There can be plenty of mysterious goings on after a lengthy night at a pub. But the owners of one West drinking hole have decided there have been one too many bumps in the night - and called in the ghostbusters. At the historic Dick Whittington's in Gloucester, landlord Rob Owen yesterday revealed he fears the pub's more than 600 years of history is not resting in peace.Furniture has been shifted around the building, a "hunched figure" is walking the cellars and lights appear floating over the bar. Now the owners are convinced it cannot be explained away by coincidence or one too many pints.So paranormal investigators will soon be spending a night on the haunted site to get to the bottom of the riddle of the pub on Westgate Street.This street is renowned for its spectres and ghouls, and it is not the first time the Dick Whittington's, which occupies a medieval building, has been plagued.When it was being renovated 30 years ago, workmen downed tools and fled after seeing a figure wearing a flat cap.Although Mr Owen says he is quite happy with a little haunting, and any ghouls are welcome to stay - he just wants to get to the bottom of the mystery.And after the most recent bizarre happening in the cellar bar, he wants to know who is there."I asked the barman to stack a couple of chairs to block the doors so that no one could help themselves from the bar," he said."He came back up and told me that he had done it and headed off home." When Rob entered the bar later he discovered there was nothing blocking the doors. The furniture had been moved.It is the latest spooking in recent weeks to affect the 15th-century building.Rob said his daughter Deborah Bolton, who holds the licence with husband Bob, saw a hunchbacked figure in the cellar.And, a few weeks ago, mysterious lights have appeared on photographs taken above the spot where one of the regulars who died recently used to sit, he said.

"If there is anything there, and I have no reason to believe there isn't, they are friendly. I am quite happy with them as they are." But Rob said he would think twice about blocking the doorway to the cellar bar to not antagonise whatever may have moved the furniture."If I do it now it might wind them up and they might start throwing things," he said.Ghostbuster Lyn Cinderey, a member of the recently-formed Paranormal Investigation Research Team, said she was hoping the group would soon carry out its own overnight investigation at the historic pub.

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