Ghostly goings-on at a Lincoln fancy dress shop promise to send shivers down customers' spines.

People who pop into Jesters in the lower High Street could meet a few unexpected characters.

Owners Hazel Smith and her son James say they have heard ghostly footsteps, seen a hand appear through a wall and seen the ghosts of two children.

Mr Smith said: "About a year ago, I saw a hand slide through he wall, push a hanging costume and leave it swinging backwards and forwards."

Employee Will Evans (19), from Plover Grove, Birchwood, Lincoln, has experienced spooky goings-on.

"One day I took my sister Kiah (five) up to the top floor, then nipped down again for something," he said.

"She started really, really screaming. I rushed back up and she was staring into space.

"Back downstairs, she said she had seen two children."

The ghostly figures were wearing Victorian garments.

The Smiths may be shaken, but they are not stirred to take action.

Mrs Smith said the "intruders" are mischievous, rather than anything else.

For more spooky stories, see Saturday's Echo, if you dare.