GHOSTBUSTING duo Caroline Roffey and Jayne Lawson have taken on a challenge that made grown men tremble with fear.

The fearless Citizen reporter and her sidekick dared to spend a night in the cellar of the Railway Inn in Kirkham, scene of some peculiar goings-on.

Tales of a white lady wandering the premises caught the young women's imaginations and they decided to venture into the murky 150-year-old cellar.

Regular drinkers at the Railway were amazed.

One by one locals approached to offer words of warning, with strong-looking men sheepishly commenting: "You wouldn't catch me going down there at night."

Burly bar manager Gavin Baxter said: "There is definitely something strange about that cellar. I can feel something is there. Have another drink."

Jayne, 24, of Heyhouses Lane in St Annes, said: "Every sound made us panic. We were ready to run if anything scary happened, but always had a camera on hand to capture the ghost on film."

With dripping noises, lights flashing intermittently and a blood-curdling screaming noise at dawn (which turned out to be a cockerel), it wasn't an experience for the faint-hearted.

Jayne said: "At one point, Caroline's face went deathly white as she stared at something behind me.

"Frantically, I demanded to know what it was. 'It's a spider,' she gabbled."

Now a Fleetwood ghosthunter is on the trail of the Railway Inn happenings.

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