However, on closer examination most of them have turned out to be unnatural rather than supernatural.
Reports of demented white haired old men and women running cackling down the corridors were dismissed at an early stage as being one or more members of the BBI on their normal daily business.
Similarly, several skeletons found in cupboards were thought to have been recently hidden during confidential meetings from which the public and opposition were excluded.
There were a number of other similar false alarms.
A group of screaming skulls merely turned out to be another BBI management meeting.
Horrible echoing laughter heard pealing around the council chamber was generated at an ad hoc meeting of the opposition councillors, and by a strange contradiction the same reason was given for sounds of terrible crying and wailing heard in the same room.
Sounds of teeth gnashing were thought to emanate from the staff.
Reports of sightings of eerie figures walking through walls proved to be nothing more than senior BBI figures who - as well as being able to walk on water - were simply taking a short cut between floors.
What was at first considered to be an ancient coffin turned out to be a useless empty cabinet.
The best find using state of the art spirit detection apparatus was a couple of half empty bottles left behind by former members of the BBI who have since resigned.
An attempt by a wily BBI member to explain away the borough's mysterious million pound loan by blaming it on poltergeists gained little by way of acceptance.
"Although we did find some very spooky things," said a spokesman for the ghosthunters, "most of them appeared to be councillors from the ruling group. As far as ghosts are concerned, we couldn't possibly comment, but our experiences at West Street definitely show that there is life of some sort after death."
A spokesman for the Boston Bypass Independents, "mouth of the Witham" Ray Knowall, was unavailable for comment -- for once!
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