The television show Most Haunted has last week investigated the reputedly haunted Eric Milner B Building, The Lemon Press has learned. The TV show, presented by Yvette Fielding, features a team of ghost hunters who investigate reports of paranormal activity at supposedly haunted locations throughout the country. Most Haunted was said to have been attracted to the abandoned building on Campus West after learning of stories from third year students, who claim to have regularly heard drawers opening and closing and water running in the unoccupied Room 214 whilst they were living in the building as first years.

The Most Haunted team and TV crew rocked up to Campus West on a dark and stormy night last week, where they parked in the James College car park before making their way over to the condemned accommodation block. Shortly after arriving at the Eric Milner B Building, the team lit a circle of candles on the floor inside and began a seance in an attempt to communicate with any restless spirits trapped within the confines of the building’s asbestos filled walls. Suddenly a deep voice was heard booming “No candles in student accommodation!” from an office formerly owned by the University’s Accommodation Services, but upon investigation no one was found. The team reconvened along the corridor to a former kitchen, where not long after entering the room, Yvette Fielding began screaming about “ectoplasm everywhere” and fell to the floor, writhing around yelling “It has seized me! It has smothered me in its goo!” However, this turned out to be nothing more than water from the lake’s fountain blowing onto her through an open window.

After spending an hour trying to make a Ouija board out of a dismantled wardrobe and a dried out sharpie, they turned their attention to a noise coming from the floor above. The team quickly climbed up the stairs and flung open the door to the first floor corridor, where they were met with the terrifying sight of the giant floating head of a bald young man, grinning menacingly. The team fled the block and declared their investigation over. Not fancying their chances with the CircuitPlus laundry machines, they drove straight back home to throw their underwear straight in the wash, whilst still trying to process just who or what they had encountered.

The Lemon Press is most grateful to the Most Haunted team for releasing a photo of the hairless horror seen on the corridor for inclusion with this article. We would like you, the reader, to come to your own conclusions regarding the authenticity of this image and whose ghost it may feature, but all of us on the TLP Committee believe it to be the restless soul of our former editor, once a resident of Eric Milner B Block, who tragically died of deep disappointment following this year’s Student Publication Awards. 

Originally published in Issue 60