A HAUNTED Mold shop opened its doors to paranormal investigators and mediums.

The Party Shop, which is known to be a hive of paranormal activity, was visited by Paul Rowland, a paranormal investigator, and Paula Roscoe, a writer and medium, which includes communicating with the dead, often via ouija boards.

Their main shop window was also decorated by artist Jane Hopwood, as the shop decided to get in the mood early with a seasonal Halloween display.

Mr Rowland recorded a paranormal response from what sounded like a young girl saying ‘Sarah’, which is what the staff have named the spirit they believe roams the shop.

Katy Duplock, 42, owns the shop and has come across a whole host of the apparent unexplainable, such as a mysterious mist in the cellar which would not vanish, cries, bangs and shrieks.

She said: "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.’’

“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 now.”

Paula Roscoe visited The Party Shop as it is one chapter in her book‘Thirteen hauntings’, where she documents 13 supposedly haunted UK locations.

Both Mr Rowland and Mrs Roscoe purport to have experienced considerable paranormal activity in the shop, which has been the scene of a visit from hit television show ‘Most Haunted’.

Paranormal activity is thought to be particularly prevalent in the shop’s upstairs storage room, where both Mr Rowland and Mrs Roscoe felt the strongest spirit presence.