STAFF at a pub are used to handling whisky and vodka — but spirits of a different kind are now keeping them busy.

For an apparition of a woman has been appearing after closing time when the pub is empty.

Now regulars at the Unity Brook in Manchester Road, Kearsley, spend their evening supping pints and watching orbs — early manifestations of spirits — on the screen of the pub’s CCTV system.

Now landlady, Mandy Grimshaw, and her spooked staff want help to clear the pub of the ghosts.

Mrs Grimshaw said: “It now seems like we have been in the pub for a long six months. The happenings started a month ago and things have intensified.

“I want whatever is in the pub to go. This is not a publicity stunt because there is a chance we will put off customers. We are all quite scared.

“My manager Steve Porter has seen this lady a few times and is so freaked out about it that he can’t even bring himself to talk about it.”

The first sign of paranormal activity in the 200-year-old pub was picked up when CCTV cameras were installed and two apparitions were picked up on the monitor by Mr Porter, and Mrs Grimshaw’s 19-year-old daughter, Stephanie.

Mrs Grimshaw said: “I had a look and I know what I saw. It was two orbs; two circular objects in the air like I have seen on Most Haunted. But I thought nothing of it.”

Two weeks later, Mr Porter was walking to the cellar area when he saw a lady — around five feet six inches tall, slim, with dark hair dressed in black — make her way through one cellar door into another.

Mrs Grimshaw, aged 42, said: “He went to see who it was and he could feel it was cold. He checked the cellar temperature gauge and saw the dial drop in front of his eyes.”

The woman has appeared every week for the last six weeks. Mrs Grimshaw said: “Steve caught her reflection in the mirror and then, as he was putting glasses away, he looked up and saw her starring at him. She disappeared in front of his eyes. He was so shaken up he dropped the glasses in shock.

“Steve is ex-army and I have no reason to doubt him, especially as he threatened to leave the job unless something was done.”

She only started to take the matter seriously though, when her 17-year-old son, Rhys, had a nightmare about a lady matching the same description, who chased him through the pub.

Mrs Grimshaw said: “He said the dream seemed so real that he felt himself physically push her away. He did not know about Steve’s experience. The nightmare shook him up.”

Things have since got steadily worse, with lights switching themselves on witnessed by her daughter, Zara, aged 11, and toilets flushing when no one is around.

Mrs Grimshaw said: “I don’t know who she is or where she is from, but I want her out.”

Anyone who can help should ring Mrs Grimshaw on 07752 472651