Thanks to the Paranormal Database, a website run by Darren Mann, it has found them.

Darren takes stories of the supernatural from across the centuries and shares them with the people of the UK.

If the website is to be believed, a lot of these stories come from our borough – and in particular from its pubs.

Here are some highlights:

Altrincham – The Victoria

The pub on Stamford Street is no longer open, but when it was there were stories of beer and wine glasses thrown off the shelves by an invisible presence.

Altrincham – Orange Tree

Around the corner from Stamford Street, The Orange Tree on the Old Market Place is home to several spectres.

The ghost of a monk has been heard chanting in the basement, while a woman haunts one of the rooms upstairs.

Hale – The Railway

The shadow of an old landlady wanders the corridors of the pub on Ashley Road and moves barrels in the basement.

Sale – Eyebrow Cottage

Aside from Trafford's pubs, the former farmhouse on Cross Street – one of Sale's oldest buildings – is also haunted.

When it was a kitchen showroom, staff heard footsteps in empty rooms, items moving themselves and doors and drawers opening and closing on their own.

Sale – Private Residence

Back in the 1990s, an unfortunate couple at a house in Brooklands were beset by poltergeists, which moved kitchenware and switched the lights on and off.