'Ghost' of butler opens doors of old mansion

Ghost hunters believe they have captured the moment the spirit of a butler opens and closes a wine cellar door in a haunted 16th century hall on command.

Chris Guyers was carrying out an investigation with two guests at Croxteth Hall in Liverpool when he asked the spirit to shut the door of the wine cellar.

In the video, the astonished spirit investigators can be heard saying 'hello' after the door appears to open on its own.

Chris then says 'shut the door for us, we want to be left in peace' before the door spookily appears to shut on its own.

Footage then shows the door opening again on its own when they ask.

The 31-year-old thinks the spirit could have been a butler or servant serving the Molyneux family who lived at the haunted Hall from the 16th century until the 1970s.

Chris said they have eliminated the possibility it could have been caused by a draft because there are no windows nearby and the cellar is right in the centre of the hall.

"I got the feeling it could have been a servant or a butler coming to the wine cellar and because it responded to commands to get it to leave,” he said.

He said the trio also had an EMF hunter - a known ghost hunting tool - which started to make a beeping sound between the door closing and opening again.

"We have been going to Croxteth Hall since 2016 and the last couple of times we have picked things up,” Chris said.

"We seem to have built up the right energy.

"I didn't feel scared. It's hard to describe the feeling but it is more a curiosity about what is on the other side.

"I am planning to go back to Croxteth Hall at the end of November and try to recreate the same scenario."

The hall was originally built in 1575 and is known as a ghost hunting hot spot.

It hit headlines in 2009 when CCTV footage appeared to show a spirit emerge from bushes, move slowly along a path and then disappear.

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