A ghost hunter's new book lifts the lid on some of Teesside's spookiest spots - including one place even he doesn't want to revisit. Steve Watson has spent the past 14 years taking fellow spook fans on ghost hunts across the North-east. Now he's written his fifth book on the topic - and this one focuses on Teesside.
Paranormal Middlesbrough and Teesside takes the reader into the world of ghosts and spirits in the town and surrounding area. Full of tales of haunted places, supernatural happenings and weird phenomena, it's designed to delight the ghost hunters - and fascinate and intrigue everybody who knows the area. But Steve, from Newcastle, admits there's one spot he's in no rush to go back to.
He said: "There's a deserted village called Embleton, between Wynyard and Sedgefield , and even I was spooked by it. "It has a ruined church and some old foundations of houses. I went there once but I probably won't go back.
I went at dusk and heard voices and saw shadows moving. It's a very, very strange place." Steve's first book, The Chronicles of a Ghost Hunter, detailed his many ghost hunts around the region.
Subsequent books have focused on the creepy goings-on in Newcastle, Sunderland and Cumbria - and now it's Teesside's turn. He said: "I've been interested in this sort of thing since I was a kid. Me and my wife Angela used to go on ghost hunts and because we liked them, we set up GHOSTnortheast.
"It started out as a hobby we thought would last a few months but then friends a.