It’s a raw and painfully cold winter’s night, and if there’s one place you’d rather not be at such an hour, it’s a haunted medieval building. Provan Hall, in Auchinlea Park, Easterhouse, dates from the 15th century and is one of the oldest properties in Glasgow, reputed to have not one, not two, but three ghosts.
Normally, I’d be all for letting sleeping dogs lie but tonight, together with a group of strangers, equipped with torches and layers of warm clothing, I’m here because of an ingenious fundraising venture dreamt up by the South Lanarkshire branch of the National Autistic Society (NAS).
The six-hour-long investigation is being undertaken by researchers from Lanarkshire Paranormal, who have arrived with cameras, recording equipment, TV monitors and EVP recorders. The EVP stands for electronic voice phenomena, which, as one ghost-hunting equipment website explains, “is sound potentially caused by ghosts in order to communicate with us from the beyond”.