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Groped by a ghost! Haunted Museum owner reconstructs encounter for American TV show

Being dead is no excuse for bad manners as one ghost found out when he got a bit too handsy with the owner of Nottingham's Haunted Museum.

"I had a right go," says Marie Wesson, who has reconstructed her ghostly grope for new Travel Channel show World's Most Haunted Places.

Travelling from the States, a nine-strong film crew spent just over 12 hours at the former Mapperley cinema for an episode due to be screened in America on Halloween.

As part of their appearance, Marie, 44, along with husband Steve Wesson, 47, reconstructed four paranormal encounters they've experienced since opening the popular museum last summer.

Owner Marie Wesson pictured inside the mirror room (Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post)

Marie's supernatural contact had literally sent her flying.

While leading a tour group of seven people around the museum last July the UK Ghost Hunt founder says she was groped by a ghost "completely out of the blue".

"He grabbed the front, I just felt a hand down there. I can't remember the exact words I used I just remember I had a right go at him.

"I said 'just because you're dead doesn't mean you can get away with it'".

The ghost was rather put out by Marie's outburst, she says and flung her against a wall in protest.

"I felt this pressure and my feet lift off the floor," says the ghost enthusiast, who has been investigating the paranormal for 10 years.

Owner Marie Wesson pictured in the attic of the Haunted Museum (Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post)

But Marie says the experience hasn't deterred her from pursuing her passion as she loves her job so much. However, reconstructing the ordeal for American TV was more difficult than she first thought.

Bringing in an actor as a stand in for the ghost, Marie had to replicate the incident in front of the cameras.

"I thought it was Aquaman, he looked huge," she says. "I thought, if he throws me at the wall I am going through it.

"So I had to throw myself at the wall. I didn't want him picking me up because I didn't know him."

Also reconstructed for the show was an incident where one member of the team ended up with claw marks on their legs and the appearance of a man sitting twisted in the main auditorium of the museum, where films are shown every Thursday evening.

It's not the first time Nottingham's Haunted Museum has appeared on TV with Freeview channel Pick also visiting the attraction.

Tours of the Haunted Museum run Tuesday to Friday, 11am to 6pm and Sundays 1pm to 6pm, tickets are £7 per person and all children must be accompanied by an adult.

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