Hugh Grant believes he has seen a ghost

Hugh Grant believes he has seen a ghost.

The ‘Heretic’ actor – who has John, 12, Lulu, eight, and six-year-old Blue with wife Anna Eberstein, and Tabitha, 13, and 11-year-old Felix with former partner Tinglan Hong – recalled seeing a mysterious “shimmering light” in the middle of the night while staying in an English castle, only to be told by the owner the following day that everyone was aware of the supernatural presence.

He told Britain’s HELLO! magazine: “I did see a ghost once.

“I was in a castle in the North of England and had a fight with my girlfriend in the middle of the night.

"She ran out of the room into the depths of the castle and I went out to see where she had gone.

“I stood on the landing at the top of the stairs and suddenly, at my feet, just on the floor, there was a white shimmering light around my feet.

“Then it went through me, down the corridor, through a wall into the main bedroom.

“The next morning, I said to the woman who owned the castle that I’d seen this thing and she said, ‘I know – it’s up there the whole time.’

“It was known as the Third Duchess or something.

“Looking back, it was the pattern that one of those big old dresses with a bustle would have made on the floor.

“I saw it – and I wasn’t drunk.”