A SQUAD of ghostbusters will tonight be starting a full paranormal investigation on a historic Hampshire museum.

The Raven’s Wing team, who will be equipped with herbs, potions, pagan artefacts, claim they can sense spirits.

They will also have hitech cameras, tape recorders and specialist ghoul-hunting gear to help their search for things that go bump in the night at Westbury Manor, Fareham.

Many eerie sightings have been reported in the museum with visitors seeing people dressed in Victorian clothes or sensing a ghostly presence.

Museum curator, Tom de Wit, said: “A number of things have been reported over the years, which some people have found alarming and which have not been explained.

“There are so many stories the walls could tell. If such things exist anywhere, then I’d be surprised if there is not something here. But as the last person in the buildings on many dark nights, I hope the team don’t find anything too disturbing.”

Parts of the manor date back more than 600 years. In its time it has been a farmhouse, the quarters of a senior naval officer, a Second World War air raid control centre, the council chambers and private home.

Eight admirals and two prominent solicitors are known to have lived with its walls. It now houses historic artefacts, often steeped in mystery themselves.

Perhaps the most sinister is a Roman curse carved into a stone tablet more than 1,600 years ago.

The author of the message calls upon the Gods to drink the blood of whatever man, woman or children stole their money. Claire Smith, of the Hampshire-based investigation team, said: “We do not creep about in the dark.

“We have the lights on and we use a lot of technical monitoring equipment. In fact, we are quite noisy sometimes as this can attract paranormal activity more than sitting silently.

“We do not think of ourselves as ghost-hunters as such and we do not go in for the dramatics you see on TV – we will be scientifically documenting everything.”

The Daily Echo will follow the ghost experts as they conduct their investigation over the weekend and the museum will be keeping a record of its findings on display.