Who\'s spooking who?
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Forget creaky old houses and eerie graveyards, today\'s spooks prefer classier venues for their paranormal pranks. A host of celebs claim to be prey to paranormal forces, so take your place on our ghost train through Tinseltown and take a look at Hollywood\'s most haunted – if you dare!
Kate Hudson
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Haunted by: The faceless woman
\'I do believe in ghosts,\' says Hudson. \'I\'ve seen ghosts plenty of times. I\'ve seen a ghost of a woman with no face and that was really creepy. Another time my grandmother came to me and I woke up and felt amazing that she was around me. I think there are people who are more susceptible than others to seeing or experiencing those kinds of things.\'
Kate Winslet
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Haunted by: The ghost of Camelot
When Winslet splashed out on a secret hideaway on the secluded west coast of England she had no idea it came with it\'s own ghostly host. The house once belonged to a worker at nearby Camelot Castle Hotel, and some believe it is haunted by its old owner, who died about 70 years ago. The ghost has been seen by residents of the town walking from the house to the hotel, as if on his way to work
Reese Witherspoon
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Haunted by: Her grandparents
There\'s no telling when and where Witherspoon\'s late grandparents might materialise for a family reunion from the other side. \'I had grandparents who I was really close with and sometimes I think I see them,\' says the \'Legally Blonde\' star. \'I saw them once when I was giving birth to my son. My grandparents were definitely there with me. That was nice.\'
David & Victoria Beckham
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Haunted by: A horseman
It\'s only when the Beckhams return home from Madrid that they encounter the spirit of Beckingham Palace. The luxury Hertfordshire pad is said to be haunted by a ghostly horseman who roams the grounds of the property on his spooky steed. Locals say the ghost is that of Sir Jocelyn Joyce, a lively eccentric who on his death 400 years ago was denied his last wish to be buried in the village churchyard by the local clergy
Renée Zellweger
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Haunted by: Lillian
Renée had no choice but to call the Ghostbusters when her luxurious new home in the Hamptons was found to contain a previous resident from the \'other side\'. A psychic expert told Renée that a ghost named Lillian had been living there for years. John Mascheroni, a former owner of the house, says of the ghost: \'She loved to play tricks. One night when I was lying in bed it felt like there was a large block of ice next to me.\'
Keanu Reeves
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Keanu Reeves
Haunted by: A white suit
\'The Matrix\' star Keanu was just a child when he saw a ghost that took the form of a white double-breasted suit come into his room one night. He wasn\'t imagining it; his nanny saw the phantom, too. \'I was living in New Jersey when I saw and felt this ghost. I remember just staring at this suit - which had no body or legs in it - as it came into the room before disappearing. It was a double-breasted suit in white, and I looked at my nanny who was just as shocked as me. I still see the figure in my dreams and nightmares\'
Nicolas Cage
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Haunted by: A hairdo
Nic is a hard man on screen but he turned into a gibbering wreck when he ran into a ghost at his uncle Francis Ford Coppola\'s home. \'I was living in the attic, and there were bats there between the walls - you could hear the scratching. One night I was not quite asleep when the door in front of my bed opened and there was this pitch-black silhouette of a woman with big hair. I thought it was my aunt coming to say good night. So I said, \'Good night,\' and it didn\'t say anything. Then it moved towards me and my body froze and I let out this bloodcurdling scream and threw my pillow at it. Then it disappeared\'
Tobey Maguire
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Haunted by: The phantom flatmate
Friends of \'Spider-Man\' star Tobey have nicknamed him Spooky Man because of his fascination with the occult. He hosts séances at his Beverly Hills home, which he thinks is haunted. \'There\'s definitely someone there with me,\' he says. \'But it doesn\'t scare me. It\'s nice to have the company!\'
Matthew McConaughey
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Haunted by: Madame Blue
Matt says he freaked out the first time he saw the ghost of an old woman whom he calls Madame Blue. \'When I first moved in there I had a tent and I put it up on the floor of the upstairs bedroom with my sleeping bag and my dog,\' he says. \'That\'s when I first saw Madame Blue. The first night I\'m hearing noises, I\'m hearing bass sounds, wood moving and coyotes, but then I hear this sound like a dime dropping from 10 feet off the ground onto a glass table. I popped up out of the tent and I\'m running around buck naked. I go downstairs and there\'s nothing there. I now know it was her because I have seen her since. She has no qualms with me - we get along just fine. She\'s a cool ghost. Maybe me being nude all the time is why we get along!\'
Eddie Murphy
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Haunted by The trailer-park terror
Eddie\'s spooky tale is nothing to do with dating Scary Spice Mel Brown; it\'s even more bizarre. Eddie was filming comedy movie \'The Haunted Mansion\' when he was suddenly jerked awake in his trailer by the shriek of a woman in distress. Terrified, Eddie leapt up, but no one was there. Over the next few days, the \'Beverly Hills Cop\' star angrily insisted to sceptical producers that his trailer was haunted. Doors would swing open suddenly - then slam shut. Items moved mysteriously and even disappeared. Then, one night, after a late shoot, Eddie walked into his dressing room and a ghostly, glowering female sat at his table, staring at him! He flatly refused to go back into it so first thing next morning, producers parked a brand-new one in its place
Claudia Schiffer
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Haunted by: A nun
Claudia was forced to call in an exorcist to rid her country mansion of an unwelcome resident. The German supermodel was so concerned that she hired the services of real-life ghostbuster Elizabeth Bridgeman. It seems Claudia wasn\'t keen on sharing her posh Suffolk pad with a spook, said to be of a young nun called Penelope. The ghost is believed to have been a member of the Rockwood family who built Coldham Hall in Stanningfield, Suffolk, back in 1575. New mum Claudia, who is married to \'Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels\' producer Matthew Vaughn, is said to be \'much more comfortable\' at the place since Bridgeman\'s visit last year.
Neve Campbell
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Haunted by: A murdered woman
She\'s been in more than her share of paranormal-themed movies (\'The Craft\', \'Scream\'), but she\'s had real-life encounters too. \'Someone was murdered in my house six years ago, before I bought it,\' she says. \'I had friends round and I left them in the living room to go in the kitchen and they both thought I had just walked back in again. But I hadn\'t, so what they saw was the women who was murdered. The previous owner had an exorcist come in, but I don\'t think it worked.\'
Hugh Grant
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Haunted by: The screamer
\'Love Actually\' star Hugh Grant says he and friends have heard the wailing and screaming of some tormented spirit in his Los Angeles home. He even speculates it might be the ghost of former resident, screen legend Bette Davis
Richard Dreyfuss
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Haunted by: A little girl
\'Jaws\' star Dreyfuss\' encounter with a spook helped him turn his back on drug abuse early in his career. Dreyfuss admits he still quakes when he thinks about the eerie spectre that helped him quit cocaine. \'I had a car crash in the late 1970s, when I was really screwed up, and I started seeing these ghostly visions of a little girl every night,\' he says. \'I couldn\'t shake this image. Every day it became clearer and I didn\'t know who the hell she was. I had no kids, I was a bachelor. Then I realised that kid was either the child I didn\'t kill the night I smashed up my car, or it was the daughter that I didn\'t have yet. I immediately sobered up.\'
Dave Grohl
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Haunted by: A native American woman
Foo Fighter Grohl also had a terrifying experience at the hands of a ghost - but he feels he brought it on himself by dabbling with the spirits. He discovered his house in Seattle, Washington, is haunted by the ghost of a native American woman, who murdered her baby more than a century ago, after holding a seance. It was his ex-wife Jennifer\'s idea to make contact with the spirit world through a Ouija board after the couple had witnessed some strange goings-on in their home. \'Jennifer asked if there were any spirits in the house,\' Grohl says. The glass on the Ouija board spelled out, \'Y-E-S\'. I was just looking at Jennifer and she wasn\'t moving at all. The glass was travelling without her pushing it. \'Jennifer then asked, \'What happened here?\' The glass spelled out, \'M-U-R-D-E-R-E-D\'. I asked who was murdered and got the reply \'M-Y-B-A-B-Y\'
Sting
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Haunted by: The mobile mover
Rocker and actor Sting and his wife Trudie have seen ghosts in their home in north London. \'I was absolutely terrified,\' he says. \'I now believe those things are out there, but I have no explanation for them. Ever since I moved there, people said things happened - they were lying in bed and people started talking to them, or things went missing. I was very sceptical until the night after my daughter Mickey was born. She was disturbed and I went to see her. Her room is full of mobiles and they were going berserk. I thought a window must be open, but they were all shut\'
Jordan
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Haunted by: A mad monk
Busty glamour model Jordan and husband Peter Andre believe their current house is haunted. But it\'s not the first time Jordan has succumbed to a spook. While living in a sleepy country village near her home town of Brighton in East Sussex, Jordan claims she was regularly pestered by a ghostly mad monk. \'Sometimes we\'d hear footsteps upstairs but there was nobody there,\' she says. \'I had water coming through the light fittings and the telly would go off for no reason. There was a lot of weird stuff like that\'
