STAFF at a town centre pub have reported ghostly goings on -- and claim the vodka and the brandy are not the only spirits in the bar.

Eerie-figures have been seen drifting across the eating areas and a the shadowy figure of a man has been spied in the kitchen. Not to mention things going bump in the middle of the night.

Staff at the Postal Order, in Darwen Street, Blackburn, are so convinced by the apparent apparitions that they are hoping to find out just who they are.

Duty manager Maggie Williams (pictured) was the first to see a ghostly figure nearly 12 months ago when the pub had closed for the evening. "I passed a large mirror and I saw a lady walking around the pub through the reflection," said Maggie, from Darwen.

"I'd say she was in her 50s and was wearing a nightie. I ran out of the pub and swore I would never go back, it was really scary." Maggie did eventually go back and has since experienced cellar doors opening by themselves.

Colleague and fellow bogeyman believer Damion Taylor has also seen a figure, this time a well-to gentleman.

"He looked a London city-type with a suit and tie on and he just came into the kitchen when I was working," said the 24-year-old kitchen and bar assistant.

"He didn't say anything or even notice me and then he went. When I asked the manager who he was he didn't have a clue. Nobody from head office or management were visiting that day, it's a mystery."

Damion said: "The third floor of the pub is just an empty void and we are thinking about having a ghost-watch there one night. We want to ask them who they are and what they want."

Pub manager Sharon Longley said she too has had odd things happening but is a tad more cynical than her staff.

She said: "I would have to see a ghost to believe in them. One night a lamp came on just on its own but I put that down to a dodgy lamp not some ghost."

The JD Wetherspoon's pub opened five years ago and was previously the Post Office.