Top 10 Most Common Places To Experience Paranormal Activity

With so many people convinced that ghosts are real, new research has found that the most likely locations for these close encounters were found to be in the house, at a hotel, in an abandoned building or even in a hospital.

The research found that only one in seven adults have been either ghost hunting or on a ghost walk during their lives and one in five believe you're more likely to experience something paranormal in the country instead of the city.

Some had witnessed doors slamming, moving objects, and one made contact with the dead through the use of an ouija board.

A spooks-woman for Ripley's Believe it or Not! London which commissioned the study, said "ghost stories are so popular now that even if you're not a 'believer' you're likely to find them entertaining, especially around this time of the year. We love people sharing their unusual experiences with us as after all, we are the home of the unbelievable!"

Often one of the oldest buildings in any town, they're steeped in history and the heart of the community so it's no surprise they accumulate their fair share of ghost stories.

Stockrooms, store rooms and warehouses can be dark a lonely places and when packed full of boxes there can be some pretty unnerving shadows and plenty of dark corners for spooks to lurk in.

Shops, stores and markets are one of the ten places where people have reported seeing ghosts most frequently.

Guesthouses and inns are usually old buildings, often old farmhouses or pubs which open their doors to visitors and it seems that while many have spent the night they've played witness to bumps in the night.

Most parkland is ancient and relatively unchanged, there's often plenty of stories of grisly events from the past that have happened in parks and it seems many of those events come back to haunted us in the present day.

From classrooms to old outbuildings and never ending corridors, schools can be a foreboding place and they're a common location for ghost sightings.

When so much pain, suffering and death under one roof, it's no surprise that so many people report seeing ghosts in hospitals.

Derelict building can be very creepy, doors banging in the wind, broken doors and eerie shadows. Abandoned buildings are commonly said to be haunted.

Perhaps it's that people are uneasy in an unfamiliar bed but hotel, especially older buildings, are said to be one of the locations where most haunting happen.

While hotels, inns, hospital and other building might be responsible for ghosting sightings, it's haunted house where most people report the most paranormal activity. Houses come out on top of the list of places where people encounter the most spooky happenings.