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A woman called in ghostbusters - after claiming a pervy poltergeist was stealing her KNICKERS.

Terrified Pauline Hickson has moved house seven times in two years - but claims the saucy spirit has followed her around the country, hiding her knickers and bras.

But now, Pauline, from Hull, East Yorks, has called in a professional ghost-buster - who says he has banished the ghost for good.

Pauline, 58, said: "I thought I was going crazy. I didn't know why it was happening to me, it was like living through hell and I had no one to turn to.

"I'd come home from work and all my things would have been rifled through.

"My underwear was going missing and someone had been in my shower - all the windows would be steamed up and the shower all wet.

"I thought my family were doing it to me. I didn't believe anyone and I started to lose people from my life. I would spend all day just wandering around the streets, trying to stay out of the house."

The spooky happenings started two years ago, after she moved into a bungalow in north Hull.

Within a few weeks of living there, Pauline said she felt a presence she could not explain and strange things would happen while she was out of the house.

Pictures started slipping off the walls, the shower room was being used and there were scratches left up and down the doors, Pauline claimed.

She says she would come in from a day out and be greeted by the mess left behind by the ghosts, who she says would also rifle through her belongings, send the temperature either soaring or plummeting in her home and even leave her a cup and spoon out ready for a hot drink.

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And despite leaving her flat and moving in with friends and family, wherever she went, the spooky happenings continued.

Pauline said: "One day when I was staying with my nephew me and my sister came back from the shops and the kitchen looked like someone had wiped it down with dirt and then freeze-dried it. There were scratches up the walls too.

"I was too frightened to go home - I'd spend most nights in a hotel."

It was the final straw for Pauline, who packed up her belongings and moved to Cambridge - but she was followed and the same spooky pranks started happening again.

Within a few months she returned to Hull, this time to live with her niece, but it was not long before her clothes, including her bras, went missing again.

But now, after a hypno-exorcism, she says she is finally free of the mischievous spirits

.Ghostbuster Steve Kneeshaw put Pauline under hypnosis, which he combined with an exorcism, with instant results.

Steve reported feeling a blast of cold air before seeing a large man and a 14-year-old boy fly past him.

Since then, Pauline has not experienced a hint of paranormal activity in her home.

She suspects the 'ghosts' are associated with an old dressing table she bought before she moved into the bungalow, in which she found a ruby wedding anniversary card and other personal items.