Living nightmare

Teresa Andrews, 59, from Harrow, Middlesex

As a child, my mum filled my head with ghost stories. She believed in the afterlife and even had a strange paranormal experience in Portobello Market, London when she saw her own dead mother.

‘My mum, your gran, tapped me on the shoulder one busy Saturday afternoon and said, ‘You’ve wasted your life,” she told me when I was 12 years old.

My mum was then 35 years old and her own mother, Margaret, had been dead for over 10 years. She’d died from tuberculosis.

‘Your gran was as solid as you are now,’ Mum said as I listened, eyes wide. ‘After Gran had