James on the ghost trail at haunted hotel

A YOUNG producer hopes to make a real-life horror film at a supposedly haunted hotel.

Seventeen-year-old James Pembridge has enlisted the sixth sense of a local medium to entice any ghosts out of the woodwork.

The Cirencester College student, from Freshbrook,was due to conduct the ghost hunt at the Bull Hotel, in Fairford, where spirits are rumoured to walk through walls.

Medium Toni Hunt was planning to engage the spirits, while film student James kept the camera rolling.

Paranormal investigators also aimed to check out the territory for signs from the other world.

The group, called Haunted, was planning to use night vision cameras and ghost sensory equipment to capture any paranormal activity.

The spooky action was expected to kick off after 9pm when the medium arrived to awaken any ghosts.

The team has chased spirits before, in a Victorian mansion in Gloucestershire and a Cornish cottage.

But James said Haunted will be the first to examine the Bull Hotel.

"One of the crew members, Jennifer Jaques, says every time she walked past the Bull, she felt a strange energy from there," he said.

He decided to investigate further and spoke to staff, who told of moving beer barrels, strange figures emerging from walls and randomly smashing glasses.

He had high hopes of encountering the hotel's virtual residents.

Speaking before the event, he said: "We are hoping for some poltergeist activity. We'll stay together and go between each room during the night, starting off in the cellar."

"We don't know what will happen, it could all kick off - I'm excited.

"I'm not a full believer yet as I am a little sceptical."

James says Haunted encountered unfriendly ghosts last month in the gothic Woodchester Mansion, near Stroud.

"We were down in a cellar and it was pitch black. The medium told us there was a spirit behind us and we saw a figure in the door," he said.

"The medium told us the spirit wanted to attack us, which is the only time I've been scared."

James became interested in the paranormal after watching television programme Most Haunted.

He plans to collate all the footage from ghostbusting missions and send it to ITV and other programme-makers.