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STOP the press! The Yorkshire Evening Post's Haunted Leeds team is about to go behind the scenes of its own head office on Wellington Street.
In the second episode of our exclusive web-tv series, TV medium Barrie John – of UK Living's Most Haunted fame – leads the team around Yorkshire Post Newspapers and uncovers the frights behind the headlines.
YEP reporter Debbie Leigh is part of the team who dared enter parts of the building that have long put fear into the hearts of many staff.
TO SEE THE FULL EPISODE - WHICH WILL BE ONLINE FROM 9AM FRIDAY MORNING - AND VISIT THE HAUNTED LEEDS WEBSITE CLICK HERE."You work in a place every day but it's amazing how many parts of the building were unfamiliar – and very creepy," said Debbie.
"We went into one of the storage areas called 'the cage' which was very claustrophobic and very scary, especially when Barrie starting picking up on someone who apparently worked there. This place has a lot of history and, I suppose unsurprisingly, has had its fair share of tragedy. Some of the things Barrie picked up and that we saw and heard seemed to date back to before this building was even here."
Debbie and Barrie were joined on the investigation by YEP features writer Grant Woodward, paranormal investigator Lynne Robinson of Kaps Paranormal, and YEP advertising manager Nicola Atkinson.
Barrie said: "The Yorkshire Post Newspapers building was fabulous to carry out this kind of investigation in. It's steeped in activity and there was a real sense of awakening during the night.
"It's somewhere I'd love to go back to as I think we only scratched the surface."
The office block, whose clock tower dominates the Leeds skyline, was built in the 1960s and was an architectural award-winner. But the site has a much longer history than that.
Wealthy Leeds clothier and wool merchant Benjamin Gott built Bean Ing Mills on the site in 1792. He used part of it for all aspects of cloth manufacture and the rest was rented out to small clothiers.
Bean Ings mill was used by various companies until its demolition in the 1960s when YPN took the site, moving from its Albion Street premises.
To watch the latest episode, go to the YEP's specially created website at www.hauntedleeds.co.uk.
Here you can watch the programmes, read Barrie John's exclusive blog, meet the team, get the latest weird world news and upload and view spooky photos and videos.
The full article contains 421 words and appears in EP Leeds First & County newspaper.