Dan Aykroyd

'Ghostbusters' star Dan Aykroyd was haunted by “three S-shaped spirits” which made him flee his family’s farmhouse in terror.

The 71-year-old actor’s family held seances at the property in Ontario for generations as his great-grandfather was a renowned spiritualist.

His telephone engineer grandfather investigated the possibility of contacting the dead via radio technology and his father Samuel Aykroyd published books on the history of the supernatural.

Dan was inspired to create the 1984 comedy from his visits to the house, but one stay left him and a friend running in pure fear.