“He said he’d seen it before, and I believed him. We used to turn the lights off and wait. He said it started as a green glow…” At Aykroyd’s former house in California, which had formerly belonged to Mama Cass from the Mamas and Papas and was the scene of early rehearsals for California Dreaming, he and his wife called in a psychic after a few too many bumps in the night. They were told that the spirit belonged to someone who’d taken an overdose in the living room; he says this was later confirmed by a friend. He believes ghosts are “a reality of life on this planet”. In fact, it was once put to Aykroyd that, to him, Ghostbusters is a documentary; he didn’t entirely deny it. Nonetheless, Aykroyd regretfully says that he has no talent for clairvoyance. “Although,” he says, “I’ve had some very vivid dreams of deceased friends.” So many of his close friends seem to have died, does he fear death?