 18-month-old son. Mr Rashid said: "I fell for its beauty, but behind the facade it is haunted. The ghosts didn't want us to be there." He said the paranormal phenomena - which allegedly ranged from unexplained voices to ghostly presences taking the forms of their children - began on the day they moved in. In an effort to exorcise the spirits from the mansion, Mr Rashid called in the Ashfield Paranormal Investigation Network, based in nearby Sutton-in-Ashfield. The team reported encountering a range of paranormal phenomena in the ancient building, but were unable to get rid of its unwelcome spectral guests. Lee Roberts, team leader of the network and a serving police officer, said: "Clifton Hall is the only place where I've ever really been scared. It's just got a really eerie feeling about it." Mr Rashid said the last straw was "when we found red blood spots on the baby's quilt, that was the day my wife said she'd had enough. We didn't even stay that night." He added: "When people used to tell me about ghosts, I would never believe them and would say 'whatever'. "But I would have to tell any new owner that it was haunted having experienced it for myself." Mr. Rashid's claims were backed up by Darren Brookes, whose security firm previously guarded the mansion for a number of years before Mr. Rashid and his family moved in. He said some of his staff "refused point-blank" to work there, and that several of them had reported sightings such as a monk walking through the grounds, a woman in the graveyard falling over, and chairs moving in one of the rooms. Mr Brookes, of Sovereign Security UK, said: "I've often put officers who know absolutely nothing about the house in there - and after a night on duty they have quit."
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