 Get all the biggest showbiz news straight to your inbox. Sign up for the free Mirror Showbiz newsletter. This experience led to her interest in the spirit world – and Yvette is now one of the most respected figures in the paranormal community. For decades she toured the country in search of Britain's most haunted hotspots, scaring the pants off viewers who looked on from the safety of their sofas. Offscreen, she even lives in a house that is haunted with her Most Haunted producer husband Karl Beattie. Their period property in Cheshire is home to not one, but four ghosts – plus a mummified cat that was discovered under the bathtub, which they once moved but put back when 'all hell broke loose'. Yvette outside her Cheshire home, which she says is haunted ( ReachPLC/Andrew Price) Other guests include the spirit of a cavalier called Charles Deacon, who was murdered by the Roundheads during the English Civil War. Two small children called Master Benjamin and Elizabeth also haunt the house, as does Yvette's late father, Alan, who died from a heart attack in 2008. The house has its creepy moments – chairs have been stacked on her kitchen table, and her mum won't stay o){kind=link}
Yvette Fielding, 54, has been ghost hunting for decades – but she revealed she didn’t have her first paranormal experience until she was in her late twenties
Yvette Fielding has revealed the terrifying moment she first saw a ghost.
The 54-year-old Most Haunted star said her first paranormal experience didn’t happen until she was in her late twenties.
She woke up at her mum’s house to see a young man in a military uniform chopped in half from the waist down.
“In the Second World War, the nearby railway line was used to transport troops. One lad didn’t want to fight, so he threw himself off the train and got cut in half â that’s the man I saw at the foot of the bed,” Yvette told New magazine.